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Post by pixydust on Aug 15, 2008 21:15:45 GMT -5
Awesome! Praise God!!! *does the dance of joy* We went through a terrifying move and lost everything (tens of thousands of dollars, the lives of several pets, our house, and our pride). I call it: "My year of adventure and heartbreak." But God always came through. And it was during that horrifying time that I wrote my first book. I wouldn't trade those difficult days for anything.
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Post by Jeff Gerke on Aug 17, 2008 9:08:50 GMT -5
Pixy, that sounds like being displaced by war in a third world country, not a move across the U.S. of A. What happened?
Jeff
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Post by pixydust on Aug 25, 2008 14:24:23 GMT -5
Oh, man. It sure felt like that.
My husband keeps telling me I need to write about it, but I tell him that no one would believe it. I'd definitely need to write it as fiction...lol
It's when we lived in Oregon. I think the only really good thing to come out of that (besides all those wonderful torturous "life lessons") was that I met your David and Sarah at my very first writer's conference in Bend.
We lived fifteen miles from the nearest town out in the boonies of north east Oregon for nine months. That's all it took. Nine months. Nine months to figure out our septic was draining into the well (thank God we'd used the spring instead), our house was infested with black mold and rats and mice, our creek was poisoned, and the state had "fixed" the highway above us so that our yard became a 90 acre lake when it rained. Oh, and the foundation was rotted out so bad it caved in....lol When we tore up the floor to fix it we found an elk carcass under our living room and a few tin cans. Hehehehe...
We should have known when we got a call from one of the neighbors two weeks before we moved out there (after we'd already closed escrow) letting us know that the old owners had taken off and had let out their 50 chickens to be slaughtered by the "left behind" dogs. So our yard looked like a horror movie come to life. Chicken bits everywhere. We were still finding rotting chicken carcass two months later...Blah!
I got to skin my very first bunny rabbit, though. Bonus.
The day the bathroom ceiling caved in on my husband while he was fixing the shower was the day we realized things weren't going to go well with the repairs. I think he threw a hammer through the wall of the barn. He was a little stressed by this point...lol We get a lot of laughs when we look back. And watching The Money Pit with Tom Hanks is now like watching "A Day In The Life Of The Marks Family."
Our marriage is only stronger now, though. And we see that material things really don't matter. We lost so much of that kind of stuff. We feel so blessed that nothing happened to our kids. God was obviously protecting us.
And now we're back in Sunny SoCal, still trying to get back on our financial feet four years later. But God has been so good to us. It's been a crazy few years. I don't think I'd trade the lessons I learned for anything, though.
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Post by torainfor on Aug 25, 2008 16:50:26 GMT -5
You moved from Umatilla-area to SoCal? That alone makes my head hurt.
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Post by Christian Soldier on Aug 27, 2008 5:07:39 GMT -5
First of all, wonderful news Divides, and grats on the job. God willing, you can start moving toward some peace. I know the feeling of forces resisting change, or in my case wanting change.
I can't picture going through what you and Pixie are going/went through. I usually deal with forces that are much easier to see, or at least deal with.
God bless- CS
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Post by pixydust on Aug 30, 2008 2:29:50 GMT -5
Actually I moved from SoCal to Grant County, OR and then back to SoCal. Thanks CS. God gets your through it. As you well know, I'm sure.
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