How The West Was Won

It has been nearly two weeks since my wife and I made our move to the other side of the state.  It was a wild move.  We moved into a rather rural part of the state where a strong windstorm had swept through nearly a week earlier.  When we moved in... the power was still out at our new place and the temperature outside was hovering right around one-hundred degrees.  Friends helped us load the truck and my dad and his wife helped us unload when we arrived on July 4th.  The whole effort showed us how wonderful our friends and family are.  On both ends we all made quick work of the loading and unloading.  It was a real load off our minds how quickly it all went. 

After a few days without power in the new place, the lights eventually came back on, but I tell you what... it gave us a glimpse... if only a tiny glimpse... of what the pioneers went through.  haha  The pioneers who settled out West did so under much different circumstances and with much less comforts than we did.  But where we moved to has a lot less people than the bustling port city that we left.  Now we are on the outskirts of a little railroad town in the mountains. 

It was actually sort of the fun.  With no power at all and everything being run on electricity... we new that we would need plenty of bottled water... so we stockpiled several gallons before we moved.  The bottled water was fine, but we couldn't waste it on the toilets.  Our neighbor let us use their path to the creek.  I went down to the creek a few times to fill buckets so that we could use the toilets.  That and using the cooler as our refrigerator and the grill for cooking... really kept it feeling like we were camping.  Yup, it was a lot like camping... with four walls and roof... glorified camping.

It really is neat to see a doe and her two fawns walk past the house regularly each afternoon.  We have a variety of birds around the house.  I don't expect we'll see a bear anytime soon, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities.  We really do live in a neat part of the state.  I'll keep you up to date more regularly and will add some photos soon.  Take care and God bless!