Windows and doors opening everywhere!!!

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Now, what's a girl to do? Tom didn't go into work today. The reason being, today was supposed to be moving day #1. So, we get up after having a good night's sleep, and we are just a scrubbin' floors and walls and cabinets to beat the band. I mean, this place is sparkling! Mmmmm...and it smells so good! Who wouldn't want to live here? Around 6pm. we start getting a little hungry, but by this time, I am in no mood to cook. So, Tom says he's in the mood for a pizza and heads out the door to Papa s. While he is gone, I go upstairs to check on a load of laundry I have drying in the dryer. My landlady "G" is in the kitchen, so I stop to have a few words with her. She says, "Val, how are things going? Feeling any better?" I say, Miss G., I'm doing a lot better now. Just have a little congestion but the flu seems to be gone. Then we share a few more

pleasantries. I go check on the clothes and on my way back downstairs, "G" says, "Hey Val, what's going on with the moving? Have you all decided when you're leaving?" Well, she must have forgotten our conversation a couple of weeks ago when I told her we'd be out between the 16th and the 1st. So, I told her that we would be out this weekend. Oh my goodness!! You should have seen her!! The poor woman stood there and her eyes got real big and they started watering up and then it was BOO HOO HOO HOO!! I felt so bad! Here, this whole time that we've been here, I was thinking of what a huge burden we must be on this poor woman. She's getting ready to lose her home, she's not working. She just quit singing with the trio that she was with, and she's got all these things coming against her. But, that's just like me. The thought of me being a burden on anyone is too much for me to bear. I really thought we were

doing her a big favor to have found a place so quickly and to be out of her hair. Now her electricity bill will go down, and she won't have to worry about us being in her home using things up. I really thought this would be a good thing for her. She let me know that that's not what she wants at all. She admitted to me that she's scared to be left all alone with all these things coming against her. She practically begged us to stay a little longer. It is now my understanding that she's hoping to take over some other property that she owns. Another house, not much smaller than this one, but the mortgage is less than half of what she's paying here. She was hoping that if she gets to move into that home, we would be moving with her. In stead of it being a 6 bdrm., 5.5 bathroom, she'd be down-sizing to a 4 bdrm, 3.5 bathroom. So, now here we are. I felt so terrible for leaving her that as soon as Tom

returned, I told him what G. had told me. Now, we are being blessed all over the place. Windows and doors opening up all over! My problem is this. I don't want to leave G. She has been so good to us and has been such a blessing. But, Tom has made an agreement with P. to go live on his ranch and help him out. What to do? What to do? So, this is what we've decided to do. And I pray it works. I told G. that we wouldn't move until we found out for sure what was going to happen with her. Tom says he's going to call P. in the morning and tell him that we can't move yet, but to hold on to our rent every month as if we are living there, and he will go to the ranch every Saturday and Sunday to help him out. How in the world could we turn our backs on the two sole people in our lives that have done so much for us? And just three months ago, these people were total strangers to us? They've done more for us

in these last few weeks than most of my family has done in my whole entire life! I just can't leave without blessing these people in return. I wouldn't be able to go on and pay it forward. Okay...so that's where things stand for now. I'll know a lot more tomorrow. There is one thing I'd like to say though. After this weekend, I do not know when I'll be back on line again. Before I had the talk with G., Tom had already called the telephone company to have our service cut off Monday morning. So, I may have to go back to using G's computer again. And the way I am about using other people's things, I may not be on line but one or two days a week. Just thought I'd let you all know. Love you bunches and bunches... ValLove and blessings... Val <*)))>< http://www.happytrailsfarm.us Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. ~Quentin Crisp~

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