Great Adventures

It´s true, I´ve learned, that you don´t have to go very far from home to have a great adventure. After about 5 trips, including Beto carrying a LOT of stuff on his moto, we are fully moved into the house. Now, to organize. We are very blessed with many great friends that helped us with their pickups. The house is only about a 8 min.drive from where we were before but it feels like we moved farther away. It feels more out in the country. Most houses here are surrounded by cementblock walls but in front of our house there is a very large piece of empty property where the cows graze. we are thinking about inviting them (cows) over to eat (the grass) which would also provide a free lawnmowing service. It´s a win'win situation. Yesterday Beto and I were in the old apt. cleaning and painting all morning, so of course when we were ready to leave at about 3pm it started to pour. We waited about an hour but it just wouldn´t let up so finally we had to go. We were so soaked, Beto on his moto and I on his bicycle. At first I was really annoyed and then i decided not to fight it and embrace the rain and mud and then it wasn´t so bad. We decided to do some shopping since we were already wet and dirty so we´d have some food in the house and when we finally arrived it was like we´d been on some famous water ride the likes of which I can´t remember any names right now for the life of me.

Concerning the house, I didn´t like it when we first saw it but loved it when we first moved in, then didn´t like it again when the roof leaked really bad in one room. The landlady and her family are great though! They live close and when the lights wouldn´t work the first night she came and just had us flip the breakers a few times, and voila! The house hadn´t been rented in awhile so the breakers were just a little sleepy. She came with her husband, daughter, and grandson last night and he, (Armando the husband and the little boy) crawled up into the rafters and found the leaky roof problem and fixed it. Today he came to fix another light that had one of those long tubular lights and put in a bulb. They are great people and last night we got to share with them what God has done in our lives, how we met and how He brought us here to La Esperanza and what we´re doing now. We had a great time laughing and talking.

At first mateo didn´t like the new house. He cried alot for his old place, butnow he loves it and has a lot of fun running around in the big yard getting really dirty.

Those are ¨Before¨pictures...before we organize. We have the kitchen, dining room, living room, our bedroom, the soon to be office, the soon to be TV-game room, the ¨bodega¨(storage), and bathroom. this morning when i walked into the bathroom we had another flood, from the leaking toilet, but beto fixed it! The bathroom reminds me of my late great'aunt´s house in Oregon, her little cabin in the woods.