Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Good thing we have friendly neighbors!

Our first night in the house we actually own wasn’t much different. A man came to set up the internet, but his PC crashed while he was here and he couldn’t finish the install. He has sheep that are ‘lambing’ right now, so if everything is going well with the sheep he will be back on Thursday to set us up. With the internet I’ll be updating the blog more often, and we’re planning to get a Vonage home phone. All very exciting.

When we got home yesterday we realized that the 40 mile per hour wind had picked up some of the walls of the former chicken coop and flipped them into the neighbor’s yard. The walls, made of dense wood with metal poles tying it together, were almost too heavy for Stephan and I to flip over. The wind did it in seconds. The bags of garbage we’d packed Monday with stuff from the inside of the coop had opened up and were basically just gone. Stephan ran around the town trying to pick up the garbage, but I think Canada will be the owner of some trash in a day or so.

The fun news from this morning was that Stephan had left the keys in the cars last night, and the battery was dead this morning. Stephan hitched a ride from another nurse, and if you’re reading this, it means that I found someone to jump the car so I could get into town. That’s what I’m hoping for!

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