February 21
So yesterday I gave the living room hideabed away, and we moved the daybed down from the spare room to take its place. The spare room is turning into storage of packed boxes, ready to go when the time comes.
It’s beautifully sunny out today, but chilly. The temperature still goes down to around -7 to -9 at night and only up to 3 or 4 (Celcius) in the daytrime, so there are still patches of snow piles, and always lots of frost in the morning.
A teacher from one high school came and took half of my daughter’s collection of fashion and teen magazines, and recommended calling a teacher from the other high school to get the others. Also, the stuff out in the gazebo continues to be taken. I am amazed at how quickly things go, really much faster than in the past. Maybe this recession is really hitting people hard.
I picked up several photo boxes at greatly reduced prices – it seems that with digital photos, such necessities are going out of style! I am hoping that by transferring my many photos from the albums to the photo boxes, I’ll be able to greatly decrease the need for storage space (and make moving easier too!).
I watched “Dances With Wolves” again yesterday (on TV) with hubby. Everytime I watch it, I end up wishing we could “go home” (to Haida Gwaii). (On the “Truth” video the other night, the speaker made quite a deal about how the Mayflower Compact gave as a major goal the introduction of Christianity to the Americas… it made me angry, because it didn’t take them long to masssacre whole villages and tribes, even when some members of their own group argued that it wasn’t Christ’s way. That detail wasn’t mentioned in the video…).
I have finished reading So You Don’t Want to Go to Church Anymore book, too… I guess that’s okay, though; You work in so many different, creative ways, Father.
But I really do feel You are moving our family out to something new and different.
I have a growing longing to be with native people again… and the land and ocean too….
Your will be done!
