~upon this good day's end~

And so from our new life along the Red River, greetings dear friends and family from Burkburnett, Texas.  We are alive and well and making use of the wonderful wi-fi connection here at McDonald's while we enjoy an ice cream cone at the end of this good Sunday.  The internet cannot be connected until Wednesday and so until then we make do as we can and one thing I have learned for sure from this weeklong moving experience.

The Renfro Family does not have to have an internet connection, a stove and refrigerator, hot water, or a sliding glass door that works properly in order to survive.  We only thought that we did.

Little by little things are getting taken care of here in our new house.  The refrigerator was delivered this morning and the new stove will find its way into our kitchen tomorrow.  Mike worked hard and got the back door fixed today so that it properly closes and after two days of not having hot water, we now can enjoy all of the warm showers that we want.  We don't have a washer and dryer yet but there is a nice laundromat in town and the coin jar in the kitchen has quarters aplenty.  Our life is good, more than likely better than 95% of the world's population.  Even in times of "organized chaos" we feel most blessed.

We have learned so much in the few days that we have been here about this community and the people that live within it.  Every single person that we have met has been absolutely kind and caring. They hold the door for people here, they look at you and smile when they say "Good morning.  How are y'all doing?", and they go out of their way to be of help to folks they know and strangers too.  We opened up an account at the local bank yesterday and the nice lady who took care of us talked with us as if she had known us all of our lives.  Today when we took our groceries to the car after visiting the local supermarket, one of the young men working there yelled across the parking lot to me, telling me to leave the cart right where it was.  He was on his way to get it.

Yesterday we got the chance to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Altus, Oklahoma.  They are just up the road a ways from here and how wonderful it was to be able to just drive up there and visit for the better part of the day.  It was weird to walk into her house and realize that we had both dressed alike.  Sherry and I will always be "Kansas girls" in our hearts and I guess the shirts that we chose for our Saturday attire reflected that.

There is much to do here still but we will make it, one step at a time.  One week ago today we pulled out of our old driveway in Montrose, loaded down and headed to the southeast.  We had no clue what would lie ahead of us and perhaps that was a good thing.  Each day that has passed we have made good progress and for that we are most thankful.  God continues to bless us.

This is the day's end and soon the sun will set here along the plains of northern Texas.  I am thinking of you all this night, especially the good people we left behind in southwestern Colorado.  Mike and I want you to know that we are fine and doing pretty well.  Kansas and Colorado are not the same as Texas but then they were never meant to be.  There is plenty of "good" here and each day we intend to look for it.  We are not afraid.

May this night bring you all a peaceful rest dear friends and family.  We carry all of you in our hearts.