~and with a library card you can do ANYTHING~

From the city library of Burkburnett, I send greetings to you all.  We are still waiting for an internet connection to happen for us but unfortunately it will be a few days more.  The recent flooding affected a lot of things and the internet service here was one of them.  So in the meantime, we just do what we have to do.  We eat a lot of ice cream at the McDonald's and have now become regulars at the city library.  Free wi-fi has this way of enticing you.  One thing is for sure.

You never think about not having internet services until you do not.
We have been quite spoiled.

Mike and I have kept our noses to the proverbial "grindstone" since arriving here 10 days ago.  There was a whole lot to do in getting our house ready and slowly but surely everything is getting done.  I'm sure thankful that Mike is handing with carpentering issues and he does a pretty good job in making repairs.  One thing I will say about him is that he never gives up.  It's been frustrating for him because all of his tools and shop equipment remain back in Montrose at his good friend Tim's house.  It will be making the journey out here at the end of the month with all of the rest of the stuff that we couldn't bring with us when we came nearly two weeks ago.  Thank goodness for the kindness of our dear friends the Morris Family who are carting everything out here for us in a small moving trailer.  We are so very grateful.

Little by little the house has come together.  Next week a washer/dryer will be delivered from Wichita Falls and the couch that we surely do miss not having will come to us from Lubbock.  The internet is supposed to arrive by early week or so and then maybe things will seem normal.  Surely we are thankful for the AC to be working quite well.  It feels very warm to us by early morning and it doesn't take long for the heat to be felt inside of the house.  Even as hot as it seems to feel right now, folks around here say it's actually cooler than normal.  Last year on this very day, the temperature stood at 106 degrees.  That was the norm for most of the summer's duration.  Their forecast back then consisted of two words.

Hot and dry.

Moving here has been an experience and certainly has had its share of glitches and bumps in the road.  We remain determined to find our way here, to carve out our niche in this place in the land called "Texhoma".  We do not know what to expect.  We only know that whatever it is, that everything that shall happen will be a part of a much greater plan set out before us by someone who knows way more that we do in this life.

Twice today as we were visiting with folks around here, Mike and I were asked where we were from and why on earth we had come here.  The answer to that is becoming more apparent all of the time.

Burkburnett is where we are supposed to be and perhaps for now that is all that we really need to know in the first place.  The best of our days lie before us and in the least of things, we give thanks.

My dear friend from back home in Manhattan, Kansas says that with a library card you can do anything!  Dennis Ulrey, I believe that to be so very true.