Our home

Here are a few photos of our new house. We are renting from Living Hope Native Ministries and living in their guesthouse. (Or, as people from my parents' generation may remember it, the Howie House.) The house is a duplex with large guestrooms upstairs. The duplex connects through an inside hallway. That hallway is also how you get up to the guestrooms. The mission has groups that come through (mostly during the summer) on their way out to a reserve to teach Bible School. Also, workers from reserves sometimes use the guesthouse when they are passing through. Part of the rental agreement is that we will be responsible for hosting the groups. That means cleaning and laundry and sometimes cooking.

The house is in a very nice setting. Lots of yard and trees. (Kendall and I mowed the lots of yard last week. It took us about 4 hours with a pushmower- supposedly self-propelled.) We are right up the hill from the grocery store. We have neighbors next door, but can't hardly see their house because of the trees between us. We cut across their back yard to walk to church. Then bank and another store are right below us. (And, more annoyingly, a fastfood-type restaurant that always smells so good.)

When you are looking at the house, we are living on the left side.

And since Kendall's lovely truck is included in the photo, I just have to also include this quote from my Mom: She was pointing out Kendall’s truck to some visitors here: “That’s Kendall’s truck, the blue one by the dumpster.” All that was left unsaid in that comment strikes me as so funny. I thought some of you might enjoy it too.