Enjoying our new home

Our new home - 36 foot Dutchmen Fifth Wheel

Hideabed/back window

Computer Desk

Just thought we would give you a look at our new home. How spacious it is! Paul moved it in for us on Saturday. The plan was for Friday, but we got severely rained out. Thankfully the ground wasn't too wet to back it in on Saturday. Miss Mary kindly helped us move from the motorhome to the new place, and then even vacuumed out the old one for us! She's such a sweetheart.

Our MDS group had a combination housewarming/65th birthday party for Nettie at our place on Sunday evening (pot luck). We even put up an 8' banquet table in our livingroom! We could barely entertain two extra people in our old motorhome!!!

John isn't too happy about the TV reception. We got 6 excellent channels after he bought an exterior antenna for the motorhome. Now we have this big fancy antenna on top of the fifth wheel and have found that the previous owner had cut the cable because he had a dish. We now have to figure out how to reconnect it.

II have been thoroughly enjoying Verna Martens' book which she has just had published last November. It is called "Beyond Our Wildest Dreams - Beginnings in Blue Creek" and chronicles their many years there. She has done an excellent job of writing it and the story is wonderful. It is so neat to personally know her - I can hear her voice speaking as she writes... She had let me read her manuscript last year when it was a "work in progress". She has said she wishes now they had ordered more than 500 copies for the first printing, as she is just about out of them already. They are leaving for Belize in February for a couple of weeks, and I am sure any she has left will be gone.

I am very much enjoying the sound system in our new RV, which I can turn on with the press of a button instead of having to start up the accessories on the RV! John gets to spend evenings in his recliner/rocker, whereas I am mostly sitting at my computer desk with the laptop...

We try and socialize with the rest as often as possible. We will be sorry to see Bert & Doreen Warms, of Winkler, Mb., leave on Thursday, as we have very much enjoyed working and playing with them. If they had not made previous plans to spend a month in Phoenix, and if MDS had room for them here in February, they said they would love to stay and work with us. However, we have new people coming in. Len and Nettie Hiebert from Grunthal, Mb., have made arrangements to stay and we are sure happy to keep them here.

We quit complaining about the rain when we heard they had a foot of snow in P.A. yesterday.

Sure are happy with what we have accomplished here so far. Today John and Paul put some of the flooring in Archie's house. Bert and Len hope to be finished the 66 feet of wheelchair ramp for Leroy's house before he leaves. Leroy's house is Project #3 on the MDS website. I note they haven't published my new pictures on the website yet, although my website update is there.

Hope all goes well with all of you.