beautress
Always Faithful
- Sep 28, 2018
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This may sound crazy to you, but years ago, we visited my husband's mom and dad's, and she showed me her volume on my dear one's baby pictures. One snowy day when he was a tot, their neighbor, a photographer for the Chicago newspaper, saw him on the porch with a pail he was filling with snow, so he could "save" some for another day. Somehow, this got into the paper, and his mom saved the picture that had a caption about teaching children young how to encourage "savings." Funny how that followed him for a life time, so he started saving money at an early age, nickel by nickel and later put himself through college with investments he made in the stock market, for which I'm sure his father had something to do with. He saved what he could after the church treasurer put a clip in the church bulletin about the average giving practices of all members (no names included,) so the family decided to take that percentage and give from their earnings (and his) so the church could continue on. Things didn't change after he married me. A certain percentage was saved for old age, and although my family never savers, when he retired, he has saved enough that with the sale of our house, we could buy a country place to retire on, considering the population of the state of Wyoming was around 50 thousand people in the whole state, and our move to warm Texas was to share the state with then 18 million people, and after the waves of recent migrations that emptied Central America and Mexico of the contents of their prisons and cartel profiteers is who knows how many, but surely, a lot more people. But we were north of the big population center in Houston and south of the big population center in Ft. Worth-Dallas, and happily for me there was a quilt store in this town and 4 or 5 more in a 50-mile radius. And sew on... I added another row to my recent charity quilt last night. In orage and lime green, which seems to be everywhere online lately. Different color combinations seem to change each year after the fabric companies have their show-off week in any given Las Vegas convention center for nationwide providers. Wow. The colors are getting more illumined every year...Me too. When I found my place here I was the happiest camper in the world, and I still love my home, and I had "thrown out the anchor" because I never wanted to move again. But here I am, thinking about it, and just because of the state of things here. There are huge problems with moving though, like not getting enough money for my home, and the price of homes where I would like to go selling for $500 to $750 a square foot, it's insane. So the chances of me moving any time soon are pretty slim, even if I want to, I'm not going to take a huge lose here and have to finance a huge chunk on a new home and have a mortgage with a massive, sky high interest rate. That just isn't going to happen.