Plan B includes continuing the land search.  Secondly, it is time to consider modifying the “new” home depot building transformation to a new little home.

My plan is still to transform something into a little house, so first comes the land.  A little house has to sit on land!

Presently, there are three areas I am considering.  They include Sevier County and Knox county.  I am looking for bargains.  A bargain will be measured by price, location and amenities already there.

Also,  the property needs to be rural in order to avoid some building restrictions.

Places to look for a bargain include the local newspaper, word of mouth at local restaurants and churches and for sale by owner signs.

 

Sunday was a day to rest and worship when I was growing up.  Now, it seems very few people can honor one day in silence and rest.

For the six days God instructed us to work, a me day should be included.  That day is the day you take care of all personal business and shopping, everything that isn’t work to produce an income.

It is my centered intention to change my lifestyle to give one day to God, completely without focus on what I consider to be pressing agenda.

Are you willing to dedicate one day to God?

Love to all my readers….

 

This year I have lived in Oregon, South Carolina, Florida and now back to Tennessee.

Tennessee is home.  Not really though.  I still don’t feel like I fit.  I don’t feel like I am home.

I want to be where Joel Olsteen’s father described when he wrote the little book,  “A Place Called There.”

Sevierville, Tennessee may be There.  I am not There yet.  Maybe next week will present an opportunity to live in  Sevierville.

In the meantime I am reading the book, “Can’t Go Home Again” by Thomas Wolfe.

Eventually, I will find There!  How do you find the tangible location to call home?

 

T

I have a gift from a lady blessed with the ministry of poetry.  She gave me this framed devotional revealed to her for me about 2 years ago and it is so appropriate and timely for my project.  I will share one stanza each week.

Entitled:  He Got Up:  (Christ Arose!) “In Order to trust, step out and release.  Confront the very thing that disturbs your peace.  Release the heartache, release the rage, God’s got your platform, don’t let the devil set the stage.  Come out of your comfort zone, stop being a bird in a cage.  Release!  Cause He got up!’

Tennessee is my home destination.  I am now assessing the financial opportunities to make this happen.

During the last two months I had had 2 very temporary positions with an hourly paid salary.  That doesn’t get me where I want to be !  My goal for the next week is to commit to work that will result in the money I need to pay consumer debt, provide a temporary home and save for the little house.

I have decided that for one year I will have a temporary home.  This home will be a fraction of the normal monthly rent.   Join me Monday to learn how to do this if you are interested.

Join me in my search for the money cow!

 

Greeted yesterday with a Hurricane warning for our area.

This greeting brought to the surface of my dream that a conventional home definitely anchored to a foundation is more to my liking!

So, it’s time to check out the market stores for conventional little houses.

How about this one?http://realestate.msn.com/blogs/listedblogpost.aspx?post=0a365da2-70d4-40c8-8723-107e7523bb48&gt1=35013 Could you live in 78 square feet?  It is an apartment in New York and the cost is $800.00 per month for rent.

Eight Hundred Dollars each month would be a big investement toward the completion of a little house with big features.  This apartment definitely goes in our shopping cart for future comparison for living large in  a little space for little money.

With each house in my shopping  cart, we will  look at the yearly investment for the cost of living in that space.  We will also check out the location, common income and some other considerations. This one is earmarked for budget day in my book!

On budget days we will go through the cart and apply all good things to the little house.

I greet this day with love in my heart.

The Fourth is an extra special  day, as it is significant of independence and freedom!

In America we have freedom to worship, freedom to speak and freedom to dream.   Freedom applies as an individual word that blends with love.  How do you choose your freedom?

Today, I am reminded, I have a choice regarding where I live.  For today, I am happy to be in Seaside, Oregon.

My dream includes a future move back to the South and a shift in my lifestyle living.

Enjoy this day!

Until next time,

Molinda

I wish you a merry Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

What  would it take to make you Merry and Happy this Christmas?

It seems the the broadcast is as follows:  We, the news reporters, interrupt your life with the following Bulletin:

Here comes slew foot here comes slew foot right down slew foot lane, He’s got a bag and it’s filled with sorrow to mess with your mind again…..

Bills are a past due, Gifts are worrying you,  What a pitiful site…..  Collectors saying  Yes you are Paying,    Old Slew foot comes tonight.

Don’t let the cares of this world mess with your Christmas.  This is the Celebration for the Birth of Christ.  Renew your mind with happy memories.  Cherish your family and loved ones.

My heart is filled with wonderful memories of my Mom and Dad….lots of food and company, always gifts for those not as fortunate as we were.  My mother would go to the orphanage and take clothes, powder and cosmetics  for 3 girls there.  Then, she would bring one of the girls  home for the Holidays.

Trips to Grandma Asher’s home, where the fireplace crackled with the wood fire, and chestnuts roasting in a iron pot…..my Aunt Martha backed up to the heat in her worn blue jeans that I so envied.

On to Aunt Josies house for Chicken and dumplings……Josie killed the hen, dressed it and cooked it.  Next to my Uncle Kells (who was really my biological dad, and hear the gross stories of how he slaughtered the hog)……….fresh pork for breakfast and sides of ham to go in the smoke house.

We had a Hobo,  who we all called Uncle Steve.  He came every Christmas and slept on a cot in the Smoke House.  Christmas day he joined us at the Dinner Table.  I met a man in Astoria who reminds me of Uncle Steve.  Uncle Steve rode the trains and ironically also left this planet when one ran over him.

Twas the night before Christmas and a Caroling we did go………..Actually, there was Caroling the week before Christmas.  It was sweet to hear the sernade of the Carolers outside.

My favorite guest….Uncle TJ would arrive with laughter, jokes and an appetite for hot peppers………………..

I am not sure I created enough wonderful family memories for my sons.  I pray they will create special memories this year.  By the Grace of God I intend to share love joy and peace this Season…..these items are free.

I am thankful for my sons, Ray Mark and Kris, daughter in laws, Lynne, Sophia, Christiana and Grand children  Sean, Soleil and Eliana.

I am thankful for my health, for the friends and family I have on earth and those gone on who enriched my life.

I am Thankful that I believe that Jesus came to create his Kingdom here on earth, that I have accepted Him as my Christ and Saviour and Celebrate His Birth and Eternal Life during this Season.

Peace and Joy unto you…..Enjoy this season and take it with you for the coming year.  Bake a pan of cookies and give them away!

This has been a year of extreme change for me.  Change is good.

Now, I am like Secretariat and plan to cross that finish line!

Peace and Joy,

Molinda

When my boys were little they loved to play with a yo-yo.   It went down, bounced back, they could yo-yo to each side and finally up in the air.

The yo-yo returned to the point of beginning.

My weight has been like that.  From where I started in January, I have lost, regained, lost to the previous point, regained, now I am at that previous point again.
Today, I am disgusted with the results of the scale.  What should I do to be proactive?

Recently, I applied the law of renewing my mind to driving across a mountain pass.
I said Mind:

• delete the message that I don’t like to drive across the pass,
• insert  I have done this a million times ( I haven’t)
• also,mind, I LOVE to drive the pass.  Well, hmmmmmmmmm,
• I drove to Boise and crossed the pass with no problem.

Now, I am declaring a renewing of my mind to allow my appetite to return to the normal thus allowing my weight to follow.

Me, myself and I are doing well eating Vegan food.  My son, Kris is a participant.

Come along with me,

Molinda