Two Weeks In Idaho - Update

Our "Home-Sweet-Home" During Building Project

 

We have been in Idaho for a little over two weeks.

 

Every day so far, the weather has been warm and sunny with temps in the 80's and 90's in the afternoon (but no humidity, so it feels very comfortable), and it cools down to lower temps in the evening and mornings.  Below are some photos that I took of the property and the beginning of the digging to install the septic system/electrical lines/phone lines, and today (Sept. 6th, 2012) the plumber and Council Construction were out to run the water lines from the well to the shop and house.

Things are progressing.  We should have our land line phone by Monday morning.

 

 

 

You may notice that the sky looks smokey in the above photos.  That is because our first week here, the skys really were smoky from fires in Oregon and Eastern Idaho.  We saw some burned areas.  It is very, very dry out here.  They have not had rain in over two months.  So while we do not have any humidity, it is super dry and DUSTY. 

 

ADJUSTING TO LIFE IN IDAHO:

 

We are fairly certain that we've found our new church:  Cambridge Bible Church.

It is the closest church to our home, and the people are super nice and friendly.  Pastor Roger is also very kind, and welcoming/Pastoral and his preaching these past two weeks has been very good!  His preaching style is a solid, Biblical expository style, and he throws in lots of helpful historical detail and makes great life application points...so we really do like his preaching style. I think that he is in his 60's (?).  He extends sincere interest in his flock.  I like the way he relates and interacts with his people.  And I like the way he attempted to locate our new home site from the visitor log after our first week, and he remembered our names and asked us follow-up questions the following week.  It's awesome to connect with the body of Christ 2500 miles from our PA home.

 

I've been doing lots of driving and exploring to see where the shopping is etc.  Ha. Ha.

I even took Kelby to an agility training class on Tuesday night.  It was great!  I signed up for an AKC agility dog show in Boise on October 12th & 13th.  I'll be taking her back to QQuest training classes so that we'll be ready to show.

 

Our neighbors had us over for dinner last Monday, August 27th.  It was very kind of them and it was wonderful to get to know the new neighbors.  (Sharon and Arnie Pederson and Ed & Irene Hargus(?) I'm not sure about that last name. )

I'm going for a walk with Sharon tomorrow morning. 

 

On Labor Day Monday, Bryan and I went for a long (12 mile) ride on the Weiser Trail.  Beautiful!

But I realized as we were on that bike ride that I am actually more "city-fied" than I thought I was. 

We came across a lot of varieties of birds and the signs of other wildlife were all over the trail.  Plus, since this is a "free range" state, cattle roam where they wish and so there are lots of cattle gates along the trail.  Some ranches are probably fencing their cattle in...but some ranches are probably fencing cattle out.  We rode right up to several herds of cows and it was a little too close for my comfort.  I am not accustomed to being in close proximity to such large beasts where we are sharing the same trail with no fence between us.  Yikes!  Plus there was tons of what Bryan thought was bear scat on the trail as well.  It's one thing to enjoy seeing a bear cross the road in front of my car.  It's entirely another matter to contemplate a bear walking out in front of my bicycle.  So, I have some fears to work through when it comes to walking and biking by myself in the heart of the wildlife's homeland.  Now I really do need to get comfortable with my handgun.  It will be prudent to carry it on those walks & bike rides.

 

I'll post more pictures and updates on our building project progress soon.

 

Take Care All.

Love and Miss Ya, and I look forward to seeing everyone towards the end of October.