OFFICIALLY TICKED OFF WITH TECHNOLOGY!!!!

Written.... Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2012

First: my phone will not pick up a signal today for whatever reason. I’ve tried turning the phone off, pulling the battery, waiting, then turning the phone back on again... in multiple locations throughout the house and even outside!  Again!?! Really???? This is the third day in a row of having that damned ‘searching’ message showing in the upper left hand corner of the screen! “Searching”... “Yea? Really? Well, You don’t seem to be finding anything you....”, “ Well I’m gonna be ‘searching’ all right... SEARCHING FOR ANOTHER PHONE COMPANY!!!!

Second: I’m stranded with NO WHEELS... this is going on like WEEK #3 NOW!!! I’m ok with that... it’s not like I have any place else to go anyways... and I have not money or even an allowance to do diddly. 

Third: We are without internet until Friday. I said to MC: “Well, not having the internet for a week might be a good trial run to see how we would fair if we weren’t able to have internet. Seeing as how we have so many other things we should be doing around here anyway.” And to boot: I couldn’t get the internet up & running even if I wanted to... now that I’m without a phone. 

So I’m OK with all of this ... so far... I can manage this:

No wheels, no phone, no internet, 

NO CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD WHAT SO EVER! 

No worries! No Problem!

I have a dog and I can defend myself it there is an intruder. If I fall down or become deathly sick... I can crawl out to the fence and pray that someone driving by would stop and assist me. (worst case scenario... I’m good... I’m ok with that!!! It’s only 6 hours before “someone-or-two” would be home from work.... I could survive 6 hours... I think.

So... what to do with myself next?

My computer still works... I have a lot of things on my mind that I really need to “get down on paper”... so I started “writing”....

Great!  “this is really great stuff... I’m really on a roll... my grammar is exceptionally well today!.... “ and then BOOOM! OUT OF NO WHERE!!!!

“WHAT?”
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN 
‘PROGRAM UNEXPECTEDLY 
SHUT DOWN’?!!!!” 

{"That's worth FOUR!" as my momma would say when she really wanted 

to be spouting off "four letter words repeatedly---four times!"}

I just lost 2 pages of really great writing because I didn’t SAVE EVERY 5 MINUTES!!!!!

POC!!!! ******* TECHNOLOGY! IT’S REALLY GREAT!!!!! WHEN IT WORKS!!!!!, BUT WHEN IT DOESN’T.... IT DOOOOOESSSSNNNNN’TTTTT AT ALL AND IT REALLLLY TICKS ME OFFFF-AAAA-FFFAAAA!!!!

So I did a GoodSsearch for “When Technology Fails” (click on the blue words to link to that website & learn more!)

{I use GoodSearch.com as much as I can instead of google. It is powered by Yahoo... and every time I search it donates $.01 to my selected charity!}

I guess if I had to... I could pull out the bicycle and ride a mile down the road to the nearest place where there are people and ask to borrow a phone... I can even use the internet THERE!!! But it’s blue *ss cold and windy outside.... why would I want to do that when I have a huge pot of brown beans in the crockpot making the house feel all warm & cozy. 

Now... let me see if I can do any laundry without anything else going wrong!

Oh, but wait... the washer doesn’t have any cold water! 

So unless I want to wash my colors in HOT water and have them all fade or shrink....

I’ve got to go retrieve the garden hose and be “on standby” during the two ‘fill cycles’.  

I can manage THAT! 

The *amn dryer better not break!

“You know you’re a redneck if doing the laundry depends on the weather?” ~Jeff Foxworthy. 

Just another "Adventure in BFE!"

How We Came to BFE. Part I

“I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and danger from false brothers.”  2 Corinthians 11:26

Urbania USA. Their Ain't No Pot-O-Gold!

HAS IT BEEN 2 YEARS ALREADY?

It’s that time of year again. The first Saturday of October for the past two years, the owners “fly home” to see their family and to inspect THEIR property (aka: BFE). It may be “their property,” but it’s “my home” and lucky for us the owners see it that way too!  I can’t help but think to myself that when they come for their annual visit (and spend hours ‘chatting’) that they are glad to have renters who love this place as much as they used to when they were younger. Not that they are “old”, but it’s just that they are a tad older that us.

IN THE BEGINNING:

Two years ago after only being married for a little over a year, my husband and I decided that we no longer wanted to live “in the city”. We had lived in "Urbania USA” all our lives in one way shape or form.  Always within several miles from a grocery store or gas station, and usually within several hundred feet (10-20 feet in most subdivisions) of our neighbors. Now this was great when we were raising our children because we could open the front door and say “go play” and they would be gone for hours at a time. (and YES.... neighborhoods like THAT still existed 10 years ago, and may still for as much as I know in Idaho.)  But in a very short period of time we saw some of those neighborhoods who were clean and alive with ‘play’ became dirty and lifeless. 

THE CHANGE:

When the housing bubble burst in 2008, a lot of homes in the subdivision became vacant and fell into disarray. Graffiti began to appear on the fences and sidewalks and there was a drug busts just down the street.  “TIME TO HEAD FOR HIGHER GROUND!” my husband announced. And so the search began: To relocate “some place else.”

THE SEARCH:

As the dutiful wife (not always, but this was an area of which I seem to have excelled in my life... I’ve moved over 40x - and finding new places to live is like finding a new store to go shopping in... always adventurous!) 

I began an internet search of rental properties close to where we were currently resided and spread out from there. (at this point you are probably wondering ‘why rent?’ when “You own your own home, right?!”  Well thats another story for another day... I can’t get sidetracked now.... “sidetrack” is my middle name... which is better than “I want.” A title given to me in my younger years.) OK... where was I: Yea... I was house hunting. 

THE REQUST:

My parameters were very clear: House, Garage, at least 3 bedroom, NOT in a subdivision, preferably “out of the way”, “off the beaten path”, with some flat property to grow a garden. All of this for the wonderful monthly rental fee of....... well not much.  After further research.... for about as much as you could rent a two bedroom apartment in town. Not very promising, right?

THE DISMAY:

Our prospects of finding a house in this price range was almost null. I began to loose any hope of finding a way to exodus our situation.  At the end of each day the hubby would ask me to share the results of my daily search. We had both become discouraged about our prospects.  Things I liked about a place, he didn’t like and visa-versa. We had only ventured out once before to look at a rental property and it was a ‘shared space’ which did not appeal to either of us. I was feeling defeated and trapped by our circumstances. It seemed as though we were “trapped in Urbania!”

Dunt Dun Daaaa.....

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Daisy Mae Wants to Know: What was the catalyst that caused you and your family to want to relocate to BFE?

Maybe you know someone else who has “lost their mind” and “move to BFE”.  

Please share what you think their reasons could have been. What is your opinion of their ‘move’?