Well it has been a good ride...The last four years in Idaho have been wonderful. It was so nice to get back to freedom loving people and having vertical landscape....Like the 3000 foot mountain in our backyard. ( I never posted pics of those , so no one could pin-point our location. The ability to shoot a weapon off my deck has been a dream come true. Camping hiking, raising a real garden, have animals has been a true blessing. Along with making more money than I ever though possible and working less than 40 hrs a week to boot.
The parent company out sources the facility management functions to a third party company which I work for. The parent company transitioned to a new company four years ago and I got the job as Facility Manager when the old FM stayed with the old FM company and moved back to her home town. I have been doing a great job, at least that's what people say, reducing budgets 35% and even recently got "Energy Star" rating for the building without spending a more than a few thousand dollars. And the place looks great and operates more efficient than when it was built. The new FM company, has decided to bring in their own manager...(someone raised up their hand and said "I want to live near Boise, Idaho" ) and so they are making room , by laying me off. The guy I report to in the parent company is livid....he wanted to try and stop it , but this was a decision made in NYC by people that would never leave the city to visit the unwashed masses.... He has been trying to keep me , but that isn't possible. So today he said..."doesn't look like he can do anything about it" he is losing several good people around the country at other sites.
I have said it before , life isn't fair...
This past week has been like a punch to the stomach and I have been a little stressed out...no I don't have deep pockets and don't have a large bank account. Have we moved so far out into the country that we have slipped thru the cracks and God has forgotten about us? I don't think so. God still knows we need food and health care and have the ability to take care of things so the question what will happen next?
We can't stay here...with no job, even a job paying half would not make sense to stay. And the job market for anything is dismal to say the least.
Well it is time to move to our BOL. Plan A when SHTF....off to Montana...onto a ranch, where we can try to live in a self sufficient manner at least try to.... wondered why God gave us free sheep and chickens , now we will add tending cattle too. The place is out in the country and the nearest neighbor is 2 1/2 miles away on the other side of a ridge. and then a couple more miles to the next nearest...OK with me.
I am hoping to find a job in Helena or Missoula or even have been kicking the idea of a business selling stuff....more about this later
So say a prayer for our family...we do have some debt, $15K, which needs to be paid off and I do need to figure out how to make sure my wife has any medical needs met...( I can use VA and the kids and I can use Indian hospitals , if necessary.) For her I need to figure something out. She takes synthroid and we have a 6 months supply...need more stuff is expensive Plus she has had breast cancer and needs watching.
Interestingly we have always talked about making a run for the MT BOL if SHTF and I keep an eye for the past two years just to see if it is time to run... Doing this would have meant leaving most everything that didn't fit in a Suburban and a 8 x 12 trailer behind. That alway upset the wife and kids cause they knew guns and reloading equipment and camping gear and seeds and survival stuff would be taking up most of the space. SOooo they have been praying that God would work it out that if things went south we would not have to leave things behind....toys, decoration, sewing machines, mementos, furniture etc.
They took this as maybe God way of getting us moved. But they have sensed the stress I have had since last week and knew I wasn't at peace about it nor was I fully taking the way they were. They have been praying for peace for me, the last few days...I didn't know it.
Last night after reading the news, we went on our walk about the property...couple miles every night. And I told them about Chuck Baldwin moving to MT and why...
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=2209 ...and how that made me pause and sense some relief and maybe this was a sign that God was at work. And I was feeling like a weight was being taken off me, and I didn't fell like the wind was knocked out of me.
The wife and kids started to share with me what they had been praying and were excited to hear what I was sharing about Chuck and what he said and his reasoning.
So maybe we haven't slipped off God's radar screen and just maybe he does have plans for us....mind you I still don't know how we will pay for everything, and where money for a business will come from....
But my God is a great God. He has always worked things out for us in amazing ways...we have seen him answer numerous prayers over the years...and we have never been hungry or cold or naked...so while I don't have any idea how things will be a couple of months from now...I do know I am going to not only be in a wonderful place, but in good company...not just the good people here but also Chuck even if he is a couple hundred miles away from us. Just so you know I really haven't followed him, other than voting for him I haven't read more than a dozen of his commentaries. Reading his latest has given me peace about our circumstances.
So any of you MT board members that are on the western side of the state...I may be living closer to you and we all need to get together sometime.
