Discovered the challenge through Clew’s Blues blog and thought I might try it. Doing it unofficially because there are over 1000 people doing it and I choose not to do a linky-log thingy with that many links to it. So, each day I write for this challenge I will simply give you a link to the A to Z home and let you choose whether or not to go there to read. Deal? Deal.
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The idea is to write something every day but Sundays (see I’ve already broken a rule) thus writing 26 days on the letters of the alphabet. I need to catch up on some days: A and B (Friday and Saturday)
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A: Alaska
Hubby and I moved to Alaska in 1978 – we were not yet 30, had two young daughters (3 and 8) and needed to get away from the BIG city of Columbus, Ohio. His mother had moved to the Atlanta, GA area and my mother had passed away five years previously.
We still had some kin around – cousins and such – but it was time for us to move on to become adults.
We attended a small church there – which hosted “home missionaries” from Alaska often. One of them sold us – hook, line and sinker – on Alaska. He always brought gorgeous pictures of scenery, including shots of water, mountains, fishing, wildlife . . . ALASKA with all capital letters.
We knew it was the right move to make when we were able to sell our moderately large home,all of the furnishings and two vehicles with little to no advertising . . . in TWO WEEKS!
It was a GOD thang!
A job as winter caretakers for a Kenai fish packing company was arranged for hubby by the missionary pastor. Hubby was hired over the phone without an in-person meeting. The owner even purchased hubby’s airplane ticket because we hadn’t closed on the Columbus house yet and had no money.
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