Samantha’s been in the store for almost a whole month yet she only has 19 views. That’s pitiful.

Anyway, my keyboard already has a bid (just the opening bid), and the cage is already up to $11.

We got the tube, book lot and doll payment, so now we’re just waiting on Barbie, incense, cage and software payments.

No Mary mail today. I’d say she’s definitely hesitant to write what with the pending move. Or maybe she just hasn’t been in the mood. Because she tends to write in spurts anyway, I’m not worried about it. I’ll still keep sending letters out on Mondays as I usually do.

Huey called this morning to say he still hasn’t been able to get any info but will have it soon. See, he’s overconfident, just like Tom said. The info is not going to be easy to get, but when he does get it, will he be afraid to commit if the numbers are too high? That’s what worries us most; that he’s getting his hopes up for too low of a price.

Anyway, Tom still hasn’t called Miss Perfect because he’d kind of like to have a little more to tell her. We’re hoping this will be by tomorrow night.

Later…

Tom decided to finally break the news to Miss Perfect and company as far as us losing the house and going to Oregon. He spoke to both her and Ma. He thinks she’ll buy us an RV which is what we want more than a trailer or a U-Haul. It costs about the same as a small old used trailer – about two grand. I don’t think she’ll buy it, though, because we’ve needed so much money from her as it is since we came here.

They’ve been having their share of troubles, too. Ma had a couple more patches of skin treated that were cancerous, Dave’s father died, and Mary’s sick all the time, as usual. Our sisters are the same in that department with the only difference being that Mary’s illnesses are quite real and not made up or exaggerated. However, in light of my sister leading the pigs to our door and discovering the warrant out on me, I’m sure that’s all changed and that her problems have since been very real indeed.

I guess Huey will either call or stop by tomorrow. He has some houses selling real soon and says we’ll be paid on May 7th. I just hope he doesn’t back out on us in the end. As soon as we’re paid is when we start selling off the big things and basically getting rid of whatever we don’t want to take with us and packing the rest. We’ll probably do a weekend moving sale and whatever doesn’t sell on Saturday will be offered for free on Sunday. Once everything’s gone that we don’t want, then all that’ll be left to do at that point will be to get the RV and load it up.

We still don’t know if we’ll bid on land up front or see about talking to landowners there, let them know we’re coming, and hope to set up a meeting so they can take us to whatever land they may have. We don’t want to be committed to something sight unseen that we may not like.

Tom and I went outside and did some visual measurements of what a 2-acre property would be like. It’s really not all that small when you consider that it’s going to be in a forest. I’d hate to have a lot that small here what with how open it is and the general outdoorsy lifestyle people and dogs have here, but I think a lot that size in Oregon will be ok so long as it’s got some serious trees on it.

Again, I don’t know if I’m looking forward to the cold, but if it’ll keep neighbors from keeping barking dogs outside constantly, then it just might be worth it. They might throw them outside in the summer, but I wouldn’t think they would do that year-round. Because we’ll be able to afford to keep the house warmer than we did during the winters here since we’ll be generating our own electricity, and since I won’t have to play bus in it, the cold shouldn’t be as hard to deal with as it was back east.

I really have a feeling life will be better for us there overall. I feel so sure of it and that everything will work out there and we’ll achieve our goals, as naïve as that may sound. Perhaps it’s just wishful thinking and I should stick to my pessimistic attitude, but for the first time, I’m breaking my rule of always assuming the worst or at least nothing positive.

It’s so cool that we can move and not have to worry about moving the store, too. It automatically moves with us!