During the past two weeks I have been relocating to the Ozarks. The comments are now opened again on all posts. I will be quite busy off and on until I get settled here so your comments could take a day to appear at times. I probably will not have a lot of time for new posts either for a few weeks.
I see while I was gone the nation has gone back to irrational exuberance as if the worst is now over. Don’t bet on it! There is a whole other shoe to drop on home foreclosures and commercial real estate foreclosures are also about to hit the banks. By this fall banks will be failing like dominoes all over the nation.
When the government puts trillions of dollars into the system it has to be spent somewhere and that is why you see some signs of a recovery. The problem is that the government money is not endless and it does not come from nowhere. They are now charging trillions on their national credit card that is already overextended. The next major crises will come when the creditors want to get paid back. Since we can only pay these huge debts with paper money fresh off the printing press it will result in a devaluation of the dollar or high interest rates. That will either make everything more expensive (inflation) or the high interest rates will put us back into a worse depression. Either way, there is no major recovery on the horizon. Things really could get significant worse.
So far health care legislation and carbon tax and-trade legislation has not make it to the President’s desk yet. Lets hope they never do or the costs of those programs will aggravate an already weak economic situation. By the way, has anyone noticed how cold temperature records are being broken all over the world even with rising CO2. The global warming models have been wrong but that should not surprise us since the whole global warming theory is junk science baloney. The earth is now growing significant colder. We better hope that a big volcano does not go off or we could be in a deep freeze this winter.
lets also not be myopic about Iran and N. Korea either. Do liberals really think that if we ignore these urgent problems that this is still not going to bite us in the butt within months? What will a strike on Iran bring to the economic stability of the West?
Someone might be interested in my relocation experience. I loaded a 26ft UHaul truck and towed a car behind it on a flat bed car carrier. I guess the whole rigg is fifty or more feet but you do not need a special license for a rig that is longer than a semi. Frankly, if you see someone pulling that set-up near you, you would be wise to get out of their way. Most gas stations are not set-up so they can make a turn in their station. In one place I could not make the turn and hit the post and had to unload the vehicle from the flat bed and get some people to push the trailer back away from the pump and then put the vehicle back on again. Now you know why those posts are protecting the pumps. At one rest stop I could not make the turn in an unusually narrow rest stop for tractor trailers and about tore off a bumper of a flatbed trailer parked at that rest stop. So now I have to deal with that accident report. My advice is to let someone else move you, you might save a little with the Uhaul but it is not worth the risk. Last time I moved with a UHaul a semi hit me in the rear.
So here we are in the Ozarks. It is a great spot to get away from people. I can only see one light at night. We have about five acres of open area in the middle of heavily forested area. I think the house sit on top of a ridge for the view or else they built it there it to try to catch passing tornadoes.
I cut the grass yesterday and that took all day. That was not much fun in the heat. I think I will go to brush hogging most of it every year or two rather than trying to mow the whole thing a dozen times a year.
The house is nice in some ways and strange in others. In most of this part of the Ozarks there are no building codes so people build the strangest houses. This house has two bathrooms but to get to one you have to go through the other? The one bathroom is as big as a bedroom and has kitchen cupboards and even a double kitchen sink? The pine siding on the house needs work because they did not coat it with quality wood covering so now we need to get that taken care of pronto or insurance is going to drop us.
Of course we only have a 28K Internet connection. That seems to be the standard for rural areas of the country, you cannot even get 56K dial-up. When is someone going to develop long range over the air Internet for us rural people? I probably will have to move to a third world country to get it.
We looked for a Church on Sunday and showed up for the service time they had on their sign. That was a big mistake we got there for the last fifteen minutes of the service. I don’t think that Church will work out for us so we will be looking again next week. Looks like we will have to travel about 25 miles to find a church that even has a full time pastor.
Hay, the blue grass music on Saturday night was fun.
Did u hear about Obama’s “regulatory czar” nominee Cass Sunstein ? http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=614400
I guess “O” wants to see the plant of the apes movie series played out during his administration.
Well I really do not want a cow to sue me because a ate a cheeseburger. But I guess this how idiotic America has become.
Hi Don,
Glad to read that you made it.
A few scrapes along the way (no pun intended).
Trials and testing no doubt.
Take care, will continue to pray for you.
Jeff
Don, why don’t you offer to preach at the church you first attended? If more of us knew what type of rig you were going to be driving to MO, I would have been more than glad to have given my telephone number to you. I have a son who drives for a company from here in El Paso, he was running for the past four weeks between Pennsylvania, New York and Texas. I would have also advised you to stay away from gas stations and other areas where you did not see semi-trucks. About your internet, have you looked into satellite?
Hi Joel,
I don’t think my offering to preach would get rid of that pastor. Besides, few would want to hear my message it upsets the apple carts of too many who love the status quo.
I visited another church today and had great expectations since it was in a town of five thousand people and the church had a school. All of about 20 adults showed up for the service! The rest were kids. One of the guys spoke in tongues and interpreted his own message with the standard spiel you hear in certain pentecostal churches. I guess I am supposed to believe that the Lord was actually speaking what he said. Fat chance! He also had a rather loud hallelujah for everything said. This was supposed to be the church that was not as Pentecostal as the one down the road. The church reminded me of a Vineyard denominational church, maybe it really was a Vineyard in disguise as a non denominational Church. I do not think the man behind the pulpit was the pastor. Perhaps the pastor departed or took the summer off. His message seemed to be part of a series but he never recapped or explained what the series was about so it left me questioning his interpretation of the beatitude that he was talking about and soon I was nodding off. I also did not get a chance to ask where the real pastor was since the service dragged on and on and we needed to attend a memorial service 90 minutes away at 2:00. So we had to leave before the final act. But, anyway that is not the right church for me, so we will not be going back.
I think next week we will try the local Southern Baptist Church. It will probably only have about 50 attending but it will be all neighbors. If that does not work out I know where there is a large and solid Baptist Church of more than 500 members about 25 miles from where we live.
The problem with Uhaul is that in my case they did not give me enough gas to even get to a real truck stop.
I looked into Satellite Internet but I have ruled it out. By the time you add up the monthly charges your near $100 a month for a speed only ten times greater than dial-up and then they limit you to a few hundred megabytes of download a day. You could max out that in just a half hour of video downloads. So I guess I will just stick with dial-up until they develop long distance over-the-air internet.
Don, welcome back. You have been in my thoughts and prayers and missed your
highly informative articles.
Hope you enjoy the Ozarks despite the inconveniences.
I live in St. Louis and wouldn’t mind getting out of the city; being smack dap in the
metro area (obama/muslim country.) It’s dangerous to take a stand and even to
post anti-obama or pro-Israel bumbers stickers. I’ve joined tea party protests
and blogs here and know I am not alone. But God is with me and I know I am
never alone and pray that he will use me where I am.
Regards
Hi Sybil,
Thanks, I lived in St Louis for awhile back in the 80’s
Things down in the Ozarks are quite different. You are an outsider here if you are not a Bible believing Christian. I have lived here before so I know what I am getting into to. The main issue I have here is the chiggers, ticks and gnats. The cost of living here is only about 75 percent of the national average. Its a good place to retire but if you need to work there are few good paying jobs.
Thanks for your response. My prayers with you as you search for a church home.
I belong to an SBC Church here myself.
Hello Don –
I think today was the first time I’ve ever been to your site and I’ve already been on it for a couple of hours reading from the many topics that you discuss. I can’t believe it’s been that long already! I have been blessed to no end.
The story about your move gave me some “visuals” and really brightened up my day. I was visualizing it in my mind like a mini-movie and I found myself almost breaking out in laugter in a couple of places – except for the part with the bumper. That was not funny.
I think I have an idea for that one bathroom. You said it’s as big as a bedroom so what I was thinking is that you could just add a small stove and rent it out as a small efficiency apartment and make some extra cash! (I’m getting carried away here)
All kidding aside, it sounds like a wonderful area to live. When I hear of the Ozarks I think of the smell of pine trees and picture a large forest. But then again, I’m from upstate NY so that’s where the idea of the pine trees come from. I love the sight and smell of pine trees. I’ll be googling Ozarks when I’m finished here and get an idea what the area looks like.
I love the work you do on your blog and will be following it until the Lord returns – which will be soon. It will be sooner than most people think, and sadly, many of those in the body of Christ are as blind as the secular world as to how close we really are. I repented and received Jesus in 1975, and I remember back then that there was much discussion and preaching on the end times. Unfortumately, through the years, this discussion and preaching of the latter days has waned and is almost non-existent.
May God continually bless your ministry, as I’m sure He will, and you really should consider that money – making idea I had – lol.
God bless Don
Hi Chuck,
Welcome to the blog also check out the website http://www.thepropeticyears.com.
Believe it or not I actually thought of the efficiency apartment idea as a guest apartment. The Bathroom is as big as some apartments that I lived in when I was single. But I know I am not going that route or I will have one of my wife’s strays living here until eternity. You can’t get much in rent around here anyway. I think small houses rent for about $200 a month and I would not want others driving in and out of my fenced gated area with my six dogs.
We have many pine trees in this part of the Ozarks mixed with the Oaks. My acreage has some very large pine trees. If you want to see what the area looks like on Google Earth or on some other satellite software look about ten miles south of Montauk State Park and a few miles east of the Current River. I am not telling anyone on the Internet the exact location.
Thanks for the support.
Hey, welcome to the Ozarks! If you’re in the Springfield area then look up Calvary Chapel… would love to have ya 🙂
I am almost two hours East of Springfield. I wish there was a Calvary Chapel around here. The Ozarks are ripe for Calvary Chapels to expand into this area. Where are the outreaches with teachers and future pastors to start them up? I could think of several towns of about 5000 that could support a Calvary Chapel in this area. Some small towns of less than a thousand have two or three baptist churches in the same denomination. That is a waste of resources and does not make much sense. Quite a few Christian people just do not go to church because they do not like what is available in the Ozarks. It basically comes down to Baptist, Assembly of God, Church of Christ or United Methodist.
Don, glad to hear you made it ok !
Don,
Welcome back!! I am happy to hear that despite the mishaps that you made it safely to your new home. You are so right about the Uhaul and trailering a car…only professional drivers should drive those contraptions. We moved my MIL a few years ago the same way, and can relate 100% to your story. Funny only after the fact. Maybe you would have been better off trading that car in for cash to finance the trip? LOL
I missed you while you were gone, and am still catching up on your new posts. But you hit the nail on the head with the false sense of security the majority has allowed themselves to be lulled into…How can people actually buy into the logic of a broke government that continues to spend to make things better? Many of the new programs out there are just a continuation of the same things that got us in this mess in the first place…the recovery act for homeowners is the equivalent of a new ARM, putting off inevitable foreclosures a few years, cash for clunkers creates more consumer debt and takes usable and affordable cars off of the market. As for Cap & Trade and Health Care, I am not encouraged by the delay…any opposition to the legislation has been either ignored or riduculed. Our system has completely broke down: One representative went so far as to tell his constituents he would vote against them if he thought it was ultimately in their best interest, and I fear the majority of so-called elected officials will follow suit. Time to check out 1984 commentary…
Keep up the good work you are doing Don, I am truly grateful for your dedication to this calling…I pray your new home provides all you need to continue your work.
Peace and Blessings!
Betty
Thanks Betty, Great to hear your views again.