Beautiful Feet: February 27, 2015

Friday was the first of two moving days. Dwaine went out at 8:00, to pay the deposit on the new apartment and make final arrangements with the landlady. She was really nice. We started taking trips over with small items and I think we made about 5 trips total. I guess when you start putting items into a place, it seems to get a little smaller. The kitchen is a great size and very workable. The garage is open to the ‘living room,’ which is very small. We are going to use our free standing closets to create a division. Now, the living room will actually have to serve as a dining room as it corners with the kitchen. Even with only the table and chairs in this room, we are uncertain if the front door will open all the way. There is a small bedroom off the living room and we will locate there. Upstairs, there is an open room, where we will place the two futons and there are two bedrooms and a bath. We did discover one really funny thing and one not so funny thing. The funny one is that the plug in for the dryer is about 1/3^rd of the way up the stairs. The funny part of this, is….where does that leave you to actually put the dryer? We will be running a line into the kitchen, I suppose. It was a crazy place! You can look at the picture on that one. Caleb and Della had the same plug in the old house, but, it was a line to nowhere outside of the house so they did not get to use their dryer. We hope we do not discover the same today. The second, not so funny thing, is the entry to the garage. It is a good slant to enter the garage, so they put two grated ramps to the garage. Dwaine had me direct him onto the grates and at best, the front bumper drags. He said he might be able to build up the end of the grate to prevent this. The garage door is very hard to slide. So between the grates and the door, I personally may never attempt to put the car in the garage. But, it all has gone smooth so far and we are thankful that we have a place to go to. We will get used to all the layout and make adjustments. In the move, we have not been able to change the cable location yet. We may not have internet for a few days, so posting on the blog may be delayed.

We did experience our first earthquake! Guatemala had a 5.2 quake. We were sitting studying and I asked Dwaine if he felt something. He said yes, he was sure it was a quake. It lasted about 30 seconds, and it was sure strange. There was a funny part of this too. I have taught in science classes that one indication of a quake is the strange actions of animals. Well, just after the quake, one of our residents, a small mouse, ran right out in the middle of the floor. Dwaine jumped on that one and it won’t be visiting us anymore!