August 1977....Many factors were at play now:..We had committed to a mortgage...The Forest Service changed daily, consolidation of districts, new rangers, new policy, NRA added, transfer or not?..Bobbi was in high school, Rusty was settled in and neither really wanted to move...Herb was thinking he had enough politics to deal with here and could see that it only got worse, if one moved up the ladder...I was loving the lake, mountains and the trees, so reminicent of my growing up in Idaho...Maybe we could continue on with the boating, camping, hunting, spending time with Dad and making occasional trips to Utah to see my Mom...Years from now maybe we could move somewhere else to retire.
Now after all the excitement of buying a house, we began to wonder, what had we been thinking, as the first thing that happened was the sewer backed up...We could no longer pass the bills to our landlords but had to figure out how to pay them ourselves...Money was tight and we had plans to insulate the house, buy a wood stove, and the roof needed replacing...We learned quickly, to take one day at a time!..The backhoe arrived to dig up the sewer pipe, that went to the city main and Herb was able to replace old pipe with new...Somehow the bill got paid, maybe Herb got called on a fire and made extra money that pay period...I know I juggled money every month, but at least Herb had a job and a steady paycheck and we had made the first two payments on our house...Hugs To All...OWAV:)
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