Grateful God Works in Mysteriously Weird Ways!!! A Bit Nostalgic Here…

April, 26, 2022:
Thanks for this memory reminder, FB!

Been glued to my computer and needed phone call/information collecting here today, while doing some emails/print work, etc…and just saw this. God is so faithful to me, and am grateful to know I am in active process of an amount of SBA economic relief so greatly needed since my post-divorce recovery ordeal was swallowed up by a worldwide pandemic…and now…continued worldwide issues in Ukraine which will surely affect us all in this economy, etc.

Thank you for all the prayers…God sees, God hears…God understands the nitty gritty’s even when I can’t explain it!

I must learn there is no need to over-explain. Hard thing for me.

People will either get it, or they will not get it.

This does not mean it’s now easy peasy…

I need to pull my business FORWARD…and FASTER, more EFFIECIENTLY and EXPEDIENTLY.

Which means, I need work and continued sales!

And my most immediate need once I can do this is to buy a RELIABLE vehicle…ditch the DAISY VAN, lol, which sadly I trusted myself to inspect, drive and purchase in DE in May 2020 on one of my first non-grocery excursions during the pandemic, without a MAN to physically inspect it, ha ha…ok ok…I can’t refrain from sexist jokes during this life season…but…those jokes are way complicated, not to be sexist nor have them taken at face value….lol…Sunday I did find a MAN to replace my turn signal bulb while visiting…after Saturday a.m. before going to DE asking at Firestone Auto, while running errands…how much to install my bulb…I said along lines of “just asking, and, I can’t afford to pay $50”…they told me they “don’t install customer parts…he worked up a quote…$49.95!!!”

TOO FUNNY.

So among my packups on DE trip was a cute little art piece set worth $50 and a jar of jelly…but I never got around to grabbing some BROTHER IN CHRIST after church and trading this offering for their wife…ha ha…but, my son did it in 10 minutes Sunday afternoon on my visit there, came inside and joked, “That will be $49.95!”

I had already given the little garden related cute art and jelly to one of the variety of friends that seem to come and go there – various roommates and visitors! We were smiling…I said “this is my current currency at the moment for some types of good and services!”

They thought it was good currency!

There is a wonderful book I read several years back I highly recommend…it is called Sacred Economics, by Charles Eisenstein

Zach and I discussed my vehicle needs…he suggested I might look for a used service vehicle….but I’m thinking I don’t want a panel van that blocks my view (ha…you know…like I’m a typical woman driver…those UHAULS I drove from AL to north, twice, made me nervous!)

Zach says I should put feelers out…buy a vehicle from someone I might know…or a friend of theirs…

The friend I stayed with Saturday night laughed Sunday afternoon…she was helping carry some things out for me when I was leaving for Zach’s, I opened the van door and she saw power tools, straw and more! ha ha…before that, she was loving the cute flowers painted on the van…

I told her, “It’s a disguise…looks like an ART MOBILE on the outside but open it up and it’s a farm truck!”

Seriously…Zach tells me the scammers love middle-aged women looking for mini vans…but…

I am very familiar with Chrysler Town and Country’s….I owned a 2005 model, I kept after my first divorce….only owner…fully paid off myself in 2011…took it to AL and made $1500 repairs summer of 2019 during my divorce…had to “emergency sell it” so I could drive a 2nd UHAUL Jan 2020…gratefully got $600 for it from a church friend…came to DE…borrowed a vehicle (ha ha…a 2008 Chrysler T & C…) until May….then thought I (wrongfully) thought I could trust myself on assessing this 2007 Chrysler Town and Country! Ha ha…thought it was a deal…ran great (on the test drive, not when I left the lot days later and soon after)…low miles…a little rust….oh boy….oh boy….paid $2500 and then have probably repaired over $3000 on it…and it will NOT pass PA inspection this year…I saw the underside of it recently from “Barbie Mechanic” in York! ha ha……)

Live and learn.

I do like the stow-and-go seats, if needed.

I don’t want to drive a truck.

I want something reliable enough to visit AL or other places on occasion…to not fear breaking down en route to a caricature job in DE or elsewhere….old enough that it is OK to haul stuff like straw and dirt/concrete in it if needed…freedom to create a new “Grateful Dead mobile” for advertising, ha ha….oh the LOSS of time and expensive paint just in THAT…and it isn’t even done!!!…….low miles, as low as possible…reasonable price….worth expected repairs…oh….Town and Country’s…known for power steering failures, and more…those were repaired in AL on my previous 2005 model….

But mainly, I need to say something else sexist here!:

Any MAN – brother in Christ or friend – family member etc who might get some sense of satisfaction in helping me locate “said vehicle” (OK…I’d take a Dodge, Toyota or otherwise with same general features!) within next couple weeks or month….be capable of initially assessing “said vehicle” or of course, I can take it THIS TIME to “Barbie Mechanic” in York…ha ha…well….

This could be another adventure!

This is another weird post, sorry!

Anyone who knows of some unfortunate vehicle ready to be sold, and owned by me(!)…and painted on…and haul caricature tents, chicken food, straw and garden stuff

…um…please let me know???!!!

Oh. And it must be able to pass PA INSPECTION!

Not DE. Not AL. Not Mexico….lol…my son told me I should sell this jalopy to some other person in another state…but I’d feel bad! Parts? As is?

My neighbor saw a local ad, “buying any vehicle for $600.”

Oh the ironies!!!!

I told Zach…“well….I suppose I could drive it to Mexico, too….!”

True Story: I was on two-month missions trip in Mexico City summer of 1984…they buy, repair and DRIVE (at that time and likely now) old vehicles from the US.

There were Volkswagons and cars from the 60’s on the roads there, especially in Mexico City.

I can testify!…the team I was on took an excursion in a VW bus on treacherous roads to some retreat cabin in the rural areas in mountains….we broke down and stopped in at a ranch for help.

The men were trying to remove a dead calf from a cow with a rope…the male mission team members assisted…I have some fantastic photos…I’ll transfer this one to my blog!!!

After the bloody mess (I didn’t know what was happening, I thought the cow was dead or dying…she was make horrible sounds – and I hadn’t yet given birth – nor witnessed a dead calf being removed by rope)…the mom COW stood up…walked away…and the Mexican ranchers gave us water for the radiator!

I vaguely recall getting to our destination…a few days of retreat to discuss our VBS experiences there….but I mostly recall…

…the COW!

Always. Find. Humor.