I promised to take a picture to prove our new happiness. Here ya go:
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I cropped out the car license plates. But–Yay!
My husband and I had a great time shopping. They had almost everything we needed at far less than shopping the little stores here, with more room and less crowded. They had been picked over during the week. But I was happy to find things to help my new addiction. No. There were no Diamond Art sets, but tape, frames, Command Strips, tons of acrylic paints, etc. Lots of food, though overwhelming amount of snack foods. But gotta keep the locals happy. I’m sure you’ve all seen Dollar Generals. But here,
Here is our post office. It is quaint. Though door-to-door delivery doesn’t happen. We have to walk (7 miles round trip) or drive to pick it up. By the way, in spring and summer there are beautiful flowers surrounding this sweet community meeting place.
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Don’t get me wrong, I love living in the country. But the biggest reason most move here is housing. It is less expensive. It doesn’t take long to realize that jacked up prices at local stores, the 150 miles to a cheaper store costs in gas to get there. For us $50 gas for every trip. And the $100 to change to snow tires for a couple months then rinse repeat in Spring. Well, I guess you can understand why many of us are so excited for such a humble addition to our community.
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Add to the excitement of the new store the Friday Friends chat, it was a great day!
I am amazed that you have to go so far our town is only half a mile from my house a twenty minutes walk, I can drive or catch a bus or train to the next two towns 4miles and 12miles and London is only 32miles away….our England is tiny …💜
We are in what is called the Outback of Oregon. It is not the woodsy green part but the desert. It has it’s own beauty. The sky. Miles of sagebrush in every direction. It is so quiet. I’ve lived in cities. My favorite was Orange County, California. Disneyland, Knott’s Berry Farm, the beaches, and mountains nearby. But it was SO expensive. Once retired we couldn’t afford to live there any more. But I love the adventure of living new places. I’d love to see the Isles!
I admire you I don’t think I could get used to being somewhere so quiet and I’d miss the green .
We have traffic noise and green trees and fields and people ….I suppose never having liived in a large country I find the distance between places hard to comprehend. I have visited The US and Canada and it was wow! Big sky!! 💜
It has taken a lot to get used to living this rural. I have been the big city girl all my life so, yeah, culture shock quite often.
Well I admire you.
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Oh. My. God. Really? There is still a U.S. post office like that, that does not deliver mail and still looks like something out of the 30’s??? Poor citizens of your town!! Someone needs to holler at the town council members or the mayor and get something done about that! On the other hand, congrats on the acquisition of the DG!! I KNOW you’re happy about that!! I don’t know where you live, but if I were y’all, I’d have an Amazon Prime membership and have all my needs delivered! However, you do need to get out and about from time to time, I understand that.
Don’t forget to send me a pic of your finished work after painting the frame black. 🤗
We’re in the Outback of Oregon. It is the desert part. It is quiet and beautiful. Yet not what we were used to. Anaheim, CA, Reno, NV. It’s taken a lot to get used to it. Yes, we have Amazon Prime. And yes, it is nice to have an inexpensive roomy store to stroll. I’ll share my finished project to my DP guru!
Haha, I’m no guru, but thank you! I can’t wait to see it, and I think I saw another fellow blogger who’s also doing it! I’ll have to go check hers out and let you know if you aren’t already following her!
That is crazy to me that there are still some wild parts of our nation! I’d love to see it in person!