Jeffrey C. Long

Here I am all shiny new and refreshed after a one month hiatus from my blogs. Currently listening to: Wendy and Lisa I think I’m going to try a more diary approach to my writing here. I’ll still write essays from time to time. But this is one of the advantages of having multiple blogs… I can focus on different things in each place.

We are in our new house. I don’t think I mentioned that previously. It is amazing to have all this space. Our back yard is huge. The really amazing thing though, is that we have an entire garage full of stuff that was packed up and came with us that we apparently aren’t using. What to do with it all! Stuff is always hard to part with because you often hold sentimental value to it. Right now we have bigger projects to tackle and it is safe and sound in the garage. But eventually I’m going to have to go in there and figure out what to do with all of this stuff.

The really remarkable thing is the boxes of books. In the old house in Soap Lake, I had some books in boxes, but the rest were on various book shelves around the house. Like 4 or 5 of them, each in different rooms. So I’d never seen them all together. When I moved by myself to Idaho, I brought the books that I felt were my essential pastoral library. Some got left behind and were salvaged when the family moved. But now I’ve got all my books together in one place in the garage. A huge collection. So again, I have to figure out what to do with all of them. I’m contemplating putting them all up for sale on Amazon. I’d be my own little used bookstore.

I’m excited that after our cell phone broke the model we got was a picture phone. We got a really good deal on a used model that I would never have been able to touch brand new. So if I can figure out how to do it I can photo-blog and show people some of the things I experience in Filer and Twin Falls. I look forward to sharing my life again with you all. Thanks for your patience while I took a break.