We Are Stayin!!!

Well, no need to move back east, we are stayin in Iowa!! And we are happy about that! A week before Phil left for PA he got a job offer from a company right here in Humboldt. I got the phone call while riding around visiting with cousin Susie, he said "I got the job, now what do we do?" The bottom line was--we had nothing in writing from Born Free as to what they would actually do for us when they "invested" in the new factory lot in PA. I told Phil, lets get something in writing and go from there. Well, you know what I'm going to say, don't you? All of a sudden all the "investing to make it a success" fell away and we were left with a dried up bone of an offer. They would buy our house for the middle estimate of it's worth, any money we put into the house when we moved here and will lose because we are leaving so soon is "not Born Free's problem". They would move us, but not in the Allied Van Lines way they did when they brought us out here, but in the U-Haul It way of college kids heading out into their life after graduation. Of course, they wanted Phil in PA asap, so the UHauling would be left to fresh out of surgery Connie. Phil said "we have a grand piano, for goodness sake!" But Doug said that is what they would pay for.

Well, he pretty much made up our mind with that. Phil gave his resignation and you could have knocked Doug over with a feather----never dreamed Phil would quit. Here is what I have to say, they lost a hard working, company man in Phil Overby.

So, the neighbors gave us a good bye party, ha ha, it's so sweet and funny. Tonight the whole neighborhood is getting together for what was once a goodbye party but is now a neighborhood party. I'm looking forward to it.

This morning I sat on the porch, its cool, the clouds were blown into a feather like pattern above, a runner trotted by. Birds chirped. I am happy here.