Quote from Forum Archives on October 8, 2001, 3:13 pm

Posted by: dhaley <dhaley@...>

Lisa,

I don't know if I can find a web site for them but Cyrus (a plane
manufacturer) in Duluth, MN just won a huge oversees contract and are
bringing a bunch of people into the area and I'm told they are hiring.
Duluth is about an hour and 15 minutes from me. The housing and land is
very reasonable. You'd be about 1/2 an hour from Julie and about 3 hours
from Jacqui in Canada. We have a couple of multiracial families in our
church and they are very common here. We go to church in Duluth. It's a
college/university town but mostly is known for it's outdoor sports and
being on the shore of the largest body of fresh water in the world....Lake
Superior. I love driving there every week for church....Deanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Martin Family" <marli@trailnet.com>
To: <homesteadheaven@weloveGod.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 12:41 PM
Subject: [HomeSteadHeaven] SueDawn and snakes, interracial families,
moving--where to go?....reply to Deanna

> Thank you Deanna for all the helpful suggestions. I have either talked to
> SueDawn once or talked to someone who knew them, a lady in Tulsa if I
> remember right. She told me SueDawn had adopted children through her
agency,
> Hannah's Prayer in Tulsa and that she was on the board of their agency.
> I never knew this story though....wow! We have friends who lived here for
> three or four years, then moved to Georgia to start a church. They had
lived
> in the south before, Mississippi, Florida and such so knew how it could
be.
> While they were in New Mexico, they adopted a bi-racial baby boy and
adopted
> an African American baby girl three weeks after they settled in Georgia.
> Anyway, they started out in a small town outside Athens, but quickly
> realized the attitude there wasn't exactly friendly. They sold that house
> and moved into Athens where people were not near as concerned with an
> interracial family. This particular couple has lived all over, so she's a
> great one to tell me which areas to avoid and which ones are good for a
> family such as ours. I know I like to think that people won't have a
problem
> with it, especially since we don't encounter any here, but there are still
> many people that do hold racial "lines" in their mind, in their community,
> whatever, and these seem to be more prevalent in the south. I think the
> south would fit us in most categories except this one and that's one
that's
> very important to our family.
>
> I have talked to several families that say MN is great for interracial
> families, many adoptive families of African American children there. I
also
> know a lady in Idaho that's adopted three AA children...she says everyone
> there is super nice. So, right now Idaho and Washington state seem to be
the
> strongest possibilities with Ohio right there too. I would say God wants
us
> here, but He's never revealed that to either of us and our families
brought
> us here without ever seeking His plan....they just did it, so we're
seeking
> what He wants and hoping our desire to leave is from Him.
>
> Regarding the snakes...I had looked in a book last night and seems that
> every snake I didn't like was in Tennessee! I know people may not see them
> much, but our family has had their fill and doesn't want to have snakes
> everywhere we turn. We've had everything from the tiny, very deadly baby
> rattlers, up to the big king-size grandpas! Also, these aren't out in the
> hills or whatever, these have been under our back steps, beside the
> foundation of our house, in the crawl space of our foundation, in my
hubby's
> shop building, you name it, we've seen it. We've talked about getting
> guineas as everyone says they are great to get rid of snakes, but so far
> nothing else has worked. We've had dogs and cats always, but the snakes
are
> still rampant. I know this may sound trivial or wimpy, but I'm tired of
> being Annie Oakley 🙂
>
> I've been dejunking all summer but will step it up after seeing my
> neighbor's HUGE mess yesterday. She only has one child and her husband,
and
> that house looked like she hadn't gone through anything even though they
are
> leaving today. She started cleaning out her magazine section while I was
> there so I think they must have been concentrating on big things like
> furniture. I am going through it all over the course of this winter so
it'll
> be done in the event we do get to move. Guess I better get started!
>
> Blessings today,
> Lisa
>
>
>
>
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