reply to Rachel, questions about Ohio
Posted by: marli <marli@...>
sounds JUST wonderful. I saw pictures of houses being auctioned and for sale
in the magazine Marci sent. I found several I wanted to buy 🙂 Almost
nothing around here is available for under $100,000 any longer, much of the
land starts at $5,000-7,000 an acre and goes up to many, many thousands of
dollars depending on the "view" and much of it is sold without water. Wells
have to be very deep, water production isn't that great in terms of gallons
per minute, and the water is very hard and full of minerals. On our
property, we had three wells go dry and finally petitioned the nearby
village to let us have city water. We are about 2.4 miles from town, but
less than a mile from where city water ended. By the Lord's grace, we were
approved and then had to do a road bore, run the line underneath the
highway, then dig the ditch down the side of the highway to bring the water
to our place. We have to pay for two pumps to get it to our house and have
to pay 1 1/2 times the regular rate for the privilege of having water. It
was a miracle that we got water at all....the village has since passed a
moratorium on giving water to folks outside village limits.
As to the church situation here, we are struggling in that area as well. We
attended a non-denominational church when we first married, stayed there ten
years. It ended up changing from First Baptist to a charismatic,
non-denominational church while we were there. After some problems within
the leadership, we felt God calling us to leave. We were out of church for a
few months, then began attending another Baptist church in our town. (There
are very few choices here as our population is under 2000.) At one point,
nearly everyone in the church was homeschooling and there were lots of kids.
Now, most of the folks have their children in public school or are
empty-nesters. We have little in common with most of them because of this
and because of our conservative views, so we've been at home again. We have
not been led to attend any other churches so far.
Anyway, what is the weather like in your area? Dh is afraid that the winters
are really cold and the summers really hot. That sounds like a silly
question, but when you've been in one place 25 years, it's a little scary to
imagine living in a completely different area. Here, we are at 6350 feet
altitude, get some snow (there's a ski run about 15 miles from our house)
but we still have sunshine most of the year. It usually rains in July, some
in August, but we are dry much of the year. Virtually no humidity at all.
Lots and lots of wind, more so as the years go by. The weather conditions
somewhere else are the main concern for hubby right now since he has to work
in it. He does work for an electric co-op here, has been a journeyman
lineman for years and currently operates a double bucket truck along with
climbing poles and such. He has nearly 20 years experience with the electric
utility industry. He's also a licensed journeyman electrician in New
Mexico...that was his job before the co-op. Any additional info from you is
great! I have been putting all my book selling money in an account that's
marked for a farm in Ohio...dh and I joke all the time about it...but I'm
pretty serious about it. So, share all you can and thanks so much! Lisa