It Seems This is Inevitable...

To get straight to the point, I won't be able to keep this blog going. We'll be moving away from our actual, physical home in the high desert in the next several weeks, and, at the same time, I'll be closing the door for good on my High Desert Home blog.

Some of you have recently wondered if I was going to stop blogging. And when I responded that I fully intended to carry on, I meant it. And now, quite suddenly, everything has changed. I've known for a long time that changes were coming into our lives, but they came about much differently, more quickly, and more wide-sweeping than I'd imagined. I realize that it's just impossible to keep this blog going-- and neither will I be starting a new blog. I don't even know yet if I'll have internet in our new place (I haven't yet decided).

I really wanted to finish my "learning atmosphere" series of posts, but try as I might, I haven't finished yet, and I cannot imagine having time to do so now. I am so sorry to have promised them only to suddenly have everything in my life turn hard in a new direction.

I have much to do in the next month. I've just gotten back to town after having been away, once again, for several days. We've been working out details and getting things arranged in the place where we'll be living now. I'm sorry I'm not offering more details than this, but I prefer to keep them private (and I appreciate your understanding).

Let's just say that our new life will be quite different from the one we are living now, and I don't consider that to be a bad thing. If the Lord is leading us elsewhere, very good things are in store. Always.

But I will miss this remote, rural, wild, arid part of Oregon that feels wonderfully like the edge of nowhere (it really sort of is the edge of nowhere!). I'll miss the big, gorgeous high desert sky. I'll miss the rare kind of high desert beauty that not everyone sees. Some people see this region and terrain as a barren wasteland, and that strikes me as sort of sad. There is beauty everywhere if one has eyes to see it.

I'll leave the blog up for a short time in case anyone who is new here cares to read back a ways in the archives, but soon I will delete both this blog and my kitchen blog.

So...

I sincerely wish for God's best to those of you who have stopped by to visit so often. Thank you for your kind encouragement along the way. Thank you for just being so nice. I've very much enjoyed sharing the ordinary days and pleasures of my High Desert Home life with you.