The way cool Christmas present
Our house is selling this month.
We have to be out by January 10th.
Its inventory month and the busiest time of the year in our store.
We have looked and looked and lost hope of finding a new home.
We have been stressed out to the max!
But something happened yesterday.
In my wildest imaginations I could not have seen how it would be possible for God to provide an affordable house that had "all" that we wanted.
But He did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything about the whole deal had God's fingerprints all over it.
How did he do that?
Did he materialize these people and this property in the last week?
But it must have existed all along.
It was meant just for us and was waiting just for us.
A day later or even an hour later and it would have gone to someone else.
Its one of those.......:-)
We had a list of wishes a mile long.
But they were infeasible!
Here is what we have.........
The house is in the tiny little town of Victor in the same valley which we now live.
That is where I wanted to live when I first saw the valley.
Only 8 miles to work in Corvallis.
Our house is walking distance to the town of Victor. Grocery store. Restaurant. Gas station. Only a half mile!
Flat roads and neighborhoods for bike riding endlessly.
Beautiful walks.
We are in a neighborhood with other people in close proximity. (Good community feeling)
Always wanted to live in a neighborhood and have wilderness too.
Impossible.
We have complete privacy. (except for the front yard)
Beautiful aspens and maple type trees gracing the front yard.
A small manicured lawn out front.
A double car attached garage. I love attached garages!!!
The outside of the house is log facade. Looks like a cabin w/o the fly problem.
Inside the house is mostly wood floors in circular sawn rough hewn pine.
The walls are log facade.
A cavernous basement with tons of storage and guest space. Finished.
2200 square feet. 1.5ish acres. Not too much to care for.
Beautiful wood stove in the kitchen.
Central heat.
Everything seems to be wood with a healthy balance of dry wall for decorating.
Out the back door is a patio that looks out over the most incredible view of river property you have ever seen anywhere.
There are acres and acres of reserve behind us that is totally at our disposal.
Nobody frequents there because access is so difficult so its virtually ours!
Our property sort of cliffs off to a meadow down below but just before the edge
sits a strewn out little forest of pine trees with one HUGE OLD ponderosa pine in the middle. On our property!!!!!!!
Down in the meadow is built a campfire pit with benches all around.
Beyond that is the easement road for the adjoining neighbors.
Beyond that is the reserve which is shared with only four other neighbors at the most.
It begins with an iced over creek that is perfect for iceskating.
The land is thick with cotton wood and beaver dams and teeming with wildlife.
The river has one particular spot with beach sand and swimming hole.
My very own!!! I love water and laying out in the sun.
Birds will come to our property in scores in spring and summer.
This whole set up reminds me of a movie I've seen.
Like the Chronicles of Narnia.
Everything is so civilized outside the closet and then you pass through to a wonderland that you would never have know was there.
That is exactly what it is like!
There can be no other opportunities like this in all of the valley that would still be priced in our price range.
It does not exist except right beside us at our neighbors homes.
God is so good.
I am awed and humbled and believe more than ever that there is nothing
that He cannot do.
I don't know, I kinda suspect he created this property just this week. ;-)
I am soooo happy.
Thank you God.
We have only two months to wait.
Meanwhile we will be camped out at my mothers house in her beautiful studio apartment since our house is sold and we need to be out by January 10th.
God looks after every detail when it is in his will and good pleasure.
The Lord is sovereign and powerful and beautiful and generous.
He has brought us through so much trial for our own good and his promise to build our character to be more like his own. No doubt that HAS been happening.
But he also gives us holidays and goodies along the way.
I feel like a child and my daddy has just given me a way cool Christmas present.
Thank you , Thank you, Thank you God.
We have to be out by January 10th.
Its inventory month and the busiest time of the year in our store.
We have looked and looked and lost hope of finding a new home.
We have been stressed out to the max!
But something happened yesterday.
In my wildest imaginations I could not have seen how it would be possible for God to provide an affordable house that had "all" that we wanted.
But He did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everything about the whole deal had God's fingerprints all over it.
How did he do that?
Did he materialize these people and this property in the last week?
But it must have existed all along.
It was meant just for us and was waiting just for us.
A day later or even an hour later and it would have gone to someone else.
Its one of those.......:-)
We had a list of wishes a mile long.
But they were infeasible!
Here is what we have.........
The house is in the tiny little town of Victor in the same valley which we now live.
That is where I wanted to live when I first saw the valley.
Only 8 miles to work in Corvallis.
Our house is walking distance to the town of Victor. Grocery store. Restaurant. Gas station. Only a half mile!
Flat roads and neighborhoods for bike riding endlessly.
Beautiful walks.
We are in a neighborhood with other people in close proximity. (Good community feeling)
Always wanted to live in a neighborhood and have wilderness too.
Impossible.
We have complete privacy. (except for the front yard)
Beautiful aspens and maple type trees gracing the front yard.
A small manicured lawn out front.
A double car attached garage. I love attached garages!!!
The outside of the house is log facade. Looks like a cabin w/o the fly problem.
Inside the house is mostly wood floors in circular sawn rough hewn pine.
The walls are log facade.
A cavernous basement with tons of storage and guest space. Finished.
2200 square feet. 1.5ish acres. Not too much to care for.
Beautiful wood stove in the kitchen.
Central heat.
Everything seems to be wood with a healthy balance of dry wall for decorating.
Out the back door is a patio that looks out over the most incredible view of river property you have ever seen anywhere.
There are acres and acres of reserve behind us that is totally at our disposal.
Nobody frequents there because access is so difficult so its virtually ours!
Our property sort of cliffs off to a meadow down below but just before the edge
sits a strewn out little forest of pine trees with one HUGE OLD ponderosa pine in the middle. On our property!!!!!!!
Down in the meadow is built a campfire pit with benches all around.
Beyond that is the easement road for the adjoining neighbors.
Beyond that is the reserve which is shared with only four other neighbors at the most.
It begins with an iced over creek that is perfect for iceskating.
The land is thick with cotton wood and beaver dams and teeming with wildlife.
The river has one particular spot with beach sand and swimming hole.
My very own!!! I love water and laying out in the sun.
Birds will come to our property in scores in spring and summer.
This whole set up reminds me of a movie I've seen.
Like the Chronicles of Narnia.
Everything is so civilized outside the closet and then you pass through to a wonderland that you would never have know was there.
That is exactly what it is like!
There can be no other opportunities like this in all of the valley that would still be priced in our price range.
It does not exist except right beside us at our neighbors homes.
God is so good.
I am awed and humbled and believe more than ever that there is nothing
that He cannot do.
I don't know, I kinda suspect he created this property just this week. ;-)
I am soooo happy.
Thank you God.
We have only two months to wait.
Meanwhile we will be camped out at my mothers house in her beautiful studio apartment since our house is sold and we need to be out by January 10th.
God looks after every detail when it is in his will and good pleasure.
The Lord is sovereign and powerful and beautiful and generous.
He has brought us through so much trial for our own good and his promise to build our character to be more like his own. No doubt that HAS been happening.
But he also gives us holidays and goodies along the way.
I feel like a child and my daddy has just given me a way cool Christmas present.
Thank you , Thank you, Thank you God.
posted by Becky Nelson @ 6:54 AM
2 Comments:
At 1:30 PM,
J. Holo said…
congradulations!!!!! and merry Christmas!
At 7:17 AM,
Anonymous said…
Wow Becky, sounds great! I agree that God gives good gifts to His children. It is so much like Him to thrill His loved ones. Can't wait to visit with you and see it for myself.
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