We had hoped that Dan and Miranda might also be moving to Fayetteville, AR-- in the NW corner close to Springdale. But Dan's work decided to renew the lease on the building he has in Broken Arrow. SIGH. But they are not SSOOO far away.
I had decided to focus my copywriting on PLF launches and newsletter renewals. I think I mentioned that I got a short job for a PLF launch last week. This week I got a job writing a renewal series for Newsmax. If it performs well, I may have a lot of work with them. This is a nice step forward!
I had been meaning to create a web page for both the PLF copywriting and also for the letters I've been writing to missionaries. I just thought if they were out there, others could use them to send to their missionaries. They could be virtuous and also save time. So I bought the domain name: LetterstoMissionaries.com and started putting the older letters up. It takes a little time to review the letter, clean it up if there are mistakes, and load it onto a web page. I also was told that blogs with photos get viewed more, so I've been putting a picture with each blog post.
We learned that moving a designed book from the ideal design format to a Kindle format is not either cheap or easy. Bummer. I thought a PDF would do it, but it will not. You can view the PDF on a computer, but it does not size or scale larger or smaller on a hand held device. So my lovely little book will need to be mostly redone. Fortunately I won't be doing it.
This week Tom played handyman at a few of the rentals. He helped the neighbor across the street (Ernie) get his trim painted. He finished chopping the wood and now the wood pile is much bigger. He replaced some rotted posts in the horse corral. And we both worked on pulling out the rest of the mostly-dead garden. Unfortunately many of the weeds are still alive. We'll need to go back and get them pulled or roto-tilled.
Saturday we took another house vetting trip for Jonathan and Kristy. We had beautiful fall weather on the way up.
This time we went to Mt. Vernon and the Springfield area of Missouri. We met with Dean, the Realtor. He was very knowledgeable and we learned a lot as we traveled around. We saw 6 houses and were gone 13 hours. The first and 4th houses were our favorites. One had a great house close to town with level pasture. The other was further out with a smaller house, but fantastic rolling pastures and twice the land. They became our measuring tape for evaluating all the other properties.
We finished the last house just as dusk. When we drove up, we followed the GPS. It sent us down a new road "Z" and saved a good 10 minutes on the trip to Springfield. So as we were leaving the last property, I saw we were on the next country road west of "Z".
We could have gone north a few miles and taken the freeway. We SHOULD have gone north and taken the freeway, but no. We decided to follow the GPS. We went from narrow country road to gravel road to dirt road. Then we came to a river. I begged Tom to turn around. But with the spirit adventure like a bit between his teeth, he had to measure the water flowing across the low water bridge. About 2 inches. He insisted on taking the plunge...er, crossing.
We survived and drove on dirt roads for probably about 3 more miles before finding "Z" and continuing home. While it was nearly dark during this adventure, it was not totally dark. (Sort of like mostly dead.) When we got to Ava, we stopped for dinner and then continued home. It was about 350 miles round trip.
Today I took Nita, a member just down the road to church. We sang as a choir and it turned out well, I think. Nita got to feeling poorly mid Sunday school, so I ran her home and came back. Tom had is bishops youth discussion here at the house just after church. He seemed to have a good time with the youth.
All in all, a good week!
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