More Fun With Dave and Wanda

Love of my life and I spent a grand day and about twenty dollars in gas driving around the Independence, Va. area doing the insurance thing. This is one set of the falls on Falls Road. I took some other pics and will post them altho' they didn't turn out too good. It's the camera, folks. The countryside in that area is beautiful. It's the only region we have seen where, other than where we are,we would have considered living.

There may be some people in the world who actually choose to sell insurance door to door. None of them reside at Villa MacBean. We do it because, well, quite honestly, it's the only job we could find in economically depressed southwest Virginia. After applying with local businesses for the better part of six months and after several call backs never hearing from them again, "ya do whatcha gotta do". Perhaps some of you remember the "desk clerk" job I applied for. He was the guy who asked if I could type. Now remember I have over twenty years experience working in hotels. The last I heard from that guy after about half a dozen conversations was "I'm going to put you on the schedule and give you a call". I hear the same litany here, as in Baltimore, "good help is so hard to find". You know what I say? "Well, if you didn't hire your nephew who only wants to get back on unemployment or that illegal Mexican, maybe you would have some good help". People in this area have many wonderful qualities, however their employment practices are not included, especially to when it comes to senior citizen newcomers.

So Wanda and I took the insurance jobs because we needed some positive cash flow. I've said several times I have a belief that God has a strange sense of humor.
For whatever reason He handed us our present challenge. I'm sure we are learning some important lessons because that's the way He does things. But I know He's chuckling over his latest. Yesterday, in the mail was a check for over a much needed $5,000. It was from a loan company and with interest we would have to repay over $9,000! Just deposit it in your checking account! Oh, yeah, I can hear the laughter now.