Updates

1. Jonathan left this morning for a week long field training exercise. His unit is going to be on call for the last 3 months of this year for disaster relief. There are a lot of new officers that have arrived this summer, so the hospital needs to work out how to respond quickly if the need arises.

2. Naomi, the pets and I will be leaving for Oregon on Wednesday. Naomi will be attending an Operation Purple camp in Salem. The animals and I will go for a visit to the family farm.

3. Our household shipment was supposed to have left Atlanta on Saturday. So Jonathan will take delivery of it once he returns. So hopefully the furniture will be in the house when Naomi and I return. Then comes all the work of figuring out how to arrange it and unpacking all of the boxes and getting things put away once again.

4. Jon Paul's graduation from Basic Training is 2 Sept. We plan to be there.

And we have gotten word from him that food packages are NOT ALLOWED. Bummer!

Our New Home (without the furniture delivered!)

This is our new home, with only the things we brought with us. We are still waiting to hear where our household goods shipment is located and when it will be delivered. So we have a couple of folding tables for a dining room and desk. And lots and lots of boxes of stuff with no way to empty them and put things away. Boy am I glad we decided to visit the thrift store right before we moved and decided at the last minute to buy some lawn chairs. (Click on the photos for a larger image.)

the front of the house & garage. That's a Dutch Elm tree in front and a juniper on the left corner.the back yard and patio. There is a family of rabbits living under the shed, just as they do under many of the yard sheds in the housing areas.
the living room with our large folding table and lawn chairs. Notice Misty lying under the table. She's very glad to be not traveling anymore.
the mattress in the master bedroom. Charlie likes it being low to the ground, although he is afraid of cameras.

New Contact Info

Our new home address is:

7016 Hollandia Circle, Colorado Springs, CO 80902

New home phone #: 719-302-5001

(this is different from this morning as the first number was not working properly.)

Jon Paul has an updated address:

Landon, Jonathan P.

2nd Plt, B Co, 1st Bn, 13th Inf Regt

4420 Jackson Blvd

Fort Jackson, SC 29207-5021

(be sure to include the additional 4 zip code numbers!)

We are in Colorado

We arrived in Colorado on Tuesday. Wednesday we signed the lease for a house on post. We have unloaded our trailers & our awaiting the arrival of the POD and household goods. The POD is scheduled for this afternoon (Saturday). We are still waiting word from the movers for the furniture arrival.

We brought a folding table and lawn chairs with us. (And have the dishes & mattress pads from the camping trailer, so we are okay for now.)

When I find where I misplaced the camera, I'll post some photos of the house and some of the places we've gone sightseeing. The kids and I played mini-golf. And we went last night on a flashlight tour of the Cave of the Wind. We have plans to go to Garden of the Gods, Seven Falls, and Pike's Peak before Mathew returns to Georgia on Thursday.

We will visit with Mathew's uncle in Denver after dropping Grandpa off at the Denver airport. Grandpa (Becky's Dad) returns to Oregon this evening after helping us on the drive for Georgia.

And for those who saw my posting on FB about the cat being missing. Misty is safe. She apparently had found a small hiding hole in the trailer that we somehow overlooked. So she had a rough ride in the trailer from the last campground to the house. But everything is well.

Charlie has yet to really discover the rabbits that live under the shed in our yard. The rabbit population is apparently rather large here in the housing areas. They are cute, but I'm hoping they won't eat too many of our plants/flowers. And yes Denise, if we can, we will try and get you some rabbit fibers to knit :)

the work begins

We started loading the POD today. It was delivered yesterday, but we had other things to do. With 5 of us (thanks Mathew for coming to help) we were able to get all of the packed boxes out of the basement family room and into the container. It is now about 1/2 full. The bikes were also loaded into the truck bed.

On Monday, we will finish filling it with other boxes already packed and some of our furniture. Tuesday the Army movers arrive to pack and move the remaining items. We also have to finish loading the trailer with things we don't want the movers to handle or things they won't move (like gas cans and cleaning chemicals). We also need to get our clothes and food into the camping trailer.

Here are photos of the POD I took before the loading began:

Jon Paul's address at Basic

Received a letter from Jon Paul today. He's doing well. His address is below if you want to write to him.

Landon, Jonathan P.
2nd Platoon, Warlords
B Company, 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment
Fort Jackson, SC 29207