Sundance Has Landed!
November 19th, 2008After traveling for 2.294 years in our mobile home/trailer, we finally found a suitable place to land. A small step down (about 27,000) times to unload our belongings into our new home and Sundance, our 5th wheel trailer is now in storage, and a giant leap forward into a new life for us.
Instead of having about 200 sq. ft. we are now trying to remember where we put things away in 1600 sq. ft. From owning a little home on wheels, we have a 3 bedroom house that is already asserting its ownership of us. Early adventures include having the power turned off for a day in an all-electric house because they misread the order about changing service to us and had some quirky regulations that took some tricky hoop jumps. Of course that happened while I was putting Sundance into storage, so we couldn’t cook and use its refrigerator. And it was too late in the day to get back into town. But we had our small generator to plug in the fridge and power a lamp, so it wasn’t that much of a problem.
The house is on the hill top in the middle of Sparrow Hawk Village, one of the early cluster houses built in the early 1980s. We were looking for community and there are levels of that here. Some are centered around Sparrow Hawk and some have to do with the church and seminary. Helena goes to a morning meditation every day and there are active committees for a food coop, volunteer fire department, water board for the community well (the water tower is also a giant cross holding something like 3000 gallons), and others governing various functions, like home owners association and architectural committee.
Energetically, the place is intense and not for everyone. Helena has been feeling better than she has in years for the entire time we’ve been here in the RV park and now in our house. I haven’t, although on paper my natural frequency resonates with what is here quite nicely. Because the community was relocated here by it’s spiritual founder, Carol Parish, based on insistence by her guide, it is active with incarnate beings referred to as the Hierarchy. We’ve been talking to some of them since deciding to drive all the way here, and since arriving have had frequent visitors, often announcing themselves during dinner (just like telemarketers for that matter).
What prompted us to buy in right away is a combination of how much we like Sparrow Hawk and the town 10 miles away, Tahlequah, and an opportunity to get a house with a dance floor! We have been mostly occupied with things–getting things here, finding places to put them, making office and work spaces. The layout is quite odd with the only standard bedroom painted pink–not my favorite color. Lots of updating is needed and the challenges arrange themselves around what to do now and how much can be put off. Our cell service works well most of the time, but does drop out on occasion. Helena seems to have better luck with it than I do–what is that about? But then she monopolizes the phone time anyway, so I guess it’s better for it to be me with the problem and not her.
And then there is Oklahoma all around us. They have a different way of doing things here that takes some getting used to. Very friendly folks. Not as goal oriented as we are accustomed to, so they don’t often have voice mail. There’s no phone tag here. Lots of small businesses don’t seem to keep regular hours and if you want to talk to them, you just have to keep dropping by and calling until they happen to be there and interested in talking. A bit like what we’ve experienced on reservations in the Southwest where things are done on “Indian time.” But then again, the cost of living is much less here than other places we’ve lived or been to recently.
Gotta go now. Sounds like the firewood delivery just arrived. (We have a great little stove that can heat the whole house!)
Gary