Both Grace and Jae are good at finding great deals on Craigslist; last Tuesday Grace texted me and told me they’d found a camper-trailer for only $275, which she suggested we could use as a guest cabin. So I told them to pull the money from petty cash and go take a look at it, and though it needs some work it was a steal at that price. Once the roof is sealed and Jae redoes the interior, we’ll have a 24′ trailer that in a pinch can sleep five people, and Grace will run power and water hookups to it. Slowly but surely, the compound is growing and improving; before too much longer they’ll start on the bookcases, and most of the posts have already been placed for the new perimeter fence. As I’ve said before, deciding to move my operations to Washington state wasn’t an easy thing for me to do, though I know it was the right thing. So when stuff falls into place and I see things shaping up and my little family happy, it not only makes me feel good, but confirms to my nervous mind that I really did make the right decision.
Diary #447
January 22, 2019 by Maggie McNeill
Posted in Diary | Tagged blogging, Washington (state) | 4 Comments
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I miss doing all that stuff. Did it through all my youth with my dad (our house was really big and ramshackle – it had once been the town hotel). Our first house was a fixer-upper. Built a big stone wall 20 year ago at a cabin and last year we drove by and it was still looking good. That wall gave me more satisfaction than anything at my job.
Be careful about referring to your residence as a “compound”.
The following was written 2 years before the infamous YFZ raid.
“In what has to be considered an ominous development, news accounts began referring to the FLDS settlement in El Dorado as a “compound” — a term generally used to describe any edifice housing any group that finds itself on the receiving end of a Federal paramilitary assault.”
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2006/08/next-waco-part-one-of-irregular-series.html?m=1
I’m a bit disappointed that you actually believe that I didn’t know this, and that my use of the word was accidental when it was purely intentional for this EXACT reason.
Oh ye of little faith.
LOL…i should’ve known better. Keep fighting the good fight but you guys be careful…I read your blog and twitter every day…would really miss you if something were to happen.