We couldn’t help but wonder what had happened at Rethy after our evacuation and the subsequent looting. Was there any hope of returning to complete the radio broadcasting station that had been started? While we prepared to return we worked on the old farmhouse and then I went to see.
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It wasn’t the environment or the elaborate display of wealth that made the perfect wedding. It was called a homespun garden wedding by a Cooperstown paper, The Doubleday Courier but rather it was a union made in Heaven by the God of Love. A three strand chord is not easily broken, and God was in it.
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Confident that we had all the firewood we needed, we had three fires keeping us warm at Christmas time. We tried everything we could to keep us all warm, but the wood supply rapidly turned to smoke and ash. Our children hauling firewood down the hill in sleds somehow communicated that we couldn’t do it all ourselves
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They say location, location, location is the most important thing when buying a home. Paying cash made permits, inspections, and loans unnecessary. All the work we did together to make it our home built deep family relationships that lasted. The rather extensive rebuilding and repairs were all made by the family with God given ingenuity.