Moving to Modesto

Wow, moving is such a pain. I wasn't planning on moving until.... I got a letter from the Eureka SDA Church board. As you may (or may not) know, Helen died awhile back. Seems the former pastor of the Eureka SDA Church knew that she was getting old, and helped her by getting her to make out a will. Of course during this process, he convinced her to give much of her estate to the church. It might seem to be a conflict of interest, but he also appointed himself as the executor. Then after that was accomplished, the Northern California conference asked him to move away from Eureka to help pastor another church down near Sacramento. So we haven't seen this guy except for one visit for over two years.

Any way, somehow the Eureka SDA church found out about this will, and being in need of funds (and what church today isn't) decided that they should sell Helen's house so they could acquire "their" money. Subsequently I received a letter stating I had 60 days in which to move.

Rather than question the validity of their request, I acquiesced and began to look for a place to relocate to. I thought... in two months I should be able to find lots of places. Well I did. There are hundreds of rentals all over Eureka. Some of them are pretty nice.

I had four cats. Somehow nobody who was in charge of rentals wanted anybody to rent who had four cats. There seems to be a real negative feeling towards cats. Now our cats are super clean, they always use a potty box, and never make any kind of a mess. But, it was all an uphill battle trying to convince people of that. Yeah. I got ZERO calls from all the different rental agencies I went to.

Suddenly I realized I had a big problem. I had to move and had nowhere to go. I was going to be homeless because some church decided they needed money. This was not looking good.

I will tell about the search for a home in my next posting.

Have a wonderful life,
David A. Youngs