{"id":4219,"date":"2018-07-07T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T03:19:00","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-5-7-6-3-2-3-2-3-2-7-2-13-14-2-5-2-6-7-2-7-5-7-7-7-7-2-6-7-2-6-8-7-7-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=4219","title":{"rendered":"Song 350 – Downsizing"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”]
\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>[nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Song 350″][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_350_160524_Downsizing.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n[\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_350_160524_Downsizing.m4a” text=”Download Audio File” margin_top=”10″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_350_160524_Downsizing.pdf” text=”Download Guitar Chords”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]This song was not used as the music for a Psalm. Then, all of a sudden, it was time to leave my home of 30 years<\/a> and to move back to\u00a0my real home<\/a>. After 5 \u00bd years in Dallas, 4 \u00bd years in Sugar Land and Missouri City, and 30 years in Katy (actually a Houston address), for a total of 40 years of wandering in the wilderness of Texas, it was time to move back home to Cedar City, Utah<\/a><\/u>. I was told over and over, when I was growing up, the red mud in Cedar Valley gets in your blood, and you eventually have to come home. Mom (Maxine Shirts<\/a><\/u>) turned 90, she needed us home. A temple was announced in Cedar<\/a><\/u>, and within a week we had purchased a condo, which was 2 doors from Mom, and within a month had sold our house at 1307 Emerald Green Lane<\/a><\/u>. The logistics of downsizing was much harder than a scout camp (see Song 028 \u2013 Fathers and Sons<\/a>, \u00a0Song 029 \u2013 Simonton Blues<\/a><\/u>, Song 030 \u2013 El Rancho Cima<\/a><\/u>, Song 031 \u2013 Camp Strake<\/a><\/u>, Song 032 \u2013 Find The Seed<\/a><\/u>, Song 033 \u2013 Camp Liendo<\/a><\/u>, Song 034 \u2013 Digital Camera<\/a><\/u>, Song 036 \u2013 Hagen\u2019s Escape<\/a><\/u>, Song 037 \u2013 Brosig<\/a><\/u>, Song 038 \u2013 Turners<\/a><\/u>, Song 039- Stephen F. Austin<\/a><\/u>, Song 040 \u2013 Ice on Tents<\/a><\/u>, Song 043 \u2013 Twelve Disciples<\/a><\/u>, Song 049 \u2013 Welcome to Big Bend<\/a><\/u>, Song 050 – Tribes<\/a>,\u00a0Song 105 \u2013 Kelly\u2019s Pond<\/a><\/u>, and Song 163 \u2013 Seminary Trek<\/a><\/u>) or a Science Camp<\/a><\/u>. At least I have had some experience in both of these logistical challenges. There was a sale at the local U-Haul storage place on Baker Road by our Post Office and the I-10 frontage road. They let you use one of their biggest storage units for a month, for the price of one of their smallest units. By the end of the month you had to move everything into a smaller unit. So we had a 40 foot x 15 foot x 15 foot storage unit to act as a staging area. We cleaned out a lot of the house, putting everything in the large storage unit. Then sold the house the first weekend it was shown, selecting the largest of 6 offers, each above our asking price. We rented an apartment at the Apartments on Barker Cypress road in the Barker Reservoir, and moved what we needed to have in the apartment to live there. The photo to the left, and the extended photo, show us emptying and loading the rest of what was in the house for the first truck load to Cedar City. I had helped a lot of people move, and it was very nice having kids, and friends show up to help load the truck. We spent about a year with an apartment in Houston and our condo in Cedar City. One of the members of the Hillcrest Ward in Cedar City learned we were living both places and said, “When you decide you are moving here, we will take time to get to know you.” That conversation motivated me to close down the Houston apartment. About a year after we moved into the third-floor apartment (see Song 351 – Enjoy the View<\/a>), Andrea and I sold our Saturn and drove the second truck with the rest of our stuff in it to Cedar City (see Song 362 – The Move<\/a>). And thus, we finished our downsizing.<\/p>\n

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