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NorthWind Annual Report 2023-2024

Pictures from March

February in Pictures

February in Pictures Another Canadian Landmark Isaac really wanted to scoot in the snow Superhero Costumes Bubba’s not quite as big as Papa Snow hike Snow covered bridge Tiny Little Christmas Tree Cold ride home from a walk The boys learning piano! Snow-periment! Stephen absolutely confused by a BibleProject video in Korean CJ likes cantaloupe…
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Junior youth group art project

January Happenings

December

We spent most of December in various stages of quarantine. Covid struck our church hard, taking two elders. We were fortunate to be vaccinated and have something a bit worse than a cold, but nearly as bad as we’ve had the flu. The kids had a very unusual loss of appetite, but otherwise were unfazed…
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About a Week in Canada!

It’s been about a week since we arrived in Canada, and things are just starting to settle down a bit, including the kids. (Except that as I write this we are being attacked by Nerf darts.) Traveling We survived the drive remarkably well. We left Pennsylvania at 5 am Saturday the 3rd of July and…
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CANADA!

Trip pictures! There was room in the U-Haul for more stuff, but we were only taking what we knew we’d use. It was packed well and nothing moved the whole 1500 mile drive. Jeff’s family on our swimming day! Mackinac Bridge. (Stopped for construction.) Our stop in Christmas was a bit rustic! Christmas, Michigan. It…
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To Rent or Not to Rent (A Box Truck)

After finding out that the $10,000 U-Haul trucks weren’t an option for getting our stuff to Canada, we started looking to buy one somewhere else…anywhere else. It made sense to buy a truck so we wouldn’t have to be in a hurry driving and could leave our stuff in the truck while we quarantine for…
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To Buy a U-Haul

We received our work permits on Wednesday and sometime after midnight that night we suddenly came to the conclusion that renting a U-Haul would not work and we should buy an old box truck. We saw that the U-Haul store in Horsham, less than an hour away, was selling multiple retired trucks that sounded like…
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What Would You Do with $1 Million?

Everyone’s had a half joking conversation about what we’d do if we won the lottery (even though we don’t play) or got a big inheritance (from a great uncle we don’t know exists). But Jeff and I were dead serious a few years ago when we decided we would buy a field and make a…
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