update

I'm sure that some of you have noticed, I've been away for a couple of weeks.

I have been involved in preparations to sell the family home in order to purchase another. The effort to bring our current home up to where I'm comfortable showing it combined with the bank, legal and the endless tours of prospected homes and then of course, work...have left me with practically zero on-line time.

My house will be listed this Saturday and things will calm down somewhat after that, hopefully allowing me to get back to the Temple very soon.

Br. John, Br. Jon, & Br. Kana...RyuJin has expressed an interest in the vacant Arch-Bishop slot of the Buddhist Rite.

If he should still want the position, I endorse his bid for the office completely . I welcome the help and the fresh viewpoint he can bring into the rite.

Master Garm
Cardinal Bishop of the Buddhist Rite.

As far as I know - one (maybe obviously) need to be a member of the clergy 1st - and to do that, you need to be a knight, this is a reasonably new prerequisite we've had to install in order to stop the 'one stop tax dodge' clergy and kinda makes sense if you think about it - how can a 'leader' of a group not be 'ranked' and have any credibility.

However, ryujin is (as far as im aware) more or less 'complete' in terms of the initiates classes so Im sure something could be worked out.

I cant/won/dont have the final word on matters (unless like the aforementioned members it is an emergency and requires on the spot decision) but what Id like to propose for discussion is perhaps something along the lines of 'acting' head of buddhist (much like I am acting head of humanist) but I do feel a crash course in clergy matters would be prudent (if ryujin is both still interested in the role and willing to have to do some cramming etc)

This is NOT the usual route such things take - but any problem is only as big as one allows it to be

MTFBWY - A

PS - Sincere apologies for slow reaction tiem to this post - basically Ive been afk for the last few days for medical reasons

it wouldn't be my first time cramming....it's how i usually do all my college courses....i've been training with Br.John for i think about a week now, as to the initiates training i completed everything 2 weeks(i think) prior to the updated listing, it wouldn't take me too long to do the couple of new additions, or at least i don't think it would....i'll take another look to make certain, and probably get started on it tomorrow afternoon when i finish working on my car for the day.

I have no problem with your being ordained. You are down to earth enough for that but basic requirements are being a Jedi Knight. First you have to be ordained, then ordained Bishop, then appointed the post of Arch Bishop.

Hi everyone, just a quick update on the selling of our home. We've had a very busy time getting the house ready to show, but it's now been on the market for almost a week. We've had four showings so far and another is set up for 10:00 am tomorrow (Sat march 27) no offers yet but keeping fingers crossed.

We lost out on a nice home that we had our eye on but thats how the house hunting cookie crumbles .

While our local realator is showing our house tomorrow, Sharon and I are going to be with our other broker looking at another property. It looks to be a good place. Four bedrooms, 24 acres, four stall horse barn, tack building, garage (for me ) and with about fourty minutes to work, I drive thirty minutes now so the extra ten is not too bad - I love to drive anyways.

If you want to see our selling home, the link is:

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9263005

I hope to be back on more frequently soon...

Wish us luck guys!!!

MTFBWUA

Good lucky on selling your home. By the way your home is beautuful.

May The Force Be With You

Good luck on selling your home. By the way your home is beautiful.

May The Force Be With You

you can have alot of fun on 24 acres... :lol:

Hi everyone, here’s another update…

Our house sold for 2 grand below asking in seven days. The horse farm was a bust, nice place but a couple of really dumpy :ohmy: neighbours so…

There are two properties that we are considering, one is across from lake Nosbonsing two acres with lake views and access across the road. Large farm-like garage, but the house, while being able to handle the family is small and I would have to add on right away. I could probably get a slab on grade foundation in by the winter but the framing of the addition would have to wait until next summer. This house would put me closer to work by about 10 minutes than my current drive.

The other is a wooded property about 1.5 acres with a small river (about 30 feet across) just across the road. (great for my kayak ) and there is a modern two car garage. The house is four bedrooms and really needs no work at the moment. But this one this puts me ten minutes further than my current drive.

Oh well, decisions decisions…the conditions on the offer on our current home will be lifted this Monday and when it’s official, we’ll choose, one or the other...less drive & construction or more drive and more relaxation...hmmm I think I know which way I'm leaning

Till next time, MTFBWUA…

could always flip a coin and let fate decide....:laugh:
yeah i know it's a cop-out for deciding but while the coin is in the air you'll discover which you really want ....hmmmm i remember a post about that somewhere here... :laugh:

Home is where the heart is as they say - id always say go for the property you love the most, not the one thats the nearest to work.

Look at it this way, you may change job and get work nearer to home sometime in the future

Its only ten minutes - not like an extra hour

Dont forget the spare room for all your jedi acquaintances to come and visit you

MTFBWY - A

I wish you the best of luck. Please let us know what happens.

We are still looking, we were an hour away from closing the deal on the house beside the river and the lake but is was not to be so. Prior bidders who had a conditional offer that was expiring decided that knowing we were going to take the property...they would risk carrying two mortgages rather than let me have it. Oh well back to the search, I have upped my search to 250k range, it opens up so many more properties, its on the upper end of my comfort zone but there is really not much out there under 200k.

My wife and I will be looking at a century-old victorian home, 469 feet of river frontage on five acres, brick three stories four bedrooms, and in the rear two one-bedroom appartments currently rented (five or six onths left on the larger lease). Asking 249,900

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9334917



On Thursday we will be visiting a 34 acre home three bedrooms lots of land but it may be too close to the highway...I will have to listen very carefully when we're there. Asking 259,900

http://www.realtor.ca/propertyDetails.aspx?propertyId=9118943



Wish us luck!!

tell you what - i'll squat outside in a tin shack - make tonnes of mess n noise

then you can haggle for a large discount - pay me in food n coffee for the 'work' and the jobs a goodun

or plan B - keep looking

Im sure the right place is out there somewhere for you all - as you said - it just wasnt to be

Probably had termites or squirrels anyway

MTFBWY - A

After the sooo many weeks of excitement and dissipointment, I am very pleased to say that we have found and closed the deal for our new home.

We decided and purchased a home on 32 pine wooded acres complete with a stream boasting an eight foot water fall. *very Zen*

I apologize for being away for so long, but with the realty, financial, insurance and laywer meetings behind, I am looking forward be getting back to Temple business this weekend.

Thats great news.
Glad to have you back.

nice....lots of property to have wheeled fun on and a waterfall...can't beat that

So, we are now in the house, and are still living out of the boxes. It took almost a week to get the cable (sat) up and running, but when the tech was done he said he wasn't the guy for the internet...go figure, same company, different tech...now I have to set up another visit for the internet. Betcha they ding me with another service call bill

I will visiting when I can from work until my home can be brought on-line and into the 1990's it's like the friggin' dark ages right now :laugh:

Been very busy since the move, some reno's that couldn't be left - I didn't see the need when I was buying but now living in the house 24/7 they just couldn't be postponed; smelly stinky carpet now being replaced with laminate flooring, not as nice as hardwood but looks close and I can install it fairly easily over my evenings.

I purchased a snowplow for my blazer (the driveway is about 300 hundred feet long) and that needs to be connected to the vehicle (tinker tinker - weld weld)...and as if I need another item to add to my to do list, the previous owners took all the firewood, so I'm out cutting and splitting as much dead fall I can find at the moment, I may still have to buy 10 chords of wood to get us through the first winter just the same. Seems a shame, 32 acres of woods and I have to buy firewood :laugh:

We have another addition to our household - we adopted a 2 month old King Sheppard Puppy. The kids named her Poncho and all is well with the whole family, puppy, dogs, cats and humans alike.

Anyhoo...I'm still here and I will post some pictures and I hope to be back soon. I feel the need for an apprentice
brewing...someone I can assignment torture through the winter months while I warm my feet by the fire wink wink nudge nudge.

MTFBWUA

Greeting Master Garm,

Not that I'm appling for the job but I'm sure whom ever desides to become your apprentiice will be throughly schooled in the way of the path. It sounds like your in a wonderful home.

Sammy Jay

Long life, good health

you would think they'd train all their service techs to cover all aspects of an install/setup that way they could work more efficiently....when i worked for the cable company i was shown how to set up both cable and internet...even the verizon techs know how to work the cable/internet/phone stuff....

that's kind of ironic to have all that wooded property and still have to buy wood, it's like living on a lake and having to buy water....sounds like you're going to have a lot of fun on a chunk of property that size....must be nice...here in florida all the good property has been bought up and forclosed :laugh: