practically N E I G H B O R S

What a small world. Not long ago, I said this same thing after running in to the guy Jim knew at our local hardware shop. This week, I'm saying the same thing. In our time at Kansas, we made literally thousands of custom wood plaques. Yes, thousands. Maybe even hundreds of thousands. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration, but it sure felt that way some days.

One client that I made a plaque for a year or two ago was living in Washington DC at the time. It was an Air Force board with the tags showing their different assignments. She emailed me for a Ramstein AFB tag for her plaque, so I knew she was stationed here. This was all long before we ever knew we would be moving here as well.

About a month ago, she emailed me asking for the tag {again} as it was misplaced. Slow to respond, I finally answered her last week and let her know we were also here in Germany. Come to find out- we live in the same village. Crazy! What are the chances we'd both end up in a crazy place called Oberstaufenbach with a population of less than 300 or so?

We've actually walked past her house {about a two-minute walk from here} and her kids ride the same bus as our boys. That's even more amazing to me- in a school of 55 busses {2 or 3 stop here in our village} they're on the same bus. Her road is directly behind us, I'm sure she's our backyard neighbor. I plan to go meet her face-to-face on our next walk. 

A little country side view about five minutes from our house. I'm starting to love the fields and appreciate the beauty here that we've heard so much about... just had to survive winter to see it! Keeps getting better each day as it warms up!