Thursday, November 6, 2008

Should we move?

So I know its been a long long time since I last wrote. But thats about how much free time I have. Kinda sad huh?

Anyway, so whats new with us? Well, first off, we got a new dog. Dakota. Its a purebred Miniature American Alaskan husky. We got it from a friend of mine cause they didn't have room for it. And us living on a farm... we have the room. He liked our other dog Skamper, but we have some bad news. We had to put Skamper down. She got 6 of the farmers piglets. Before last springer she got our 3 ducks and 7 chickens, but those were ours and she is a hunting dog, so we figured we'd let that slide. But pigs are bigger and don't have wings. Josh was sad, but it had to be done.

Besides that, we are experimenting on a bathroom here. Feeling guilty about the pigs, we decided we'd help out old Robert and do some work for him. He has been meaning for over a year now to fix a shower that caved in, in one of the bathrooms. Well, We are tiling it for him. Its not that big and once its done, it will be nice cause then we can have guests and not have them come into our bedroom and bathroom to shower. Then 2 of the 3 bathrooms here will be fully functioning... :D

Oh, so back to the question... Should Josh and I move to Fiji?

Here's the background. Josh has a guy in his unit that lives down there. He partly owns a big resort there and told Josh he could have a job if he wants it. He could do anything he wanted. He wants to be a Scuba Diving teacher. He just has to get certified, but that's easy.

He could also be a tour guide, and lead people on hikes or if he could get his pilots license, fly people who want to go sky diving. I could see Josh doing this all, and he would be good at it.

So here's the twist. Josh has now had his business for a little over a year (roofing), and he has been steady with that. But he only has like 3 jobs left and he is worried about having work for the winter. And now that Obama is president, we will probably loose it due to tax increasing and being forced to provide insurance to employees. Also with the economy the way it is, no one can afford to have their roofs redone, or they choose to go the cheap way and do it themselves.

I think it would be fun to move there, but only for like 2 or 3 years... I wouldn't want to go through the hassel of having kids in a foriegn country and half way around the world (FYI Fiji is North of Austrailia). I think my parents would hate to have their first grandkid so far away and so would Josh's parents.

So ya, what do you think? I have a poll on the side...