November 30, 2009

Went to Coshocton to open a new bank account. Well gosh, we are locals now. Also went to the post office to tell them that we will be the new residents at
15681 County Road 429, Coshoctaon, OH 43812. Yep, that will be our new address! Strange, after living for 30 years in San Diego. But it was amazing how nice the people are here. At the bank they offered us coffee while doing the paperwork for the new account. Then the guy who helped us brought the manager of the bank over who told us that he likes to meet new account holders, and that at a Chase bank. While we filled out papers I mentioned to David not to forget to find a place to pick up a phone book and the next thing our guy takes a phone book of his desk and gave it to us. In San Diego it took about 3 years till the girls at my Union Bank recognized me even I went about three times a week to do business and had 5 different accounts there! Incredible.
Then at the post office the clerk chatted a bit and when we left he called "welcome to Coshocton"! We were speech less!
Then we went to the tourist information for the town to pick up a town map and the next thing they lady there told us the whole history of the town, showed us old pictures and explained the festivals of the year. We will be very busy because all the surrounding towns have their on festivals and we are surrounded by about hundred little towns and villages. I can hardly wait to jump with both feet into small town living.
Went back to OUR house to hang around and figure what work needs to be done. When we pulled into our drive way there was another car parked there. We thought that it might be the sellers realtor and David went to look for him.But nobody was there. He went to the barn and then came back to tell me that there are hunting equipments in the barn. Somebody must be hunting in our woods. So David called the Sheriff who arrived within about 15 min. Nice guy. We introduced our self and invited him into the house to show him around. Chatted a bit but there was really nothing he could do. He promised that they would keep an eye on our property. Also recommended to take down the "For Sale" sign, close the gate and post "No tresspassing signs". He mentioned though that they were probably sold out every where since hunting season just started and hunters had a tendency to tresspass. Nice!!! Went to Walmart and sure enough all the "no hunting" signs, "privat propert" signs and "no tresspassing" signs were sold out. Bought a couple of solid locks and will chaine the gate close
tomorrow. We have moved to the "Wild West" folks.
Tomorrow we will meet with the home inspector. Should be interesting what he has to say. Our offer is depending on our satisfaction of the home inspection. So if there is something serious going on with the house we can back out. Should be okay though.
Read on tomorrow!