In March this year, my little darling (and he hates it when I refer to him as "my little darling" -- HA HA HA) started to work for PUB QUIZ USA. I posted about it PUB QUIZ USA
Carlson has been going to Hood River every Wednesday evening, a two-hour drive (roundtrip), to host a pub quiz. I go along for the ride, literally. It's a GORGEOUS drive.
This past Wednesday, Deb -- a bartender -- told him something about her dreams. An amazing story. He asked her to email him, and with permission here is Deb's email as written:
"Carlson,(please do not disclose my last name)
I am Deb,just a bartender/crepe maker at the Passport Cafe/Horse & Hound British Pub in Hood River and are very excited to share this news with your blog readers!Every wednesday we have pubquiz and have for many years now and thanks to everybody coming in regularly (and tipping as they do) my 1942 cedar cabin right by the beach in Ocean City,Wa is paid off this month!!! That is only part of the news, once we finish renovation(which will be accelerated moreso once there will be NO MORE mortgage payments!) in a couple years-I hope(thanks in part to volunteers and I owe a lot to my electrical engineer/woodworker "jack of all trades" fiance,Greg)the cabin will become "Longacre Beach Retreat", a place for cancer patients and their families to stay (free of charge to them) to make memories with them and/or defer the costs of hotel/motel stays to be close to the treatment center or hospital to support their loved one in their time of need.This endeavor will be a non-profit supported by the medical staff from cancer hospitals around Seattle who will rent the cabin as "Longacre at Ocean City" to enjoy with their families knowing that "X" number of nights will be provided to cancer patients thanks to their paid stay! They will also be my "eye's" referring patients in need to me & I will "pencil them in" a reservation to enjoy a "break" from their treatments and enjoy the healing that I feel only the beach can provide!!!!
I shop clearance sales and buy "mistake" paints(mis-tints) and buy new building supplies only when there is no alternative, utilizing very "green" renovation practices....in the end I am suspecting the whole project when complete will have only cost myself under sixty thousand dollars(the cabin & more than an acre of wooded land, I aquired for under thirty grand) including interest and the full renovation.Thanks for listening to my excited ramblings(there is a pic of the cabin below),DEB-The British Pub/Longacre Beach Retreat(Ocean City,Wa.)"
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I've met Deb. She's a nice lady, and we had no idea that she was working on her dreams!
It makes the 2-hour drive seem worth it!
Deb has a heart o' gold. And I'm reminded of this passage: "Blessed are the meek" . . .
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