Garden City missionary digs

 This post may be a little boring for some of you but our family is always interested in what our living situation looks like.  So I will give you a tour of our Garden City Duplex before we move to Scott City in a couple of weeks.

We live about 10 minutes out of the city up on a little rise where a builder has developed about 20 duplexes and is very picky about who they rent to so it has been kept very nice.  The second garage door is our place 1244 Shannon Road, Garden City, Kansas 67846 (in case anyone wants to give the postman something to deliver to our very empty mailbox  :)

Missionary apartments don't need much in the way of furniture so this is the extent of ours in the living room.  Walls are so bare!  I miss the lovely artwork and pictures of the Savior we had in our Guatemalan temple apartment.  We also have two folding chairs and four dining room chairs if we have a Family Home Evening with our students.

We have two tables like this, one in the dining room and one in the extra bedroom which we use as a study room.  Two wooden dining room chairs in each room.  Functional, hard, and adequate.  I'm glad I stuck in that table runner from our China mission and wish I had bought some of the beautiful cloth in Guatemala.  

 This is our small but efficient kitchen.  You can see that the biggest challenge is so little counter space, so one of our first purchases was a stand for the microwave to be in the dining room to free up some counter space.

The laundry room is in the passage way from the garage to the kitchen and must include a place for the kitchen trash container as there is nowhere to put it in the kitchen.  We have a few other rooms like a small bathroom and a bedroom but they aren't anything unusual to take a picture of so I will just leave them to  your imagination.

We love to take our morning walks around the development and down the country roads.  It has been so rainy here lately that this is what we found one morning.  I thought it looked like a fairy ring.

Can't you just imagine elves cavorting around and on top of these cute things in the moonlight?

You will probably see lots of pictures of sunflowers as I love them so much.  This is just down the road apiece on the corner of Farmland Road and Shulman.  Aren't they gorgeous?