NEW ARRIVALS-SUMMER ARRIVAL Day-1
It was a calm clear sunny 1660 summer day in Glen Harbor when two shipwreck survivors found their way there and decided to claim the large empty residential lot they saw there near Garden House.It was a great deal bigger than anything they were expecting to be able to have in their old homeland or in the place they'd briefly called home in their journey to get to North America to settle down in the town they would be calling home for generations and that their neighbors would call their home for generations.The first immigrants to arrive were originally Russian and left there to escape from severe overcrowding and a severe famine caused by crop failures.The people in their old country were starving and even wealthier ones had trouble finding food to eat.Their new hometown was to be a place of hope and give them a brighter future for their kids.
Twelve year old Eli Jankowsky arrived to the large empty lot with her twelve year old husband Ami
Jankowsky and they both knew they had to work with this empty lot and start turning it into a great home to start their family in and to raise their kids.They had to look around and see what there was to work with on the lot and find a way to manage themselves and improve their lives until they got the house built and got themselves settled into their new lives. Eli thought they should pack up the laptop computers on the tables in personal inventories and put the tables and chairs into the household inventory.
Ami thought they should make sure they were correctly dressed for the current weather and for the current season that they were dealing with.They packed things up into their household inventory and got themselves into clothing more appropriate for hot summer weather so they wouldn't overheat in clothing too heavy for a hot summer day.They both looked around at their lot and saw that it was big and had plenty of room for their house when they were ready to build a house and to get it furnished after it was done.Eli's first plan was for them to head over to the library to find books about gardening to read and learn about gardening before doing it.
Ami began to run towards the garden near the covered picnic park out by the hills and it was a long waysoff and he took a long time getting there.Eli also walked to the garden she was working in and hers was close by so she didn't take very long to get there and was able to start working sooner.She was already working on the fruit trees while Ami was still running to the garden he was working with.
Eli and Ami couldn't remember when they first met because it was likely they'd met as babies and began playing together as toddlers.They also were growing up together as children and older kids who ended up getting married as nine year olds.
Eli Jankowsky was working on the garden and had finished with the fruit trees and it was getting very hot outside with the sun beating down on her head for the long hours she spent working on the garden.She was hoping that they could start earning money right away even if they did get much the first day out because they'd had to spend most of it studying and learning. She was also planning to have them spend the night at home if they could or at Garden Market if it got too late to get home and get themselves to bed.They both knew they wouldn't want to stay up very late at night because it would mean getting a late start on their new day.
Ami Jankowsky finally made it to the garden where he wanted to work and it was already late in the day and he didn't want to stay out all night trying to get everything harvested so he would just gather what he could and start heading back towards Garden Market to get his produce sold and earn the money he was supposed to earn from selling produce. Eli had also had a money tree to harvest from and that would help a lot in contributing towards their savings until they saved up at least 10000$ and could finally start building their house.The reason for them saving that much up to start with was because they would want furniture.
Eli and Ami Jankowsky both got themselves to the grocery store and managed to get their produce sold for cash.Ami only made 24$ while Eli managed to earn 250$ and extra from the money tree.They were both starving and wanted to eat at the diner though they couldn't afford that because they needed to have their house built and to have savings left over before they could do that. They never thought that way in the old country because they'd just be wanting to have something to eat and wouldn't care so much about having a place to live and get indoors when the weather turned cold like it often did when winter hit.
It was already 7:30 when they both had to use the washrooms and ended up needing to find something to eat after they got done with the washrooms and it was 8PM by then. They both took canned soup and decided to eat that for dinner before going to bed.They were both starving and looking for something to eat for dinner that night though it was going to be 9PM by the time they'd eaten and would be too late for them to get home and use their sleeping bags to sleep in that night.
Eli found the bunks and decided to sleep there because it was already 9PM and she was tired out from the hard day they ended up having that day.Ami was still washing up the soup bowls while Eli got into the top bunk and got herself to sleep.Ami was just a few minutes behind her in getting to bed and he took the lower bunk. Eli and Ami Jankowsky were spending their first night sleeping at the store lot instead of going home because they were too tired and it had gotten too late.
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Nice start to your story, Tad. All the best to Eli and Ami as they begin their new lives together.
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