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 Hello, My name is Amanda Martin-Shaver and welcome to Birddogs Profits. James and I were internet penpals for approx 3 years. I am a New Zealander and James is an American, from Charlotte, North Carolina, where he grew up. I traveled over to the USA back in 1999 to visit many of my penpals as possible in person. I had a wonderful trip traveling 11 States and a one day trip into Canada while I was here. I met James in person when he was living in Redding CA, and helped him to move up to Springfield, Oregon. I went back home to New Zealand for a year and was a student graduating as Level 3 (LPN) Care Giver. James and I became engaged and I flew back to the States where we soon got married. James and I have many similar interests and definately similar in our humour and slant on life! We both love the Lord Jesus Christ and have our own relationship with Him which is a little different as we are in different developments of our growth. We are not affiliated with any church denomination as we are spiritual and not religious, and not comfortable with Church Denomination Doctrine which has many man-made attributes added to the mix. We believe in God Almighty, The Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit - 3 distinct personalities in One. I have two adult children a daughter Kerie, 28 and son Daryl, 26, from my previous 20 year marriage. Kerie has worked in the States and working in Colorado, Nov 06 - Apr 07 over 6 years. She is presently in France working this past winter and now summer 2010 Daryl had not been to the States yet as he was still completing his apprenticeship and was to be finished 2007. In August 07 he was hit by a van while he was riding his motorbike and sustained leg injuries that will leave him with permanant limitations to walking and many of his sporting interests. Nov 2008, Daryl flew out to the States and worked in Vail, Colorado on his first trip. His memory has improved immensely along with his other injuries with his work and schedules. During the summer he travelled to several countries in South America and Europe to come back to Colorado for the winter term and he is back in Europe again for this summer (2010) On 3 February 2007 we relocated to Nebraska where we have bought our first home a American Foursquare farm house which it needs restoration work and sits on 4 acres.   Our house before we started working on her We refinanced 2008 and while my two wrists were in plaster from my recent fall and with the back injuries I could not walk around too much so sat in the lazyboy chair most of the day - Had new carpet fitted in the lounge. Had all the downstairs windows replaced with double glazed, put down new carpet in the lounge. James did the ceiling in July in the lounge, we put a free standing wood fireplace. We have lots of wood so will not run out for some time. The electrical fuse box was replaced in August with updated new as the old had antique glass fuses and blew out from overloading during the winter. The Power Board changed all the outside wiring, new power poll and their fuse box as these were old and shorting out. Electricity has been good since. The carpet was fitted in late June which we were very happy with the work however the following week we had our windows fitted which was the biggest headache. We went with Sears and they contract our their work whereby Amber came to measure the old windows and they would be costume made to fit. After about 10 days the windows were ready and Amber and her step son came out to start work on the Wednesday, taking out the old windows and woodwork framing which we asked to keep as well as all the windows. They got the old out and the new in and still had some of the finishing touches of trim etc to finish off inside, but the weather was clouding over so they decided to go outside and get started on the aluminium trim work outside. They were half way through when it started to drizzle then get wetter. I was annoyed as the stepson kept coming in and out onto our brand new carpet with wet and muddy shoes and making a big mess in the doorway. Anyway, the weather got worse so they decided to call it a day and they packed up and left saying they would be back tomorrow to finish and clean up Amber called on the phone the next day to say that she would not be able to come out as on the way home her horse-trailer she uses for all her equipment had got a puncture and distroyed the tire and rim, she would not be able to make it until Friday On Friday I did not hear from her nor over the weekend, however her husband called around on the Monday and he would be coming with his team of men to finish the job the next week. Amber was real busy - I never did get a phone call from her to apologise and make right for leaving us in the lurch! The team of men came and finished the outside and when I showed them the unfinished trim etc on the inside he said that it was done!! They left gaping holes with a little bit of fibre-glass insulation where the wood window frame use to be and it did not look finished at all, and I still had leaks! I was not happy to be expected to pay $6,000 and have this workmanship and abandonment I had to call Sears and complain whereby they sent out a husband and wife team from Illonis, two States over to finish off the trim and seal inside and out which took them several hours Sears after some thought wrote to us and wrote off the debt of the windows as they had charged Amber for her breach of contract, however this has not stopped their lenders GE Money from trying to exhort money from us with repeated accounts sent to us and even after several phone calls to them to explain what happened they have still not resolved this account Amanda Martin-Shaver 
Amanda Martin-Shaver |