Where the heck have I been?

We are certainly past due for a check-in, since the last time we actually had a conversation was back in March, when we moved the clocks ahead. let me see if we can do a quick timeline of haps since then:

• April 1 & 2: First open house for selling the Donovan condo. Meh. No good offers.
• April 10: Take house off-market while we re-group
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• May 7 & 8: Two off-market showings - no action
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• May 20: Coco's Grad party
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• June 2 & 3: Second open house weekend
• June 8: Solid offer - we accepted
• June 11 - 13: House hunting in Tacoma
• June 14: Make offer on Ferdinand house
  
• June 15: Offer accepted
• June 23: Donovan sale closes, we stay as "renters" (no rent)
• June 29: Ferdinand house closes
• July 1: Pick up keys to Ferdinand and move a little junk in
• July 8: At Ferdinand to start floor refinishing and move a little more junk in
• July 13: U-Haul to Ferdinand to bring plants & precious and have internet installed
• July 14: Bellingham Good-bye Fest
  
• July 19: Movers take all our stuff; we spend night at Ferdinand

 

• July 20: Movers deliver all our stuff
• July 21: Walter back at Donovan for final clean/move-out
• July 22: "Unpacking Sprint" begins - major move-in work daily
  
• July 23: Build IKEA bookcases

 

• July 29: Coco does art studio organization with Kristin B
• August 1 & 2: Dishwasher/disposal installation
• August 8: Sprint ends; house looks lived-in. Slowed our roll

So, after a sloooow start, things just went hucklety-buck and all of a sudden we live in Tacoma.

 

And that was just the bare-bones of the move; we have already had visits to the new place from Brenda and Courtney and Kristen and Karmin and Jay and Robb and Jackie & Jeff and we have visited Titlow Beach and Jefferson Park and the Lincoln District Food Walk and Point Defiance Park and Jack Hyde Park and the Chinese Reconciliation memorial and I met with Scott & Jim & Steve B for lunch and we went to the Summer Fest and Coco went swimming in Kandle Park and of course Gig Harbor is just minutes away so we have seen Ann & David and Bev a bunch and hoo-boy have we been busy.

Coco has had a whole side-project of her own, remodeling "The Birdhouse" outbuilding into a therapy office, and her practice should kick into gear right after Labor Day.

 

 

As for me, we shall see how "semi" my retirement becomes or whether I relax into the indolent life of the neighborhood's new Sidewalk Superintendent.