A plan comes together, at long last.


Feb 23, 2020

We have had numerous promises of ‘completion dates’ on our ADU. The final inspection was Friday and we passed. Now there are some non-code items to finish; painting, punch list items and clean up. Hopefully, all will be completed by Tuesday. We leave Friday for Mexico and hopefully, I will be posting on a more regular basis.

We have grown weary of construction dust, dirt and debris that finds its way into every room of the house even with the two doors to the construction closed. I sweep regularly. All the floor mats are constantly dirty. I spend time carrying them outside to sweep them clean only to have them get dirty within minutes. I look forward to the end of construction. OK, enough griping.

This week we had sunshine every day so I spent time daily weeding the back-yard shrubs/bushes. I don’t think they have ever been weeded. In some cases, the weeds were taller than the bushes. I managed to complete 12 bushes including five blueberry bushes. I have about 15-18 more to do and it will be time and weather dependent.

Given that almost everything we own resides in packed boxes and bins, packing for our trip will take some time and we need to devote some time to planning ahead. Fortunately, we don’t leave until Friday night after dinner.

We are eager to get organized for moving into the ADU (pied-a -Terre sounds better, doesn’t it?) after our return. Then we can clean the house and hire a property management company to handle finding a tenant for the house rental. Ron has been making shelves for the garage to increase storage capacity since most of our belongings will be stored in the garage. We have downsized twice now; from 3000 sq. ft. in Vancouver in 2014, to 1281 sq. ft. in Portland in 2015 and now to 400 sq. ft. back in Vancouver.  I am curious to see how to adjust to a one-room part-time adobe.

I hope to post on this site more frequently while we are in Mexico form Feb 28th-April 7th.



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