Living

with Jim and Gayle

August, 2020

CORONAVIRUS

The world is sad.  We are sad without Max.  At times, missing him is still almost unbearable.

We continue to self isolate as much as possible.  I do most grocery shopping online with pickup at the store.   This works really well.

We continue to settle into our new house and our new life.  The house "suits" us.  We feel very comfortable in it.  We continue to nest.  Most days we can get the truck into the garage but we haven't yet gotten the garage stuff (like yard tools and Jim's saws) out of storage.  Before we do that, Jim wants to paint the garage which is a HUGE task.

We stored a teak wall unit for almost 20 years.  We didn't think it would fit in the new house, but it fit perfectly.
Jim assembling it (or sneaking a nap...).


All put together with the collectibles and our teak table.


I washed all of the windows, inside and out (except for the high stained glass windows).  It wasn't a bad job with the house being single story.


Jim installed a garbage disposal (or maybe was just sneaking another nap).


He's started redoing the garage.  This is a big job which includes cleaning and patching the walls and ceiling, taping and "mudding" nail holes and joints, and finally painting.  But first he remodeled the enclosure for the hot water tank, water softener, and furnace to give us more room to store stuff.


After the enclosure modification, we taped, mudded, and sanded holes and seams.  Jim had to be reminded that it was "only a garage" as his perfectionism started showing.


The first day of painting.


A second coat will be required.  Unfortunately, a lot of water stains are bleeding through so a stain block will have to be put on them before we can do the second coat (and we still have the first coat to finish).

A bit of whimsy in the backyard.


We sold the motorhome this month.  A bittersweet moment as signaled the end of different life.


  Selling the motorhome was good news/bad news.  We didn't want the worry of it and the need to find a place to store it.  However, selling it means that we don't have a place to live when not at the house, such as fishing!  We had thought to buy a small travel trailer that would be less expensive and less worry.  Unfortunately, during this pandemic, everybody and his brother decided to buy a trailer so that they could get away but not stay in a hotel or eat out.  The result is few, if any used trailers and an extremely low inventory of new trailers.  What is available exceeds our budget.  The result is no place to stay while fishing so probably no or only limited fishing this year.  This is disappointing as fall salmon fishing is one of the things we look forward to the most.