Wednesday, July 5th, 2017….. Today
we go sign escrow papers and get the wire transfer done. I woke up early –
again another anxious day! – and did my walk while the girls got ready. We drove up to Lebanon and went to Apple Tree
for breakfast and then went to our 10:00am meeting/signing at the escrow
office. That only took a few minutes.
Aimee met us there and told Penny no response yet on her offer. We had an 11:30am appointment at our bank in
Corvallis to get the wire transfer done.
We were early and had to wait for him to come in but we still got in and
out in a few minutes. We had the rest of
the afternoon free until we had to take Penny to the airport. We stopped at a few furniture sales stores
just to look around. One was mostly
imported stuff but we did stop at one place where everything was made right
there in the factory from Oregon sourced wood.
Very nice but very pricey! We continued on home and threw chicken pies
in the convection oven for an easy meal before we headed off to the
airport. She is stressed out about the
offer but excited about it too. Fingers
crossed. We came back home and rested for the evening and caught up on the Tour
de France. Aimee called us later in the evening to let us know escrow funded
and we could get our keys tomorrow at the house! Yaaay!
Later, I took sis to the airport and on the way Aimee called with the
seller’s counteroffer. Still a bit off
on the deal so I dropped her off with a bunch of numbers swimming around in her
head. She will do her financial
planning, crunch the numbers and come up with an answer she’s comfortable
with. Again, we’ll see. I stopped at Costco on the way home to check
on their beds. We still need to buy one
for the guest room, along with furniture for that room. Just checking at this time. I got home and Lydia was ready for ice cream
so we headed to Coburg and got some waffle cones and celebrated a bit!
Thursday, July 6th, 2017….. Even
though we wanted to get there asap, we slept in a bit and then got the rig
prepped for travel. We left around
9:00am and decided to not tow since it was only a short drive. At about 9:40 we turned down our new street
and into our new driveway and parked at our new home!
Aimee put the keys in her
lock box and yesterday gave us the code. I got the key to the workshop and
figured out where to park the rig so I could plug in. We found out that Walt will be coming back
with a rented trailer to haul his jeep away so I parked to give him room to get
it out. Problem was I wanted to park right where the jeep was parked. So I just pushed it out enough so that Walt
could get to it easily and I could slide in next to the workshop. The workshop
does not currently have 30 or 50 amp service so we are limited to usage on the
20 amp service. Our plan is to use the rig to sleep in and to watch tv in and
we’ll shower and cook in the house. I need to call in an electrician to get
that wiring updated and it’s on our list. We leave on 7/10 to fly to Vegas for
Jeff’s wedding. Our three pods get here
on 7/11 but we are not required to be here so we gave instructions on where to
place each of them in the driveway. We get back late on 7/12 so we’ll be able
to start unloading on 7/13. Aimee came by to pick up her lockbox that had the
keys in it so we spent some time with her before she had to leave. First time she’s seen our coach so now she
wants a motorhome! We spent the rest of
the day moving clean/dirty clothes, towels, toiletries, food, and paperwork
into the house. Then we started looking at where we wanted to start our
work. I need to familiarize myself with
the systems both in the house and in the garage and workshop. We have a crawlspace under the house as well
as attic access. Walt left a small
ladder (and I’ll use it tomorrow for the attic) but I did take a peek under the
house. Everything looks ok from the
entrance but I’ll leave exploration for another day. I had checked out the
irrigation system the other day on the walk thru so I now need to look at each
of the timer boxes (one in the garage and one in the workshop) so I know which
zones work where and that was pretty straight forward. The drip system probably has a mile of lines
so that will take a while! As you can see from the picture Walt did not mow
before he sold the mower!
Later in the afternoon, Walt's finance's grandson came by with a trailer to pick up the jeep.It took us an hour or more to winch it up and get it tied down for the trip back to Redmond. Hope he makes it!
The grass area
and fields are really high. My mower doesn’t get delivered until 7/17. I
couldn’t stand the weeds around the motorhome so when we went for lunch we kept
going to Coast Farm/Ranch Supply and I bought a Stihl gas powered string
trimmer and gas cans and earmuffs, etc. They pre-ran it for me and showed me a
little about it. Tomorrow I will chop
down some of the weeds around the workshop so at least we will have a path to
the rv! I did manage to get a Directv
box hooked up in the house. We did some
calculating about rooms we needed tvs in and decided we needed at least one
more – maybe two! I have a small 15” I use when in the motorhome to hook up to
local cable so we can get local info wherever we are. That tv is moveable so I
used that one just to test. We will be
calling Direct soon but we want all of our tvs here so we can get them all done
at the same time. Side note – we have yet to see a Directv truck here. We’re told that they contract through
Centurylink for this area. Centurylink
is one of the internet providers here and we’re told they use dsl which is not
very fast. We want Directv but we want
Comcast internet if possible. Tomorrow I
will make some calls to see what I can do.
As I said, we went into town
and ate and it was kinda late so we considered that our linner. Even though the
house is air conditioned and was really nice we went out to the motorhome to
watch the larger tvs (and our taped programs), before going to bed. Busy day (but super fun!)
Check out Costco beds online. They have a bunch at good prices.
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