Gary’s post: Finally, a weekend morning that isn’t packed with “to-do’s” and we can get at organizing the workshop from the mover’s delivery. Yesterday I got my temp New Mexico Driver’s License. It went pretty smoothly. The only hangup was my social security number – my W2 had it X’d out so I had to go to the SSN site and download a 1099. Crazy how much security we now have to use to get to our personal information. Freaking scam artists, we need to just eliminate them from the earth. They serve no purpose. Alright, I’m sure I’ll fry in hell for that comment. Anyway – I now have a temp (paper) NM license with my original NM license number from 20 years ago. Next up – titling the truck. I kinda hate to do that as I just did the renewal in Washington in December.
In a better place today. I think the impact of selling our Renton house was emotionally draining. Lots of life in those 8 years that were big emotional and life changes. Losing my brother to alcoholism, then my Mom two weeks later – leaves me the last man standing from my original family. Passing of two generations. And the introduction of my grandkids Luke and Maddie – two awesome amazing human beings that I love more than life. My son becoming a Dad (hysterical transition that I’ll blog about later), my daughter bailing from an abusive marriage and relationship and her recovery into an amazing human being and my youngest also baling from an abusive relationship, recovering from PTSD and trying to find himself is a complex, divisive world in a state (Washington) that doesn’t support veterans at all. Looking back, it was eventful 8 years that changed a lot of my perspective about my life journey. One quote that I’m starting to accept – “Every life ends.” Coming to terms with that, can be overwhelming and induce panic as you start to approach the end of your journey.
Back to reality and our chapter. Went to dinner last night at Katrina’s again. Good food, but they still need to work on ticket times and getting food out to diners more quickly. The place was packed, which is good, but we were there for an hour and a half. I’m learning two things about this small town. First, don’t go out to dinner after 6:00pm and expect to walk in and sit down. Second, patience. No matter when you go out to eat, you’re going to have a wait. Hard to have patience when you’re starving – but it’s character building.
So today is about get slowing down and getting some basic items completed. Going to get new passport pictures so I can renew my passport. Need to finish up the change out of the 50-amp plug-in, just add a screw. Then start the war against the insects and weeds. It’s been so warm during the day that the spiders and horse flys are starting to come out. I’m hoping next week’s cold spell will kill them off. I noticed that every morning there is a black cat that leaves our property and goes down the drive. Wondering if it’s feral or not. I think it lives under my wife’s cousin’s shipping container that’s on the back of our property.
House. So, our GC has been sick. Things have slowed a bit. CID had some silly questions about our application so she’s working on those so we can get our CID permit. The surveyor who’s pinning the corners hasn’t got here yet, but that’s scheduled for next Saturday. Once that’s done, then we start the dirt work. I’ll get the deposit for the panels done next week. AND my current favorite task, replacing the stupid gate, will start next Wednesday!! Can’t wait. I need to get my father-in-law’s tractor and start leveling the area around the trailer. I want to order about 4 truckloads of crushed gravel to spread where we park cars and drive. And I’ll create a small gravel area for us to sit, Harp to do his business so I’m not pickup up after him everywhere…..
Alright, enough for today. Need to get Harp feed. Feed myself and get start on the day. Take care everyone and have a great day!
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