Sounds awesome, Dave. Best of luck with the move. Hope all goes well as you settle into your new home.
Kimber On 6/2/14, Dave Carlson via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > Adrian, > > I'll be sending out a blanket message to a large distribution list of family > and friends, but wanted to make this more personal. > > We are truly pulling the trigger on the "Carlson Retirement Adventure". > > When we last corresponded, I think I told you that we purchased two rental > houses in Bend Oregon, one built and the other to be built. We have a tenant > in that first one, and planned to live in the second when completed in > August. > > Everything got pulled up when the builder was planning to complete rental #2 > end of June. So we started planning to sell Monica Lane in San Jose and move > North. > > We took a quick trip there early in May to look at a possible home, but > ultimately decided to consider purchasing a 1/2 acre lot and plan to have a > home built on it. About 20 miles outside Bend, but pretty nice. > > The night before we were to drive back to San Jose, Carol's sister told her > about a house she heard was about to go on market, and that it would be > "perfect". Janet used to live in Bend, and the network was a > friend-of-a-friend hookup, literally. So that evening we drove to the house > and it was "the one". We are now in contract to purchase, and in about two > days will see what offers we get on our home here in San Jose. > > We'll hit the road on July 2 if all plans work, and our belongings will > catch up with us on the 7th of July in Bend. > > A nice 2100 sq. ft. home, single story cedar siding with vaulted ceilings > and a view of the Cascade mountains to the west -- so Carol's happy. A 2.6 > acre lot with lots of trees and room to run -- so Winchester's happy. A > two-car garage with a separate 20 x 22 foot shop, and room to park a > truck/camper -- so Dave's happy. We will be pioneers in a real sense, as we > are a few miles from the nearest store. So no more walking to pick up a few > groceries, prescriptions, library books, etc. That part I think will be the > hardest adjustment for me, not being quite as independent as I was in a > suburban environment. But time will tell, and time we have. > > But sadly we will put 500 miles between us and our grandson. That's the only > fly in the ointment. > > So now you know the whole story. > > Dave Carlson > Future Oregonian, landlord, full-time Farfar, musician, and woodworker > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com/attachments/20140601/4837d032/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > -- Kimberly _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
