Day 2 Oh My Husband's Poor Back!

I worked with weights at hand therapy Thursday. 15 reps x 2 of 4 lbs. makes my hand hurt for a few days. 

Have I mentioned that we are hauling up tons of weight and are going to have to unload it ourselves??????

Back to that what were we thinking thing!

I am so excited but I could cry at the same time. 

Oh well, I will do what I can and my husband will bear the burden of making this life choice in the middle of my hand surgeries. I know he is all tough and strong right now but when it is just he and I and the dog on the island with a uhaul full of heavy stuff he is going to be whining. JUSTIFIABLY!

So, SuperMoto, I am sending this appology out into the ether and hopefully it will gently come down to you when you are in pain and are suffering unloading at the new house. 

Thank you and I love you!

Moto

Day 1 What the Heck Were We Thinking??

Ok, so we bought a house on San Juan Island recently. 

"WOW"

If you know us then you are probably saying, "wow" too. If you don't, you soon will and I am sure you will be thinking a lot worse things than wow.

By 'we' I mean my husband (SuperMoto), myself (Moto), and our dog (The Geodog). 

We went on vacation to the Pacific Northwest in November 2008. We were gone only a week. We stayed three nights on San Juan Island. This was the first time we had ever been on the island although we honeymooned on Vancouver Island, so we knew we loved the area. 

I digress.  A Lot!!

We were on vacation on the island. We had made an appointment to look at houses to just get an idea of what the prices would be like. When we went into the realtor's office we had a very firmly stated speech all prepared about how we were just looking and that we had no intention to buy. She took it well. Why? Because she knew us better than we knew ourselves.

The next thing you know we were the proud owners of a house, 

some acres, 

 and are on the adventure of a lifetime!!

Since we live in California full time, and I have just had my 3rd in a series of hand surgeries, and my husband works full time in Northern California you might be wondering what we were thinking buying this island paradise home?

Come to think of it......What the heck were we thinking????

Sure, sure... We were thinking that someday, when SuperMoto retired, it would be nice to end up in this haven called San Juan Island. But... I am pretty sure we weren't thinking about the long drive from the San Francisco Bay Area. I know we weren't thinking about the flight to Seattle and the drive to Anacortes in the car that we have parked where?? I know for a fact we weren't thinking about the Ferry schedules and the fees. And, if all that isn't enough SuperMoto's parents are 93 and 91 and are both suffering from Alzheimer's and have other health problems. They live local and if we go more than a day or two without communication with them they start to lose it. 

Are you seeing the picture more clearly now?

Just about now you might be asking yourself the eternal, "WHY?" I would be. 

Because we couldn't imagine not being on the island. We both felt like we were home more than we had ever felt anywhere else before. That is why.

Now the question is...

 

What are we going to focus on to maintain our sanity? 

WHO SAID WE WERE SANE???

Sanity is to be determined but in the mean time we are going to focus our attention on remodeling. 

Tile, hardwood floor, new kitchen, two new bathrooms, paint everywhere, a shop....

When we aren't doing that we are going to watch The Geodog run free and chase her balls, snuggle under the brown fuzzy blanket in front of the wood stove while we smell the coffee roasting and are anticipating a fresh cup, grow a garden, tend to the forrest, bake some bread, grow some hops, make some beer, dream big and love hard. 

Ahhhh....ok.....when you put it that way...

                     We can do this...

Just Watch Us!!