On the Sinclair Trails blog: we bought a shed for our Washington home, to store stuff we want to keep for the future, but not carry around the country with us (storage space even in a 40 foot motorhome is limited!). 📦🏡
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From August 2016, a bunch of pictures of the house we had built in New Zealand, from a real estate listing several years after we sold it (in the year 2000). Hadn’t changed much, other than some backyard landscaping. #ThrowbackThursday
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In May 2013, about nine years ago, we were house hunting, and fell in love with what was to become our Yellow Cottage Homestead. #ThrowbackThursday
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My home office back in 2011, with a height-adjustable desk, iMac and Apple Cinema Display, PowerMac G5, PowerBook 17”, early iPhone, and Bluetooth headphones. And a couple of cats, Pippin and Padmé. #ThrowbackThursday
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 18 is “finished”. An empty house was a pretty good sign that we were finished with our homestead, ready to start our new adventures. 📷 #mboct
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 5 is “toy”. Our 40-foot coach looks like a toy in an aerial drone shot. 🚁🚌📷 #mboct
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 3 is “majority”. The vast majority of our stuff sold at our house estate sale. 📷 #mboct
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As part of moving from a 5-acre homestead into a 40-foot motorhome, we’re significantly downsizing, selling most of our stuff. We’re taking the things we want with us, and storing some sentimental items, but the vast majority of our stuff holds little sentimental value, or use in our new home; the accumulation of our lifetimes, and especially of our homestead time, where our stuff has expanded to fit the available space — many items we forgot we had, or is still brand new, unopened! Crazy. Getting rid of this stuff is very freeing.
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Jenn and I are feeling super-stressed at present. Our house closing is one week from today, we’re busy sorting our stuff for take/store/sell, we’re nervous about our RV adventure (awaiting test results for it, driving a big coach, finding places to stay, issues with it, etc), and before that our upcoming trip to Yellowstone in a rental trailer (with our new coach sitting idle at home, since it won’t fit in Yellowstone). Plus today I’m getting some skin cancer chopped out of my leg, so I didn’t get much sleep last night, and Jenn is feeling very ill (probably as a result of the stress). I’m sure everything will be fine, we just need to get through this transition. Deep breaths….
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We have a sign on our entertainment shelves, that we changed to “NOW SHOWING” for our real estate showings. The other day, Paladin knocked it over, with some letters falling off, resulting in it saying “SHWING”. We were amused.
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a grip strip to hold papers. I have a couple of them on the wall of my office. Simply slot a page in and it is held in place with rollers, then lift up the paper to remove.
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A house drives by — two halves of a manufactured home being transported on trucks.
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We now have some very nice signage and brochures for our house… which has already sold, contingently. The market is so busy at present, can’t even get the marketing fully in place before it sells. It is still on the market until the buyer’s place sells, though.
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Good news: after just six days on the market, our house has contingently sold. The buyer needs to sell their house before our sale is officially pending, but that shouldn’t take long in this market. 🎉
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Here’s a direct link to our real estate listing page. Check it out. If you want to enjoy the homestead lifestyle, get in quick!
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On the homestead blog: a big announcement — we are starting our next big adventure. We have put our homestead on the market, and will be buying a large RV, downsizing, and touring the US full-time! (And yes, this is the #WhatsItWednesday answer.)
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a bug catcher. If some bug comes inside (e.g. we often get ladybugs in Fall), I can put this over the bug, slide the hatch closed, then take it outside and open to release. Easy and harmless.
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a Otodata sensor and cellular transmitter to report the level of our propane tank to the supplier. They just installed it. So hopefully now they won’t have to guess if we need a refill.
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The answer to the #WhatsItWednesday question today (which nobody correctly identified): it’s a toothpaste dispenser in our bathroom. Works really well, except when the tube is almost empty. (Appropriate today as I went to the dentist for a cleaning.)
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After Rory lost a leg to osteosarcoma in 2015, and couldn’t navigate the stairs anymore, I moved from my upstairs office to a “temporary” desk in the parlor (2nd pic). Now that Jenn also works from home, I’m thinking about moving back up there; needs a bit of a clean out.
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In November we’re doing a Microblogvember challenge on Micro.blog, where @macgenie posts a random word each day. The word for day 1 is "dreary". Daylight Saving Time just ended, so I have the dreary task of resetting several clocks. 📷🕰 #mbnov
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