Chik a Boom
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Apologies, Steve. Cleaned up my act-room for you now.
Moving on up... to the mountains
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For the electrical work, I have had great luck with "Spartys Electrical" and for a general contractor try Poor Boys. Stay away from the local handyman types.
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Op here with an update...
We are now settled into our new home {more or less}. The movers came on Tuesday morning and those two guys {from Two Guys and Truck Moving} busted their humps, arriving at 9, it took about 2.5 hours to load all of furniture and the 60 boxes in the garage.
The trip up to our new home was a 3+hour ride and then another 3 hours of unloading and reassembling the furniture and setting everything up. I'm sure the 3 hour ride home went quickly as I tipped them both a $100 bill {each} for the extraordinary effort they put into this job... which was much appreciated.
My bride and I have been attacking the boxes in the garage with a vengeance and after two full days are down to about 30 or so left to go through/empty. Just to make things interesting I managed to kick our very large/heavy coffee table while barefoot... yep, broke the #2 toe on my right
foot. After a couple of days it has gone completely purple/nearly black. If you have been there, done that you know there is really not much that can be done.
Got out the first aid kit from the RV and fortunately had a good metal, four prong splint. Wrapped it up supported by the splint and taped it to my big toe to minimize movement. Yes, it hurts like hell but with a lot of Ibuprofen and periodic icing it will heal eventually. About the only other thing I need to do is stay off of it but that is just not an option right now....arrrrg!
All in all one hell of an adventure and we could not be happier with our new home. Lots of work yet to do but considering I pulled this off in 28 days from "Hey honey, let's sell this place and find a nice house up in the mountains" to done deal we live here was a pretty ambitious undertaking. Our old place is now officially on the market with Open Houses running through the weekend.
Paula, aka Chik a Boom, stopped by the other day to welcome us to Payson and we look forward to getting together again soon. Chuck, the guy who delivered/installed my new gun safe told me about the local veterans bike club and last night while enjoying a cocktail on the back patio the pres, "Shaggy" and his lady stopped by to welcome us to town and extended an invitation to check out the club... "Veterans Helping Veterans". I am looking forward to that just as soon as I can complete this move by retrieving my Indian from Tucson {currently stored in my snowbird neighbor's garage}.
Thanks one and all for your support, it has really meant a lot...
We are now settled into our new home {more or less}. The movers came on Tuesday morning and those two guys {from Two Guys and Truck Moving} busted their humps, arriving at 9, it took about 2.5 hours to load all of furniture and the 60 boxes in the garage.
The trip up to our new home was a 3+hour ride and then another 3 hours of unloading and reassembling the furniture and setting everything up. I'm sure the 3 hour ride home went quickly as I tipped them both a $100 bill {each} for the extraordinary effort they put into this job... which was much appreciated.
My bride and I have been attacking the boxes in the garage with a vengeance and after two full days are down to about 30 or so left to go through/empty. Just to make things interesting I managed to kick our very large/heavy coffee table while barefoot... yep, broke the #2 toe on my right
foot. After a couple of days it has gone completely purple/nearly black. If you have been there, done that you know there is really not much that can be done.
Got out the first aid kit from the RV and fortunately had a good metal, four prong splint. Wrapped it up supported by the splint and taped it to my big toe to minimize movement. Yes, it hurts like hell but with a lot of Ibuprofen and periodic icing it will heal eventually. About the only other thing I need to do is stay off of it but that is just not an option right now....arrrrg!
All in all one hell of an adventure and we could not be happier with our new home. Lots of work yet to do but considering I pulled this off in 28 days from "Hey honey, let's sell this place and find a nice house up in the mountains" to done deal we live here was a pretty ambitious undertaking. Our old place is now officially on the market with Open Houses running through the weekend.
Paula, aka Chik a Boom, stopped by the other day to welcome us to Payson and we look forward to getting together again soon. Chuck, the guy who delivered/installed my new gun safe told me about the local veterans bike club and last night while enjoying a cocktail on the back patio the pres, "Shaggy" and his lady stopped by to welcome us to town and extended an invitation to check out the club... "Veterans Helping Veterans". I am looking forward to that just as soon as I can complete this move by retrieving my Indian from Tucson {currently stored in my snowbird neighbor's garage}.
Thanks one and all for your support, it has really meant a lot...
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That's wonderful, Steve. Amazing that you were able to bring it off so quickly! Congrats!
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Cant believe it has been a year... an update
We celebrated our one year anniversary 4 days ago, wow, where did that year go??? After getting all of our stuff up here the real work began and for a couple of old folks {69 and 70} we seriously went to work.
Near the top of the list was trimming and clearing the property, neighbors reported that it had not been fire safed for 10+ years. With my cargo trailer and truck we have made 24 trips to the brush pile at the local land fill. The first 12 trips were nothing but pine needles and oak leaves and weighed in at 6,000# +. Serious tree trimming followed as we got the driveways and the rest of the property opened up.
The prolonged drought had weakened the trees and when we got 2.5' of heavy wet snow at the end of January I lost two Oaks and a Juniper along with extensive damage to another dozen or so {8 - 10" limbs were breaking like kindling which of course generated a bunch more tips to the brush pile.}
I did manage to harvest/salvage a full cord of Oak and Juniper hardwood which has now seasoned nicely and we had our first fire in the wood stove since last March on September 30th.
I got a smoking good deal on having the driveways paved, one is 25 yards the other 55... Eighty yards by 12' wide and 3" thick for $6,000. At age 69 humping my 875# Indian Springfield on the gravel driveway probably was not going to end well.
I added a lot of landscaping and even a garden enclosed with Elk fencing {7.5' high}. I have two cherry trees, a dwarf Jonathan Apple, a Bartlett Pear, 2 Blackberry and 2 Raspberry bushes all of which are thriving. This year we finally had a great Monsoon. Since the middle of July we have had 12" with more coming on Tuesday. Happily the fire danger has vanished like a fart in the wind and even the drought numbers are looking much better.
We put a major remodel on the kitchen with new walnut cabinets and granite countertops and the two bathrooms are next for renovation. The house was the proverbial diamond in the rough but after just a year we have it polished up nicely.
Our old house in Tucson sold quickly and when the financial dust settled I came up $245 short of breaking even. In the 51+ years we have been married we have never been happier and are looking forward to many more great years up here on the mountain.
Life is good!
We celebrated our one year anniversary 4 days ago, wow, where did that year go??? After getting all of our stuff up here the real work began and for a couple of old folks {69 and 70} we seriously went to work.
Near the top of the list was trimming and clearing the property, neighbors reported that it had not been fire safed for 10+ years. With my cargo trailer and truck we have made 24 trips to the brush pile at the local land fill. The first 12 trips were nothing but pine needles and oak leaves and weighed in at 6,000# +. Serious tree trimming followed as we got the driveways and the rest of the property opened up.
The prolonged drought had weakened the trees and when we got 2.5' of heavy wet snow at the end of January I lost two Oaks and a Juniper along with extensive damage to another dozen or so {8 - 10" limbs were breaking like kindling which of course generated a bunch more tips to the brush pile.}
I did manage to harvest/salvage a full cord of Oak and Juniper hardwood which has now seasoned nicely and we had our first fire in the wood stove since last March on September 30th.
I got a smoking good deal on having the driveways paved, one is 25 yards the other 55... Eighty yards by 12' wide and 3" thick for $6,000. At age 69 humping my 875# Indian Springfield on the gravel driveway probably was not going to end well.
I added a lot of landscaping and even a garden enclosed with Elk fencing {7.5' high}. I have two cherry trees, a dwarf Jonathan Apple, a Bartlett Pear, 2 Blackberry and 2 Raspberry bushes all of which are thriving. This year we finally had a great Monsoon. Since the middle of July we have had 12" with more coming on Tuesday. Happily the fire danger has vanished like a fart in the wind and even the drought numbers are looking much better.
We put a major remodel on the kitchen with new walnut cabinets and granite countertops and the two bathrooms are next for renovation. The house was the proverbial diamond in the rough but after just a year we have it polished up nicely.
Our old house in Tucson sold quickly and when the financial dust settled I came up $245 short of breaking even. In the 51+ years we have been married we have never been happier and are looking forward to many more great years up here on the mountain.
Life is good!
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Congratulations on your progress and an obvious happy life.
.57 acre ? will all your vehicles fit on your property ?
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looks like a very nice place to me.
