TL:DR We began our grand adventure on Sunday and our first stop was two nights in Washington, DC. Was this stop out of the way? A bit. Did we have tickets to see P!nk in concert in DC? We sure did! I’ve been wanting to see P!nk in concert for years and AC surprised me with tickets last Christmas. That show was everything I hoped for and more! Details are coming, I promise, but first……
(This post was written on June 23, 2023.) I’m writing this post in fan girl mode because I just ran into Marty Raney in the Seattle Airport! For those of you who have no idea who I’m talking about, that’s ok, I probably wouldn’t have known him either if we weren’t on a homesteading journey. Marty is the star of the TV show Homestead Rescue, on the Discovery Network. He and two of his kids…
AC has finished the itinerary for our road trip from the east coast of the USA to the west coast of Canada and we leave in 3 days! I’m sure you all are dying to know more about our route (or at least my mom is). Here you go! I’m not going to share full details now for safety purposes. But I will post an update on each stop–including where we were and what we…
We are now homeless on purpose! We sold our house as part of our grand plan, but we still need some place to live on our cross-country trek and in between farm stays. Rather than spend oodles of money on various hotel rooms, we decided we’ll be campers! We’ll camp out of a tent and out of our truck, depending on our moods and the weather. But before we could camp out of our truck,…
…But our house sold that fast! You read that right, we sold our house in one day! Here’s how it went down: Offers We had multiple offers so we could have set a “submit your best offer by” date, but this offer was so strong (and the others were not) that we decided we didn’t want to risk scaring this buyer off. Tuesday morning we finished signing the papers and were officially under contract! Now…
It takes a lot of work to prepare and facilitate your own estate sale–way more than I anticipated! Now that it’s over, I’m writing this post from Mr. Snuggles, AC’s prized oversized recliner, because he is one of the few remaining pieces of furniture in our house. Pre-sale Chaos That’s right, the “estate” sale is over, and it was a smashing success! I wish I had done a better job of taking pictures and documenting…
It’s Thursday and this week has already been a full one. It started with a pre-inspection for our own sanity– I didn’t want any big surprises that could keep our house from selling–and it went pretty well! No surprises, only small things that we already knew about or are easily fixable…except for one. We have a bat in the attic. The inspector wasn’t sure if it was a bat or a leaf, but AC bravely…
Wednesday was a BIG DAY! We found our realtor had our first sit-down. How did we choose our realtor? We had a hard time deciding who to list our house with. It was important to both of us that we support women, But we weren’t sure what else to look for. And there are sooooo many highly-rated female realtors out there so a Google search wasn’t very helpful in narrowing down our pool. Our neighborhood…
Be Like Ben “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” That quote comes from Benjamin Franklin. According to history.com, “Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat…He [started] a successful printing business in Philadelphia…where he helped launch a lending library, hospital, and college, and garnered acclaim for his experiments with electricity, among other projects” like drafting the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the 1783 Treaty of Paris and starring in…
Hi there! We are Charli and AC, and we’re making a big change! But before I tell you about our future, let me tell you about our present. Where We Are I (Charli) have a full-time remote job as an instructional designer for a US-based company. I’m also an amateur woodworker and an avid DIY-er. AC “complains” that I don’t know how to sit still. I say “complains” because I know, deep down, that she…