Month: July 2021

The game is afoot! On many levels.  Things I have in the air are:

1. Jon came out for a week in Mid June.  With his help, suggestions, and guidance I am now outfitted with tools & equip to get started as a landowner. Also discovered the neighbor across the road is a contractor who is currently underemployed.

2. Initial work on Casa Kling is underway. Although I am in Portland for the next couple of weeks, work should be underway to level a plot of land, reset the containers, erect a roof over them and park the 5th wheel trailer under shelter.

3. Work is rapidly underway to get the condo in Portland ready to sell.  The expected 2-3 weeks of prep work has been compressed to 2 days before work starts on repairing walls, getting ready to paint, and so forth for a 34K extravaganza that should be done in 14-21 days. The condo should be on the market by end of August.

3. 1-800-GOT-Junk folks are coming back for a reprise (they cleaned out the garage) to haul out everything that I don’t keep.  All the artwork and a bunch of stuff I’m keeping is going into a storage unit in Beaverton while I sort through and make a couple of trips back and forth.

4. I will try to update this later in the week after the condo work is underway.

 I got a call this morning from a nice lady at the State Engineer’s Office. She was inputting my well application into the computer and I apparently had not filled in a blank on the second page that indicated that the person who wanted to put in the well was myself, the landowner.

In my experience, when something like this happened, the clerk entering the information would reject the form and a week or two later, if I was lucky, I would receive the rejected form in the mail, which may or may not have indicated what the problem was.

In this case she called me up, got the information, entered it in the computer, and remarked that the engineers who reviewed the applications would probably get it reviewed within a week or two,  In other words she took action to resolve the problem and reassured me that the application was progressing.  

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 It’s now late Monday evening and there has been some rumbling and distant lightning strikes and a gentle rain is falling. It has happened a couple of times and it strikes me that this might be a recurring pattern. I would presume we get some significant solar heating during the day with some strong thermal uplifts, but with the overall low humidity it would take a while to build thunderheads, and therefore the lightning and thunder and rain at night (rather than at 2pm like in Hawaii, Florida, etc). 

It was reminded of my high school play, “Camelot”, when Arthur is selling the whole deal to Guinevere by talking up the weather (and the title of the piece; at 1:31).