It's been a few weeks since I last wrote, so it feels over due. Last post I talked about turning over the handling of the house to our property manager, after emailing the couple in Scotland. Well, they have leased the house for a year, paid the entire year in advance, and will be arriving about October 21, about a month after we leave on September 17. Whatever the anxiety was that I was feeling about all this seems to have dissipated, and we're carrying on according to plan.
Terra arrived from 5 years in the cauldron that is Israel, traumatized, tired, looking forward to her new life, somewhat stressed and anxious, but, she has been saying, optimistic as well. And as it has turned out as of today, for good reason. There were three major items on her "must accomplish" agenda, and they have all been duly accomplished in pretty short order:
1) buy a car; not just any car, but the right car. First car we all looked at is the one, and that went smoothly enough with Nancy and I being the legal owners and the proud debtors of a used car loan form the State Employees Credit Union. A 2004 Honda Accord, 119K miles at purchase, excellent condition, pretty, roomy, and exactly what Terra wanted. Drove Nancy and Terra beautifully to San Diego, and around and about since then in order to accomplish items 2 and 3:
2) find housing; Terra's happy with her new studio apartment, in the neighborhood she wanted, and, as it turns out, only 10 minutes from her.............
3) new job with the San Diego Unified School District as a classroom teacher of (probably) 4th grade at exactly the school she wanted to work at.
All this in about two weeks time from the moment of landing in New Mexico to the receipt of the job offer. We are all humbled by and grateful for the Grace and Divine Blessing of it all. Amen.
So the house is largely ready for our new tenants, complete with a brand new Samsung clothes washer, paid for by the proceeds of our successful garage sale. Water tanks to be full before we leave; house "operating manual" delivered to tenants Brooke and Nick; furniture left for them; remaining personal items to be packed and stored in our shed. With Terra settling in in San Diego, and Aaron and Saly settling in in Seattle, it should be a nice gentle coast down hill for Nancy and I toward our flight to New York on September 17. Except......................
I've been dealing with not feeling well at all for at least a month - very tired; low energy; wiped out. Yesterday I went to the dentist to get a broken filling repaired, and it turns out I have some presumably significant infection that has probably gone systemic, so now I'm taking penicillin which will hopefully address what's been going on, even though today, 24 hours later, I'm not yet feeling any better. I worry about getting this completely resolved in time for our scheduled flight in just over six weeks. I've never experienced this kind of chronic, long term (for me) fatigue, and of course I'm concerned that the penicillin might not work on this specific infection. I had no pain with this presumably long standing "failed root canal" infection, and so didn't think in terms of anything tooth related. No other symptoms either: no pain, no head aches, no muscle or joint aches, no fever. Just the fatigue. I hope that's good news.
Terra arrived from 5 years in the cauldron that is Israel, traumatized, tired, looking forward to her new life, somewhat stressed and anxious, but, she has been saying, optimistic as well. And as it has turned out as of today, for good reason. There were three major items on her "must accomplish" agenda, and they have all been duly accomplished in pretty short order:
1) buy a car; not just any car, but the right car. First car we all looked at is the one, and that went smoothly enough with Nancy and I being the legal owners and the proud debtors of a used car loan form the State Employees Credit Union. A 2004 Honda Accord, 119K miles at purchase, excellent condition, pretty, roomy, and exactly what Terra wanted. Drove Nancy and Terra beautifully to San Diego, and around and about since then in order to accomplish items 2 and 3:
2) find housing; Terra's happy with her new studio apartment, in the neighborhood she wanted, and, as it turns out, only 10 minutes from her.............
3) new job with the San Diego Unified School District as a classroom teacher of (probably) 4th grade at exactly the school she wanted to work at.
All this in about two weeks time from the moment of landing in New Mexico to the receipt of the job offer. We are all humbled by and grateful for the Grace and Divine Blessing of it all. Amen.
So the house is largely ready for our new tenants, complete with a brand new Samsung clothes washer, paid for by the proceeds of our successful garage sale. Water tanks to be full before we leave; house "operating manual" delivered to tenants Brooke and Nick; furniture left for them; remaining personal items to be packed and stored in our shed. With Terra settling in in San Diego, and Aaron and Saly settling in in Seattle, it should be a nice gentle coast down hill for Nancy and I toward our flight to New York on September 17. Except......................
I've been dealing with not feeling well at all for at least a month - very tired; low energy; wiped out. Yesterday I went to the dentist to get a broken filling repaired, and it turns out I have some presumably significant infection that has probably gone systemic, so now I'm taking penicillin which will hopefully address what's been going on, even though today, 24 hours later, I'm not yet feeling any better. I worry about getting this completely resolved in time for our scheduled flight in just over six weeks. I've never experienced this kind of chronic, long term (for me) fatigue, and of course I'm concerned that the penicillin might not work on this specific infection. I had no pain with this presumably long standing "failed root canal" infection, and so didn't think in terms of anything tooth related. No other symptoms either: no pain, no head aches, no muscle or joint aches, no fever. Just the fatigue. I hope that's good news.
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