Preparing Garage... preparing for the move

Jerry has started preparing the garage in preparation for moving all the stuff from our 2 car garage to his wonderful 48 x 50 shop in Dalton Gardens, ID. Yesterday (Saturday) we spend washing, polishing, cleaning and armor all'g the 1973 Datsun 240Z getting it ready to put on the market for sale. Looks Nice !!!

Today, (Sunday) Jerry has been working on throwing some stuff away, getting stuff sorted for our upcoming garage sale and putting items aside he knows he wants to take with us.

... it's a start !!!

October 1, 2009

I am so anxious to move up to our new home in Dalton Gardens, I can hardly wait for the time to pass. On the other hand, I can't believe 3 months have already gone since we bought our new house. Then we were saying we would be moving in 9 months. Now we can saying we are moving in 6 months... Jerry's official termination date is 03/31/2010 or sooner! Jerry feels that the date will probably be much sooner than 03/31/2010. Of course, he's hoping that it won't and that he'll be able to work until 03/31/2010, for Insurance purposes... So far, I have 94 boxes packed. A lot of the boxes are smaller (12 x 9.5"), but most of the boxes I have packed have been smaller to medium size and just a few large and very few extra large. I need to make sure that I can handle the boxes myself, so they can't be too big or too heavy!

Last weekend, we picked up new bedroom furniture for our guest bedroom. When I was in North Carolina for Jerry's niece Dawn's wedding I really liked her choice of furniture in her guest bedroom. I asked Dawn and she told me where I could find the set and the name of the collection. I went online and was deciding on the pieces I wanted. Since I am spending a lot of time posting classified ad's on craig's list I decided to search on craig's list for the collection. I actually found someone selling a brand new set. They purchased the set for his wife's 85 yr. old mother. Unfortunately, she suddenly passed away before she had an opportunity to enjoy it. The son/daughter were paying her mother's mobile home mortgage and rental space fee during her mother's hospital stay before she passed. Her mobile home had been sold and they needed to get the set removed from the house. They sold a dresser, mirror, nightstand and metal headboard for a full size bed for more than 1/2 price. We purchased the set with the intention of selling the metal headboard and eventually purchasing a poster head and foot board.
We were both delighted with our bargain!!! It was worth a 100 miles round trip and moving it up north along with everything else. We will wait until we are up there to purchase the rest of the set. Here is a picture of the collection:
http://www.ashleyfurniture.com/Showroom/Showroom.aspx?PageId=Showroom&CategoryID=17&ItemNo=B219-77&SetDomTab=1&SeriesNo=B219&CollectionId=&style=&PageNumber=1&IsClicked=1&CatPageNumber=1

4321 E. Burchell Haydon, IDaho

This property is my favorate property found so far. Over our budget and without a shop is a negative, but the home and neighborhood are beautiful. Joni (Jerry's sister) and the realtor will be viewing the house tomorrow.

The link below will take you to the information about this house and all the photos available.

http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/createlink/link_receiver.html&no_html_header=true&i=jeaqxqebh5g,7

2240 Mountain Vista Coeur D'Alene, ID

This property is PERFECT in consideration of location. The property is only 0.9 miles from Jerry's sister Joni. The house 3,490 sqft. house only sits on a .33 acre lot. Jerry and I are hoping to find a house on at least a half an acre. There is NO shop, but the house is probably going to foreclosure, so the money we save on the house would go towards adding a shop. Problem is the shop would take up alot of valuable acreage. The other negative about this property is that its sits up close to Canfield mountain which would cause the house to be in too much shade. This is definately something we would want to consider since we are coming from Sunny Southern California.

The link below will take you to the information about this house and all the photos available.

http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/createlink/link_receiver.html&no_html_header=true&i=jeaqxqebh5g,7

2398 N. Mountain Vista, Coeur D' Alene, IDaho

But, there's no trees... This house is still under consideration. There are no pictures on the internet and we are waiting for a video from the realtor. This house is the same builder as the Cuprum home. Lot size is also the same. However, Jerry and I are not too excited that there are NO trees!

4863 Cuprum Coeur D'Alene

Jerry and I were so excited about this house, that we were considering making an offer without even seeing the house, for ourselves. Jerry's sister, Joni and husband August walked through the house while narrating to us. The items mentioned that made us decide not to select this home was: Main Living floor looked out into the backyard of neighbor, decking was not trex decking and would be high maintenance, five (5) steps from house into garage and back into the house.

The link below will take you to the information about this house and all the photos available.

http://www.flexmls.com/cgi-bin/mainmenu.cgi?cmd=url+other/createlink/link_receiver.html&no_html_header=true&i=jeaqxqebh5g,7

12715 N. Yearling Circle Hayden, IDaho

This is a really beautiful home and we would be really interested in the property except that it is 8.3 miles north of Joni. We are still considering the home, but ideally want to be closer in to Coeur D'Alene.

1446 E. Bruin Loop, Hayden, IDaho

This home is bank owned, but has not been completed. In addition needs Landscaping, sprinklers etc. Jerry's sister Joni has viewed the property and said it was very nice. If this property is still available when we visity in July we will want to see the property and make a determination if we want to consider it. The property is a little further north of Joni than we really want to be. However, Joni says... it's closer than we are right now.! She has a point.

Coeur D' Alene, IDAHO - House Hunting

As many of you know for years Jerry and I have been planning to someday move up to Northern Idaho, Coeur D'Alene, ID. After a difficult and rough health year, for Jerry, we have decided it's time for Jerry "wind down" and retire. I was forced into early retirement when I was laid off in September, 2008, from my employer of 11+ years. After supporting Jerry through chemo therapy, having shoulder surgery myself we are now working towards downsizing (California) and preparation for moving sometime around this time next year. We decided to take advantage of the recession and purchase our home now, while prices are down. It doesn't make sense for me to try to find a job in California. Unemployment at a record high and trying to compete with the younger people and the competition also looking for a job. I will wait until we have found a home in Idaho, have numerous garage sales getting rid of 30+ years of accumulation and Jerry needs to dig into the boat port, his garage and all the other places Jerry finds to hide his treasures (aka junk). We are planning to head up to Coeur D' Alene the 1st of July and actually physically look at properties. In the mean time, I am looking on the Internet, Jerry and I are carefully reviewing the properties and Joni and August are going with our agent to preview the properties and report back to us. There are a few properties that we have really liked, but there have been things we didn't like so we continue to look.