Aug. 1st, 2026 – All settled into my New2Me Sticks and Bricks home.
It’s been a while since I posted and I wanted to update my readers with some info about the move from being a full time RV’er to a home owner. My snow bird life the last few years had become a bit stale as I was taking the same routes I’ve taken what seemed like 100’s of times. I was getting stale too. So when my daughter and her SO broke up, and my daughter couldn’t afford the mortgage payments on the house, they offered to sell it to me for a locally assessed price, I bought it. I’d been looking for a home to buy in this area for years but never found anything I could live with. Since it was a sweetheart deal, I decided to use a RE Lawyer instead of a real estate agent while I did the simple, online legwork. Her direction and advice was very helpful and she did a lot of documentation shuffling as required to buy a house along with guiding me. Why isn’t everyone using RE Attorneys instead of RE agents that are now days charging 5.5% of the sales price? Using an RE agent would have been $13,700 for this sale had I not used an attorney. Cost all of $510 for the RE lawyer!
Anyway, I took some pictures recently of the homestead. It’s around 2 miles from the old downtown of Milton Freewater, Oregon on a dead end street with houses around all from the 1960’s with 2 cats in the yard, etc. Next to the property is an irrigation creek that is filled when some farmer needs water, the rest of the year it’s dry. But it means no buildings on the north side of the property. Check out the pictures from my posting last time.
What I’ve been doing the last month is a catching up on a bunch of deferred maintenance. Faucets, drains, curtains, lights, electrical, etc. etc. So far I’ve completed some 13 projects. One thing I noticed right away was that the plumbing for the Washer and Dryer was reversed from normal. Instead of the washer on the left, it was on the right. All I did was add a 6″ piece of hose to the washer hot water supply hose, swapped positions of the machines so now the front loading washer is on the left and dryer is on the right so doors open correctly when moving clothes from one to the other.
Originally I had set up my computer work station on the desk that Scott left when he moved and after a couple weeks, decided I didn’t like the setup so moved it into the master bedroom. My room. And yesterday I ordered another work desk that I’ll put my electronics work space on. It’ll go into my bedroom too.
And so, here are some new pictures. Note that I had my lawn guy mow down all the 2 foot weeds in the graveled portion of the back yard. Hated those tall weeds.
We’ll start with the inside:
