Summary March we (finally) finalized the purchase of the house, its litterally and figuratively DONE!!. We continued progress on our immigration journey. We celebrated George’s birthday and our 20th anniversary. Temps began to warm a little, suggesting Spring is on its way. We have a few visitors coming thru in April, looking forward to some…
After 3.5 long years from our first seeing the house, we signed the paperwork to complete the purchase today. So many ups and downs along this road. We couldn’t be more excited. When we think about the number of times we said SOON and it didn’t materialize, it was sometimes hard to keep our heads…
Summary February focused on finalizing the property purchase, completing additional steps for immigration, concluding septic repairs and a new well water issue. We traveled between timezones quite a bit and are feeling a bit exhausted. Glad to be home. This month’s image may begin to show some slight differences in color, or maybe it’s my…
Summary November marked our official move to Italy. House purchase not complete and immigration not finished, what could go wrong? We packed a portion of our belongings, our cat and off we went. We now have full time jobs advancing purchase, immigration and living. We’ve been busy making the house a little more comfortable. The…
We sit in the airline lounge. Having performed dozens of steps to get to this moment. We will have dozens more in the coming years, at least. This change is really hitting us deeply right now. After 60ish years living, working, parenting, friending and traveling from the US. To say out loud we live in…
We’ve shared some bits of this story, but now that the harvest has been fully completed, thought we’d share the whole story with pictures and videos. At a recent visit we had looked at some of the trees and it seemed they had more olives that we recalled on previous visits. We reached out to…
October has been a whirlwind. From LA house sale, purging all things not coming with us, cat travel planning, flight planning for our exit, storage, immigration, taxes and on and on. As we close out this month, we have to be out of the LA house on November 4th and we fly to Italy with…
The update on the demolition approval brought encouragement. Plans for marriage and a celebration party are in motion. Focus remains on ending work in June.