5 weeks, start to finish - that's how long it took us to sell/donate/trash just about everything we've accumulated over the last 17 years. Once we decided to sell, we had our lovely agent and her equally lovely inspector come to our house to walk through to tell us what they felt would be items to be addressed before it was listed. There were some minor repairs to be done to the structure and they gave us advice on what to keep for staging purposes but the rest could go. It w

*** Edit: The pictures you see here were taken when our house was torn apart as we were culling and selling. The back yard is typical of the pre-spring cleanup after a windy winter. We don't normally live like hoarders with a crack problem. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. When we purchased Eione last year it was with every intention of scaling down and moving aboard at some point, but it was only very vaguely talked about as "end of next summer perhaps", not a def

Alas, all good things must come to an end, although I don't think that should apply to vacations. Darrin had to get back to work though, so after a lovely few days at Rosario we did some trip planning to make our way home again. We checked the winds, the forecast, tides and currents then chose to go back through Cattle Pass rather than via Rosario Straight or the Swinomish Channel. We didn't feel we were brave enough for Deception Pass yet either - the timing needs to be perf