Like anything, even plans change as they grow
I still have imaginary conversations with my mother. They are inevitably unpleasant with me defending whatever topic is on my mind. I always felt that way around here.
"Your plans keep changing! First you were going to live on a boat in the islands and now you're moving to Penticton to live in a trailer home?" She would take that approach.
Well, the boat turned into a tiny house, and the location moved. All that happened as the two people in this marriage talked and worked out details they could live with. Dan wouldn't accept the boat, he hated the idea. I wasn't that keen on it myself in many ways. As attractive as the final result, the road there was going to be a bit too hard, really. I haven't sailed since childhood and I never learned proper navigation. Dan has never sailed. The space in a boat is worse than our tiny house plans. In fact, the tiny house design may have as much space as this house when all is said and done! I won't count on it. I'm planning a 50-75% reduction in volume. I do know that close to 60% is dross like spare bits and hardware that we keep around "just in case." Broken stuff that might be repaired, supplies for building or creating, etc. It sits here because it's not bad enough to toss and we're not skilled enough socializers to move it. I wonder if 1-800-got-junk would be useful to us? I should research them, they might pay for the haul and they might rehome a decent amount of the junk part. I look at yard saling with extreme distaste and lack of faith. I have to pull strangers in with advertising so I'm only getting the ones who are looking for yard sales, for instance. Maybe I could move the stuff around till I have a proper pile and then get someone to auction or sell it for me. the season for decisions is soon upon me and I must at least begin tackling some of the stored goods. Oh I hope I find a buyer for the koi setup and quickly, so I can block out the tiny house. Frankly we should consider building it so the trailer can be separated with just jacks and stands. I don't want that house on the trailer when we try and certify it for BC use. It's cargo on the licensed trailer, not an RV.
I haven't told dan about this adjustment yet. It's structural anyway, a matter of designing around four beams and eight lift points. Our current design is split into 3 sections so a beam under each level change and the outer walls will stradddle the wheels nicely and give a balanced support.
Yeah, it'll work just fine and make it stronger overall.
So anyway, Dan hates crowded cities, I love them. I want to live in GVA and enjoy the amenities of a large city, but I'll settle for a long drive in once a month! I figure I can find a way to make that work for me, perhaps overnighting with the little trailer, or find a couch to use or drive back late at night if the weather is fair. So we were scouting the okanogan valley when Dan pointed out Penticton. They have a branch of the same franchise he's working with now and the city looks like it's got a healthy population of blue collar and middle class folks. Dan hates too many rich people. He's got attitude problems but you can't fix a person like that, you can only keep helping them guide their character in the saner direction! He's on the google earth seeing the new gated communities and pool owning mc-mansions and just starts fuming and raging about what horrible people they are and how many horrible people there are. You can also witness the same sort of rant over illegal mexicans in Arizona,, although he liked them better when he knew them in California. You can witness him go off on welfare people, then back off when he realizes I am one of those. you can witness him go off about people in ghettos where the vandals destroy things, blaming all of them for the few, over and over.
One downside to that is you get the idea that there is a world filled with awful people. When you highlight the few and then blame their neighbors and peers, you turn entire communities into sources of fear and discomfort. Really, it's only a few here or there who can be said to be awful, their neighbours tolerate them because awful people are everywhere. Whether it's the wealthy bully, the nasty mugger, or the middle class martinet, they are everywhere.
So it's not like we're constantly changing our plans, we're evolving them!
Do I want to live in Penticton? Well I can't say it excites me like the coast. I'm definitely disappointed to have to settle for the lake instead of the ocean. I'm hopeful that there's enough waves on the beach and/or visits to Vancouver for me. I can say it's a step forward from here and now, though, one worth taking even if it's the end of the road. Life is usually a series of compromises and learning to like what you get, not a series of challenges you batter down till you get everything you want. That might be something Tony Robbins and Richard Branson did, but it's not an option for everyone no matter how loudly they insist it is. Could you imagine either of them in a woman's body making it out of the local economy?
"Your plans keep changing! First you were going to live on a boat in the islands and now you're moving to Penticton to live in a trailer home?" She would take that approach.
Well, the boat turned into a tiny house, and the location moved. All that happened as the two people in this marriage talked and worked out details they could live with. Dan wouldn't accept the boat, he hated the idea. I wasn't that keen on it myself in many ways. As attractive as the final result, the road there was going to be a bit too hard, really. I haven't sailed since childhood and I never learned proper navigation. Dan has never sailed. The space in a boat is worse than our tiny house plans. In fact, the tiny house design may have as much space as this house when all is said and done! I won't count on it. I'm planning a 50-75% reduction in volume. I do know that close to 60% is dross like spare bits and hardware that we keep around "just in case." Broken stuff that might be repaired, supplies for building or creating, etc. It sits here because it's not bad enough to toss and we're not skilled enough socializers to move it. I wonder if 1-800-got-junk would be useful to us? I should research them, they might pay for the haul and they might rehome a decent amount of the junk part. I look at yard saling with extreme distaste and lack of faith. I have to pull strangers in with advertising so I'm only getting the ones who are looking for yard sales, for instance. Maybe I could move the stuff around till I have a proper pile and then get someone to auction or sell it for me. the season for decisions is soon upon me and I must at least begin tackling some of the stored goods. Oh I hope I find a buyer for the koi setup and quickly, so I can block out the tiny house. Frankly we should consider building it so the trailer can be separated with just jacks and stands. I don't want that house on the trailer when we try and certify it for BC use. It's cargo on the licensed trailer, not an RV.
I haven't told dan about this adjustment yet. It's structural anyway, a matter of designing around four beams and eight lift points. Our current design is split into 3 sections so a beam under each level change and the outer walls will stradddle the wheels nicely and give a balanced support.
Yeah, it'll work just fine and make it stronger overall.
So anyway, Dan hates crowded cities, I love them. I want to live in GVA and enjoy the amenities of a large city, but I'll settle for a long drive in once a month! I figure I can find a way to make that work for me, perhaps overnighting with the little trailer, or find a couch to use or drive back late at night if the weather is fair. So we were scouting the okanogan valley when Dan pointed out Penticton. They have a branch of the same franchise he's working with now and the city looks like it's got a healthy population of blue collar and middle class folks. Dan hates too many rich people. He's got attitude problems but you can't fix a person like that, you can only keep helping them guide their character in the saner direction! He's on the google earth seeing the new gated communities and pool owning mc-mansions and just starts fuming and raging about what horrible people they are and how many horrible people there are. You can also witness the same sort of rant over illegal mexicans in Arizona,, although he liked them better when he knew them in California. You can witness him go off on welfare people, then back off when he realizes I am one of those. you can witness him go off about people in ghettos where the vandals destroy things, blaming all of them for the few, over and over.
One downside to that is you get the idea that there is a world filled with awful people. When you highlight the few and then blame their neighbors and peers, you turn entire communities into sources of fear and discomfort. Really, it's only a few here or there who can be said to be awful, their neighbours tolerate them because awful people are everywhere. Whether it's the wealthy bully, the nasty mugger, or the middle class martinet, they are everywhere.
So it's not like we're constantly changing our plans, we're evolving them!
Do I want to live in Penticton? Well I can't say it excites me like the coast. I'm definitely disappointed to have to settle for the lake instead of the ocean. I'm hopeful that there's enough waves on the beach and/or visits to Vancouver for me. I can say it's a step forward from here and now, though, one worth taking even if it's the end of the road. Life is usually a series of compromises and learning to like what you get, not a series of challenges you batter down till you get everything you want. That might be something Tony Robbins and Richard Branson did, but it's not an option for everyone no matter how loudly they insist it is. Could you imagine either of them in a woman's body making it out of the local economy?