Back home

from a delightful vacation (the first I've had in a really long time). Cut a bit short due to last minute book edits lasting up until the morning of my birthday then being kicked off our property... more on that later.

I came home to some wonderful surprises: a box of handblown glasses for our new beach house from my Aunt...


And Marcia's new book - elegant, classy, sophisticated...

And to find out Deborah is painting my cherry blossoms... on silk!

And that our house is already framed...
(check out Timberland Homes - ours will look similar to this)

So many wonderful things!

But back to being kicked off our property...

Yep - turns out a tent isn't an 'approved dwelling unit' (go figure!). Never mind that we already have a Reasonable Use Permit, a Driveway Permit and have filed for a Building Permit (any question as to our intent on this property?) Now once our house is built, we can put up a tent or trailer (because we won't be 'dwelling' in it). And, once our Building Permit is approved (in a couple of weeks), then we can pay the county a few hundred dollars for a Temporary Dwelling Permit to put up a tent... (not sure I can tell you all this without a Permit). So goes the red tape of Island County. And so endeth our vacation.

Don't worry, we are actually already giggling about it.