Been a while since I posted up. Life.. work... just overwhelmed with it all.
Work. Been on a contract in Southern California covering specifically Orange County and on call when needed for surrounding counties since mid June. That’s a 12 day on and 6 day off schedule. Their fire season started a little late in the season as I’m sure y’all saw reported on the news.
In the middle of all that, my wife found a property just outside the city limits that suited our needs. Not that I was looking. I was perfectly happy where we were at. Been there over 12 years. But this place had something that sold me. As one child is married and the other is a senior in high school, the need for an 11 room, 130 year old farm house didn’t appeal to the wife’s schedule of keeping up the house without help from the kids... so downsizing was on her mind.
We put in an offer and purchased the “new to us” home and property. Being in a position to not have to sell our old home, we had planned to move on my scheduled time off. I wanted to have a home inspector come in and tell us what needed to be repaired or updated before listing. Well that took a left turn when word got out that we were moving. We had people knocking down the door wanting to buy our old house. We didn’t have a real estate agent and folks wanted a price. So we get an agent, come up with a price and now have the old house under contract to close on the 21st. Lucky for us as I told the buyers it was sold as is so don’t ask for repairs.
So we got moved out. Had a fence and gate put up. And I’m headed to Santiago, Chile on the 16th working a new contract which has a 3 week on and 3 week off schedule.
The Phoenix is coming along and has been giving a new name. “EGL RSNG”. That’s “eagle rising” for the acronym impaired. Two reasons for the change. First, someone already took that license plate here in Texas. Second, as an old warrant officer, our insignia for the warrant officer branch was described as an eagle rising before the smart people decided to make us part of our commissioned brethren with their insignia. So a little homage to my warrant officer heritage.
