Once the house inspection was complete on our house in Cottonwood, we started packing up and moving everything we could handle ourselves to the new house in Redding. At the same time, our painter started painting the fireplace/entertainment center we’d had built, which turned out more beautiful than we had imagined. I’m already looking forward to winter, when we can enjoy it.


Finally, after three weeks of frustrating negotiations with our buyer, we decided the man wanted to steal our house, not buy it, so we terminated escrow, took the house off the market and called the movers to finish moving all the furniture to the new house in Redding.
Once the Cottonwood house was empty, and we’d settled into the Redding house, we started making preparations for returning to the boat.