Rhiannon Voyages: Summer to Fall 2018

Summer to Fall 2018

We planned to spend our summer traveling, visiting family and friends, but as so many times happens, it did not turn out that way. Lisa spent about 6 weeks off and on helping one of her best friends get ready to move. Her friend had lived in the same house for 28 years and you can imagine the amount of stuff that had accumulated. Her friend is divorced and the x-husband owns the house and decided to sell it. Without a specific place to move into, everything had to be gone through and stored or disposed of.

Just as that project came to an end, one of our apartments opened up. The people left without notice or paying the last month’s rent and left the place a disaster. They moved out of state, so there was really no way to pursue them for the expense of putting the place back together. It now has a new kitchen, a new (additional) bathroom, has been completely remodeled and is beautiful. Unfortunately, that took the rest of the summer and into the fall to accomplish.

New kitchen in one of the rental units

Another property, that our son James lives in, had a complaint filed by a neighbor about the septic system. Turns out it was a complaint for the sake of complaining, but he got NHDES involved and they found out that there was never an application approved for the system (many years before we bought it). To complicate matters further, the Town Of Meredith is who put the new system in because the previous system had failed and the owner at the time could not afford to fix or replace it (the Town has a contingency for such things). After many meetings with the Town, DES, and a septic designer, the Town has now taken responsibility to get this straightened out with the State.

We also had a new widened driveway done at our home, a new patio slider installed in our kitchen to replace the old wood one that had seen better days, and out gutters fixed. We also had the fence which was installed in the back yard when we moved in, moved over to the actual property lines, adding significant square footage to the back yard.

New Driveway

New kitchen patio slider

November 3, 2018. Lisa and I flew out to Salt Lake City to visit two of the boys, Jake and Jeff. We had a great visit and then we all went to Zion National Park for a long week-end. The weather was a bit cool, but not yet cold down in the dessert. This is our second trip to Zion and it is a beautiful place. Jake’s wife Betsy had a broken foot from a mountain biking adventure, so her hiking was limited, but she had a “scooter” so was able to do the paved trails.