We have almost everything moved over to the new house, which is 3.3 miles south of the old place where we used to live. The old house itself is empty. My ham radio antennas, four of them, are still over there and I’ll take them down in the morning for the move over here. How to put any or all of them up is a bit of a problem to be solved. More on that on some future date.

Our living area includes half of the car port and the front part of the house. Another family is living in the back half of the house. I haven’t been into the back area, so I’ve no idea what it all looks like. The house is a three-bedroom two-bath arrangement, but what would be considered to be the master bedroom / bath is “closed off” for us. That was the landlord’s concession to reduce the rent from $2,300 to $1,850 a month. We’re here on a five and a half month lease. The Mission is hoping in the meantime to find a place in Laie itself at a better price while the landlord is hoping to find a new tenant that will pay the full price.

The front area is a great room arrangement with the kitchen on one side. No dividers, just a huge space with a tiled floor. Down the hallway are three closets, a bathroom on the right, two bedrooms on the left, and the master bedroom at the end of the hall. We’ve put our bed in the second bedroom and will use the first bedroom as a kind of a study and I’ll put my ham radio setup in that room. The house has a shared hot water heater, washer and dryer, mailbox, and wifi. The budget for utilities is $500 a month and if they go over that amount, the difference is split between the two tenants. I’ve no idea how that’s going to work.

So far we’ve got about 80% of the stuff put away in it’s likely permanent location. The other bedroom still has a number of boxes to be unloaded. I have to make a decision about whether to use the existing wifi or to have a new internet drop put in place. Bishop Goo is the Oceanic Time Warner guy so I need to talk with him to see what my options are. I’ll put in a change of address tomorrow. As I said, its a shared mailbox with the family living behind us. Our old address still works as no one is living there.

So, Nina has set up a desk in the front room with her stuff. I’ve set my computer and such on a table in the front room. We definitely have plenty of space in this area. However, there’s no air conditioning! We have three box fans in the windows, an overhead fan, and a rotating pedestal fan plus another window and pedestal fan in the bedroom. The past two nights were very sticky, tonight is much nicer. The weather will be cooling off over the next month or so with the humidity going down significantly. That’ll make a difference for sure. A little over five months. We can do this.

Ta ta for now!