The weather is perfect to settle in with a cup of hot cocoa and cuddly blankets. We hope everyone has been enjoying their first week of wi...

Today we did the long drive to Mt. Shasta, California. Strangely, the "Welcome to California" sign seemed to be missing. I guess t...

In Multnomah County, rate payers pay quite a lot for stormwater management (our last bill was more than $20/month). Our goal has been to dis...

We woke up to a nice layer of snow on the ground and it is beautiful! Jeff was lucky—his class was cancelled this morning. Update at 3PM: It...

Earlier this week, Jeff and I attended a free class in Portland offered by the East Multnomah Soil & Conservation District: Rain Gardens...

I just got an email from our realtor: "Your purchase of the house is final. Congratulations!" It's a relief to finally have th...

I spent a couple hours today starting to pack for our first trip up to Oregon in a couple of weeks. Since we're going to be so tight on ...

We received our bid for foundation and pest repair work on the Multnomah house today. It totaled $13,160; combine that with the roof repair ...

Last night we received another extension form from the sellers of Multnomah extending our inspection deadline until Wednesday. Since they gr...

We have been back and forth with the sellers and it seems somewhat likely this house purchase is going to fall through. Today is the current...

We're still waiting to hear from the sellers about whether they'll accept our revised price. If they don't get back to us by tom...

I have been working on a paralegal certificate for a couple years now. I started at DeAnza College in Cupertino then stopped going when we p...

We're about to find out. =) So, after having our builder and a mason out, we have much more information about what this house needs to b...

It took about 4 hours to have the home inspection done today. In addition to the many problems we already knew about, the inspection also fo...

I've got everything packed and I've finished everything on my list and I still have about an hour before I leave to pick up Jeff, so...

The sellers have now verbally accepted our counter offer. Our realtor, Clint, told me they had wanted to counter back at a higher amount, bu...

Surprisingly, the sellers countered our offer, so I guess their original offer wasn't so much better than ours! We originally offered $3...

We've spent a couple of days now in Portland looking at houses and driving around looking at property on which to build. We're havin...

We set off this morning at 5:31AM from Redwood City, CA. We drove pretty much straight through to Portland, OR and we arrived at 5:29PM! We ...

After 3 years of steadily looking at houses, I admit I'm getting tired of trying to find one. We've basically given up on Rupert. It...