The Yellow Desk

I purchased some delicious, fresh tuna in Charleston on Saturday when we went to Sunset Beach for the afternoon. I was excited to grill some of it and make fish tacos. I grilled it up with some garlic, olive oil, basil, a little salt and pepper. They were thick tuna steaks and cooked up on the grill so beautifully. A nice char on the outside and soft, tender and flaky inside. yum! I fried some corn tortillas for chips and taco shells and grated Monterey Jack cheese over the t

It was raining that morning. It never rains in the desert but somehow that morning the skies opened up and water poured on us as we finished packing and loading the vehicles. Possibly a little preview from the universe of what our new coastal home would be like. It was December 30th (the day before New Year’s Eve). The morning of the big move, we were still packing things up to the last minute. My dad and step-mom and Dennis’ mom and dad were meeting us at our house at 9am. W

Selling the house was a roller coaster. If you have ever sold a house that you’ve lived in for over two decades, you’ll know what I mean by roller coaster. For those of you who have not had the opportunity to go through this incredibly painful, euphoric, chaotic experience, I’ll try to share the intensity of what it felt like. When we returned home from our trip to Oregon, we knew the first step was getting the house listed for sale. We both belong to the Lions Club and we

Our drive home from the Oregon coast back to the Mojave desert was one filled with a mix of anticipation, excitement, fear, and dread. We talked almost non-stop, trying to anticipate every aspect of the process once we got home. Listing our current home for sale, putting in an offer on the lake house, packing, saying goodbyes to our friends and family, and the plethora of other things we were unsure about. We were excited to move to the Oregon coast, to move into our dream ho

The cabin on Tenmile Lake was our dream home. We kept running the details of the house through our minds. We planned out where our things would go and how much we would need to get rid of to downsize and fit into the smaller home. Was it possible we could move into this beautiful cabin in the woods, sitting over a lake? I kept talking about how much the house already felt like home when we visited with the real estate agent. Sitting on the couch, looking through the amass of