Another busy week in Bend cleaning, sorting and selling. It takes some time to figure out how much something is worth, then clean it, take photos and list the item of Facebook Marketplace or eBay or Craigslist - or a combination of all three. We currently have about 20 items listed on Marketplace, and about 8 on eBay. We have already sold about 50 items.
This week was a good week, as the boat sold. A very nice young couple who were super excited to get the boat. They drove down from Seattle, WA and arrived around 12:30 in the afternoon. We got to work right away going through the boat, and putting up the mast so they could see how everything worked on the boat. It was close to 6:30 p.m. before we were done. Kris spent most the time with them walking through the boat, and they had lots of "living on a boat" questions as well, about power, water, sewage, electrical systems and such - that she also talked with them about.
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| New buyers learning how to raise the mast |
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| Kris showing where all the lines go |
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| Buyers Matt and Kristina with Norm |
We also took a full trailer load of garbage to the dump. Norm has a tilt trailer, that he loads with his household garbage, and takes to the dump about twice a year. We had a full load, so got rid of that, and then have taken 4 trips to the recycling center with odd items like old butane bottles, paint, batteries, paper and electronics.
We are ready now to start with some of the harder items to price and sell, and there are two china cabinets full of collectible glassware to price and sell now, as well as the china cabinets.
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| The China cabinet packed with collectibles, not china |
In addition, there is a small collectibles cabinet on the wall, made from an old printers case.
You can see we have our work cut out for us, researching, pricing, listing and probably shipping all the items. All the items are things Kris's Mom has picked up over the years, and Norm doesn't care about - so trying to sell for the best value while we have the time to do so.
We still take our daily walks, as it has not been too smoky here from all the wildfires around. Enjoy seeing the local livestock as well as the wildlife.
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| Friendly cow along the walk |
One special project this last week was to take all the gold leaf, and mixed gold items that had no marks, or no sale value and melt them all down. Dean's brother Lee has a small kiln for just this purpose that we borrowed. Interesting process, and in the end we ended up with a small nugget.
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| Norm and Dean monitoring the gold melting kiln |
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| Our gold nugget - maybe 1/4 ounce of gold |
We have also spent time getting quotes and figuring out paint color for Norm's house, which needs to be painted. Have been using AI to try out different paint schemes, which works pretty well.
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| House and shop as-is |
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| One of the AI generated paint schemes we are thinking about. |
We have another full week of work ahead of us, and then we might take a break to visit friends in Montana and Washington.
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