What Have We Done?

 What Have We Done?

It took about six months for the joy and elation to give way to feeling responsible for overwhelming tasks and duties and deciding next steps. We had heard horror stories about the permitting office in our county. And there were so many regulations for small land owners. (Duh! Washington!) It made our heads swim. We found out that properties under 10 acres have more stringent rules about logging. Ummm, too late now!

When we finally decided in 2020 that we should try to log the timber we had a pandemic. We discovered that what looked like to us to be lots of trees and good logs, seemed to the area loggers not even worth the bother! Those dollar signs we saw in our heads when we thought of selling our timber flew out the window never to be seen again! 


In hindsight, we could have logged all the property in 2017. Yes, the county would have slapped a seven year moratorium on our property, but we probably could have profited from the sale of the timber at that point. Well, maybe that wasn't a good idea either.

So we rode out the pandemic like everyone else.

Meanwhile, back in San Marcos, we contracted for a master suite and bathroom remodel. We hired a pair of guys in January of 2021, but again due to the pandemic and supply chain issues, they didn't finish until June. It certainly gave us a taste of what building in Washington would be like, we just didn't know it at the time! (Que foreboding music here.)










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