We have a signed LOI. We're supposedly seeing an actual lease on Friday. Our architect is engaged. Our interior designer is putting together samples. We have a website. We have a landing page. We have a facebook (in stealth mode) with over 100 posts on it. We have a Pinterest (in stealth mode) with over 130 articles on it. We have all of our funding secured, but half of it is from the business that we were going to sundown. Our bank will not extend credit to the business we're standing up, despite 5 years of six-figure credit history and six figures of equity. So now we have to play debasing games related to proving whether or not our house is actually what the county says our house is worth. Which we have to pay for. Of course. I have never before worked so hard to risk so much. It has literally taken me eight months of 30-40hr weeks, above and beyond everything else I'm doing with my life, to get to this point... and I am so goddamn fatigued that all I can think is "i wonder if it's safe to start chilling that champagne because I'm getting sick of it mocking me from the wine rack." BONUS EYEBLEACH The green wall mockup, 3 weeks in
green walls are awesome. If all goes as planned, we'll have one of these.
This one will be purely aesthetic. While it's possible we may try and throw some herbs in there, the overwhelming majority of herbs are high light plants. At best I'll have a skylight to sit under. This is why the "test" - this thing is actually in a totally dark hallway being hit with some $11 Amazon LEDs which I'm evaluating with a PAR meter. Unfortunately it's designed for golf courses so "2-50 PAR" is one LED. On the plus side, I can hit at least 2 PAR. On the minus side, more than 50 PAR (which is where you cease to be a "low light" plant) requires about 11W of LEDs to be less than two feet away from the plants, which will not look good.
This being the dry run version, you dump water in it. The big boy version has a pump and a recirculating tank. The reason I did the little version was to see what I thought of their method, since it's different than the whole Wooly Pocket approach. 3 weeks in I rather like it.
I think it's scattered across like nine or ten pubskis. Long story short: after seven highly successful years in show business my family is moving back to Seattle where my wife is opening a birth center. This involves me sort of abandoning my career in place but since I have a novel at a boutique agency that's maybe not such a bad thing. Or at least, that's what I keep telling myself.
Ha. Pre-engineering at WWU, degree from UW, we've owned a house in Lynnwood since 2000. My wife did her schooling from pre-school to medical degree in WA and not only matriculated from Bastyr, she was baptized there back when the monks still owned it. I remember Goddess Kring before the Internet, Dick's before Labor Ready, Eagle before Lowe's, Ernst before Eagle, Bill Nye before he was the Science Guy and SoDo will always mean "South of the Dome." Appreciate the sentiment but we're coming home.