BIG NEWS

YUP!!!!!!  I HAVE BIG NEWS FOR ONCE!!!!!

I am on the move again.  I know there will be some out there that will think I am crazy but this move not only feels necessary, but right.

As you know Monte has been off grid for over a year.  But, due to a forced hospitalization last November, after a couple of months of medication, he has come back to the land of living and is talking to me.  For which I am eternally grateful.  I can't even begin to tell you!  And as you know, I haven't seen him until this week for over 16 months.  Also I have never seen his place.

And I am broken hearted at what I am seeing in this place.  It is a total filthy shit hole, totally appalling.  The only time I have seen dirt like this is in some of the houses we took back as mortgage brokers.  The dirt here is from years and years and years of neglect.  The plaster walls are awful.  The floors are ruined.  The bathroom isn't even describable.  And the kitchen....unworkable.  My poor boy.  Thrust into this shit and too mentally ill to help himself out of it.

And even though he is so so much better, he is always going to need help.  And that person is going to be me.  I am pretty sure that is why I am on this earth right now, right here and able.  But the most heartening thing of all is not only is Monte excited and happy about this development, but I have the support of my family, including my beloved sister.  If any of them had not felt right about this it would have made it so difficult.  There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is what I need to do.

And let me tell you that when I drove into this incredibly beautiful little town, I just felt good and at home.  I am pretty familiar with Port Alberni.  The twenty years we had a place in Bamfield, we had to pass through Port to get there.  Plus my brother and his family lived here for many years and we did a lot of mortgages in this place.

Plus I think that this is the last place in BC that you can get a pretty decent place for 250,000.  The town is surrounded by the most beautiful giant pointy snow covered mountains.  The town sits right on the edge of an inlet, channel that runs inland from the ocean...fiftyish miles away, where Bamfield is.

Now to be fully honest, the town tends to have its fair share of misfits.  But everyone is so supremely accepting and friendly.  Which bodes very well for my 6'9" son with the tangled long hair!  

Another bonus is the easy trip to Vancouver.  April lives right near the ferry dock and Aryn not far from there.  So its an easy one hour drive to the ferry, a comfy hour and a half ferry ride and twenty minutes to April's and half an hour to Aryn's.  It will make it easy for them to come to us as well.

So here we go again.  The fourth move in five years.  Good thing I like moving!  Time to throw out a whole bunch more stuff!!  First I have to see what kind of place we get, how big etc.  Houses seem to be selling like hot cakes here so I have to be quick about it.  I don't think it will take long for my place to sell, at least I hope not.  I am coming back here in May, hopefully find something and then take Monte back to Kamloops with me to help me pack up.  Well, best laid plans and all that.  One thing I know for sure, I ain't doing a thing to this dump..like putting lipstick on a pig...I am going to save my money for the new place!  Wish me luck!!!  TTYL.  PS:  I will phone you Cookie and fill you in....