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Ready for Rain 2019 Ready for Rain 2019 Essays about starting over on Orcas Island By Lee LeFever Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................. 4 The Guy with South Carolina Plates ............................................... 5 Fear of Missing In .............................................................. 7 As The Salmon Sizzled .......................................................... 9 Camping on Tuesdays .......................................................... 12 The Yurt ...................................................................... 14 We Bought a Yurt Shaped House ................................................. 17 The Day the Dome Came Down .................................................. 21 The Deer Trap ................................................................ 25 The Second Place ............................................................. 29 The View from the Yurt ........................................................ 34 Breaking the Rules at the Westsound Potluck ...................................... 40 Living in Public ............................................................... 44 Aboard the Elwha ............................................................. 46 The Hunter House Project ....................................................... 51 It Was a Dark and Stormy Night ................................................. 55 Utter Destruction at the Hunter House ........................................... 57 Behind the Name: Ready for Rain ............................................... 65 Living the Half-Life. 72 Finishing the Hunter House .................................................... 74 Goodbye, Seattle .............................................................. 81 Born to Move ................................................................. 86 The Surprising Origin of the Name “Orcas” Island .................................. 91 Phase Change ................................................................ 95 Getting the Project Started ..................................................... 98 Sharing a Brain ............................................................... 101 Good Lives Make Bad Stories .................................................. 104 The Guest House ............................................................. 107 The Builder .................................................................. 111 The Grinch on the Hill ......................................................... 115 The House Plans .............................................................. 118 The Reveal of the Number ..................................................... 123 The Path Forward ............................................................ 126 A More Affordable Design ..................................................... 129 Why Orcas Island? Why now? .................................................. 134 Goodbye to the Yurt .......................................................... 144 2 The Demolition ............................................................... 151 Trees, Wood, and Fire ........................................................ 163 Seafaring with “Short Story” .................................................... 173 Breaking Rocks .............................................................. 180 Everything is Temporary ...................................................... 188 Your Questions, Answered ..................................................... 193 Out of the Ground ............................................................ 198 Rocks, Sand, Lime, and Water ................................................. 205 We’ve Got Crabs ............................................................. 215 Best Laid Plans .............................................................. 224 The Project in Pictures ........................................................ 229 A Peek Behind the Curtain ..................................................... 238 Big and Beefy ................................................................ 246 A Return to Herb’s ........................................................... 254 Gettin’ Hygge With It ......................................................... 257 It’s About Time .............................................................. 260 52 Weeks of Change .......................................................... 264 3 Introduction At the beginning of 2019, I set a goal to publish one essay per week for all of 2019, which ended up becoming the most pivotal year of my life. The stories I told documented, in re- al-time, how it felt to leave a city I’d loved for over 20 years, move to an island off the coast of Washington State and start building a new house and life with my wife Sachi and our two dogs. It’s a story of committing to change and making lifestyle a priority. GetReadyForRain.com #readyforrain @leelefever LeeLeFever.com © 2019 Lee LeFever 4 Dec 27, 2018 The Guy with South Carolina Plates Issue #1 “Would the owner of a white Toyota Tacoma, with South Carolina plates, please go to your vehicle?” This was not something I expected or wanted to hear coming from a loudspeaker of a ferry in the middle of Puget Sound, but there it was. My truck had gone and gotten into trouble. As I made my way down to the car deck, I imagined my fellow passengers waiting and watching for the person who now confirmed every stereotype they had about the South. They had opinions, and I’m quite sure the phrase “South Carolina plates” caused the ferry to list, just a bit, from eye-rolls alone. Having arrived in Seattle only weeks before I was already self-conscious about fitting in and adapting in this new environment. I desperately wanted to feel like a local who had it all un- der control. And now the public announcement had outed me as the guy from South Caro- lina who didn’t know how to park properly on a ferry. And I only lived in South Carolina for two years! My heart raced as I walked closer to the truck; a walk of shame. What could have possibly happened? Two ferry representatives were standing near the tailgate with knowing smiles. One of them radioed that I was now on the scene and no further announcements were nec- essary. They led me around to the front of the truck where I saw the source of the problem. The front bumper of my truck was now resting on the back bumper of a small sedan. They explained, based on plenty of experience I’m sure, that I had left my manual transmission in neutral and forgotten to use the parking brake. When the ferry left the dock, the motion caused my truck to drift onto the bumper of the car in front of it. Typical South Carolina 5 6 The Guy with South Carolina Plates mistake, right? Soon enough, they called for the owner of the sedan, without mention of this person’s li- cense plates, to come to their car. To me, it sounded like the victim was summoned to the scene of an interstate crime. He arrived and we discussed how to decouple the vehicles with the least damage possible. I climbed into the truck, put it in reverse and slowly moved back- ward as the sound of scratching metal echoed off the metal walls of the hulking boat. We all cringed and I felt a bit of relief. His bumper sported a nice new set of scratch marks but was not damaged otherwise. My truck was fine. I apologized, we exchanged insurance information and it was done. For the rest of the ferry ride, I tried to blend back into the general population. My secret seemed safe. A few weeks later, I received a call from the sedan owner. He let me know that he was not going to fix the bumper and would not file a claim with the insurance company. I breathed a sigh of relief. Just before hanging up the phone, he said in a friendly tone, “So, you’re off the hook. Welcome to Seattle!” I’ll never forget those words. There was no better welcome to the city for a young man with South Carolina plates. Today, I’m on Washington State ferries a few times a month and often hear an announce- ment for someone to tend to their vehicle. Just a week ago, Sachi and I both smiled when we heard these words: “Would the owner of a gunmetal Jeep with a dog inside, or that used to have a dog inside, please go to your vehicle. That is all.” We looked around. Somewhere on the boat, a poor soul, not unlike me, was on their own walk of shame, this time to collect a dog. Through the giggles and eye-rolls, I empathized. As a Seattleite, it was my time to give them a break. Jan 8, 2019 Fear of Missing In Issue #2 One of my all-time favorites tweets was shared by a user named Diego in the summer of 2018. It said: “I used to sneak out of my house to go to parties. Now I sneak out of parties to go to my house.” This simple tweet captures what I’ve been feeling over the last five years. Home seems to have more of a gravitational pull than ever before. It’s like turning 40 reduced my interest in taking advantage of events around me, or likewise, increased my interest in being at home. This change stands in stark contrast to my approach to being social for most of my life. As Sachi will tell you, I have always been subject to F.O.M.O. (Fear Of Missing Out) when it comes to being out and about. In fact, this fear used to cause me real anxiety. As a weekend approached, stress would start to build. I worried that we didn’t have plans, or our plans were not enough. From my perspective, there was an entire city on offer and to spend a weekend not taking advantage seemed like a waste. I imagined somewhere in Seattle, people were doing
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