Agree, the hours are awesome!!
Well, he's into fishing!
JK!! When we moved here, the plan was that he was going to take off the first year, or so, and do stuff to the place we bought. Paint...throughout, some outside projects, minor stuff, go fishing, and relax some. Plus, cook and do stuff around the house for me.
He'd tease that he worked the first 30 years of our marriage as the "breadwinner", now it was my turn.
Which was fine with me. He totally deserves the time. (He had residual income from commissions coming when we left IL.
) He had literally just finished his last home project here when Ian hit.
Our home flooded 6-10 inches, so we made the decision to rehab it instead of replace it.
Our structure was good, we had plywood floors under the flooring, (some had particle board, it was game over for those homes) So he pulled flooring, cut walls, pulled insulation, did the mold remediation steps, etc. Then put everything back in. Insulation, walls, flooring, etc.
Our neighbors across the street decided not to return and sold their place to us for a very good price, so when he was done with our place, he started over there.
It's been a good thing that he didn't have a job, or we couldn't have done all this.
Down the road, we'll use it as a guest place, or rental, or sell it. Haven't decided.
He's still working over there. Just had, and passed final county inspection yesterday for the inside work. Now he's starting on the outside stuff.
The structure over there was pretty good after Ian. Plywood floors under flooring, very minor roof damage, so redoing that place was similar to ours. The lanai is gone over there though, so that will be put back in at some point.
