Getting settled in our new (temporary) home

We have been rather spoiled for the last 15 years or so, not needing to live in a rental house while we built another house or remodeled one. The last rental house we lived in was on Bridle Hills Drive when Lisa was in first grade. That's been quite awhile ago.

Finding a place to rent in Hawaii was a much bigger challenge than we thought it would be. It wasn't that there were limited places to choose from or that the rents were so incredibly high (although they are a lot higher than in Logan); no, the hard part was finding someone who would allow the dog. We follow generations of people who rented houses and brought with them un-trained dogs and poorly behaved dogs. Many landlords simply say no, no matter what.

We were offered the opportunity to house-sit for a family in our ward while they were on vacation on the mainland. This gave us another two weeks to find something and, of course, it was at the very last minute that we decided on a house (the only house left that would take all of us). We moved in the night before Bruce left for Utah and Nevada to do the fireworks show, but didn't sleep in the house until after he left and the people in whose house we were staying came home. It's a 3 bedroom/2 bath house with a 40x8 foot screened-in lanai and an ocean view. We agreed to do the yard work in exchange for a discount on the rent.

The day before we moved in we saw a sign in the village for furniture for sale. It turned out that the furniture was used furniture from a hotel complex. And everything was garage-sale priced. It isn't what we would have picked out in a furniture store, but it will certainly do for now and until the rest of our furniture is here from Logan (whenever that may be). We bought a sofa-bed, a bed for grandma, a large side chair, a couple of nightstands and a couple of other pieces. Combined with what Bruce had already scavenged before I arrived on the island and we have almost all the furniture we need. We also bought a new bed for ourselves; the only thing we've bought new in the way of furniture. But now we can welcome anyone who wants to visit!

The pictures are of the outside of the rental house. I'll take more pictures inside when we've got everything figured out. We're still working on a couple of tables where I can sew and/or bead and/or paint. I'm anxious to start a new painting. The water here is so inspiring! I may just do a couple of landscapes or seascapes to begin instead of flowers.