Basically the pricetag of a “BetterPlace”/Silver Home, with or without counting what I spent on the lot I have, is 100K.

And for the Camper/mobileSanctuary, 50K.

(Wiping all extant debt is a number in between.)

I have various half-baked schemes that would get me both, for as little as half of that money, but none of them are a sure thing as of this writing. For a hot minute I thought the Durango guy could fix it all for even less, but that would be very dependent on the interpretations of the zoning gods, and having to trust in them is no happy prospect.

These five-figure numbers are my focus.

Perhaps that will explain why three figures, say for a toilet or an ignition switch, are not.

I don’t know of any simpler way to say it.

Trying to figure out simpler ways is costing me a lot of weariness, here in the day to every day, and what’s worse is that I know in my heart that narrative complication is not the thing stalling progress.

So I think I’ll stop doing that, for my own good, and maybe just perseverate in replying with a link to this post, over and over if necessary, whenever the subject is raised, and get on with the business of better mornings here in the hole.