PDXFox

Information de voyage

Actuellement, nous sommes

Description

We've returned from a 2-month stay in Europe, mainly France, Spain and Switzerland. We had a great deal of fun visiting and helping out friends we've made over the years when hosting them here in the US and doing a workaway ourselves.

During the past several years we have hosted many helpers via HelpX and Workaway. And during the summer of 2016, spring of 2018, winter of 2019 and fall of 2022 we were helpers ourselves. Our experiences have all been enjoyable and some have even introduced us to life-long friends. We hope to continue bringing our skills in home restoration, general maintenance, gardening, retail sales, communications, and hosting to others who are seeking help.

We are independent travelers and very clean, respectful guests. We don't have to be asked to help out with those day to day tasks everyone has -cooking, dish washing (and we actually do get the dishes clean), garbage removal, picking up around the house, putting tools away, etc. We are pretty laid back though, and will follow your cues. We hope to enjoy time with our host, sharing meals and getting to know one another over a cup of tea.
And we want to help you get your projects done. We are independent workers with a great deal of experience around homes and small businesses. We have restored two homes, an 1884 farm house and a 1923 bungalow. We are now working on restoring an 1890 Victorian cottage. Our Helpx and Workaway host profiles (PDXFox in each case) will detail a bit about these projects. We maintain a lovely garden at home and Kim and our two sons own a retail liquor store.

In our free time we like to walk around an area, talk to whomever might be around, generally take in the sights, sounds and people around us. We aren't big on a lot of the glitzy touristy things. But show us a little farmers market, a fair or an out-of-the-way place to hike, and you've got what we like to do.

Centres d’intérêt

Langues

Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant

Plus de détails sur les langues qui m'intéressent
We are happy to help others learn English.

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Compétences et connaissances que nous aimerions partager ou apprendre

Nous avons des connaissances :  

Aider dans une ferme

Accueil / tourisme

Langues

Enseignement

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Nous pouvons apprendre aux autres:  

Jardinage

Bricolage et projets de construction

Entretien général

Préparer les repas / cuisiner pour la famille

Aider à la maison

Quelles sont vos compétences ?

Having restored and maintained 2 homes (working on a third), raised two children to adulthood, and had successful careers in retail and electric energy, we bring a number of skills to any project you might have. Among those skills are:

general carpentry and woodworking
power and hand tool use
electrical and plumbing work
window glazing
wood finishing (stain, varnish, paint, etc)
wall papering
gardening (flower and vegetable)
communications (verbal and writing, but English only)
Microsoft Office products
retail business management
house cleaning and organization

Âge

71 & 72

Autres infos...

We had a great time being helpers during 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2022 and are sold as hosts and helpers. You can get a general sense of us by looking at our Workaway reviews as hosts: https://www.workaway.info/486427337617-en.html
We work well as a team but are also very good working separately. If one of us doesn't know how to do something, we can figure it out together!

Informations complémentaires

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  Allergies
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