Last Wednesday night some of us headed over to our favorite little doughnut shop after church. The doughnuts were as yummy as normal, but the man was even more friendly than he usually is. He started saying how nice it has been to have known us, ect. Come to find out, he is closing up shop and moving to Washington DC. Friday was his last day, so I am very sorry to those of you who were not able to go have doughnuts with us. We are all very sad. It is one more reminder to us about a slow economy.
In other news we have closed on our house and have started right in getting some work done. I will post more when I have more time.
Some tragic news
Our House
Up to now, I have neglected to put pictures of our house on here, but it seems like things are getting very close, so I will take a chance. It's just a little, (1300 finished square feet) bungalow style home built in the 1940's. You can't see from here, but the house number is 229, the same address I had growing up, only a different street, town and state:)
At one time someone put a lot of thought and money into this yard. It has landscape rock, bark, mini shrubs, and little yard lights. It doesn't have grass here in the front though, just in the back and on the side yard. We want to re-pave the driveway and get rid of the rectangular bark area, to have a little more parking.
As you can see in the picture, the garage is short. That is because there is a bedroom above it that was added on later. Dale's little ranger will still fit in the garage though, just BARELY!
The window beside the door is the living room. It has 3 big windows on the back side of the house, so it is nicely lit. It also has wood floors.
The window on the right is to the master bedroom. It has wood floors too, but they need refinished, while the living room floors are still in good shape. The master is kinda small too, but anything would seem small after our last master bedroom!!
The window at the bottom of the picture next to the garage is Andy's room. His room is bigger than ours, but it is awkward and far from the bathroom, so he can have it!
This is the backside of the house. Window on the left is where the kitchen is. It was an addition, and it has 2 other windows and a back door with a window too.
You can see the 3 living room windows up on the back patio.
The little dormer with the window above is the guest room above the garage. It has all wood slat walls. It is very charming.
The patio is nice and big, about 12x20. We plan to take down the lattice and just have a regular hand rail and balusters. I think that will open it up a lot, because the right side is totally covered in lattice.
The back yard. This was beautiful when we first looked at the house. The bush on the right side is lavender and it's blooms were gorgeous. There is a nice big garden area in the little picket fence. It looks like they did square foot gardening because there are landscape dividers inside making square and rectangular sections. Back in the far right corner, you can just barely see the top of our storage shed beyond the brown, wood fence. All of the wood fence on the right is getting taken out. There is a white pretty fence about 6 feet on the other side of it, but the last owners had a dog run there that we don't need. We want the side of our yard to grow 6 feet all the way down one side instead! Again, someone at sometime, put a lot of effort into this yard. There is a meandering stone path, bark, pretty trees and bushes. It has just been let go. I am excited for spring, so we can see what we can do out there.
So there it is. We have some work to do, but it is cute and move in ready! They even had a cleaning service go in and spruce it up even more. It's just killing me that it is sitting there totally clean and ready and we are sitting here REALLY ready for our own house, but I guess things must be done properly. I have probably just jinxed us by giving you this info before we close. Please just pray that God will give us patience and help us accept His will!
Another Weekend
It was very nice to sleep in until 9 this morning and then we laid around and dreamed about our future home. Yesterday was a stressful day and now closing has been delayed somewhat until the 10th of November. So, again it was nice to take it easy and just do a little dreaming this morning. Then we got busy and cleaned off the porch, raked the yard, went to the grocery store for their screaming weekend deals, took a load of things to storage, did laundry, caulked sis Sharon's bathroom, and met the engineer at our future home. This last one was the highlight of our day, truly. He took away all our stress from the day before, and signed a paper saying the house is "structurally sound." Yippee!! I know we can make it another week. I am so thankful for today, I feel that God totally showed us his power. There was a huge foundation issue with the house and God allowed the engineer to sign off. I never dreamed that would happen. I am so sorry this process is taking so long and so I have to give you all the boring details. Hopefully someday soon I will FINALLY be in my new house and then maybe it won't be so consuming!
Tomorrow the church is having its Thanksgiving Dinner. I am making rolls, ham, and an eclair dessert. Dale hasn't been able to get exited about the dinner. He says it doesn't seem like Thanksgiving, so I didn't make him a pie. Most of you know how important pie is on Thanksgiving, but he didn't want to decide which kind, so he isn't getting any from me yet. It is too much work not to be appreciated.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
