animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

sold!

We sold our rental house as of Monday. Finally. I had a love/hate relationship with that place. It was nice to have the income (though once you figure in taxes, upkeep, insurance, etc., it didn’t amount to that much), but I always hated dealing with potential renters. And, it seemed …

crunch time

It’s hard to believe, but Jake is going to be a senior next year. That means, we can move any time after he graduates. Whether we’ll be ready to move is another question. There are a lot of things we’d like to accomplish with the house before then, just to …

the weekend

The weekend held a lot of activities. The main activity was a camping trip with the Boy Scouts, which Brian and Jake attended. They left Saturday afternoon and came back Sunday morning. While it was a bit cold out (and there was actually snow on the ground at the campsite), …

new obsession

Last fall had us thinking about buying a new house. While we were able to talk ourselves out of that idea, we have not been able to talk ourselves out of owning some land. It is doubtful that we would find a land/house combination that we’d like so that leaves …

another house

A couple of weeks ago, we went to look at another house. Well, we didn’t have an appointment with a realtor, so I guess you could call it “trespassing”. We just walked around the property and peeked in the windows. This place had a lot of acres, but they weren’t …