Moving On

So, it has really been a long time since the last post.   Since then, we put up a shed that was designed in the image of the house, with its own little sitting porch and plenty of room inside for a snow blower, lawn mower, and everything else for the outdoors.  It is a fine place and balances the property nicely, bringing something to keep the house in scale to the yard.

We also paved the driveway.  While we had hoped to keep the driveway as crushed gravel, the encroachment of weeds and the dust into the garage and house put us over the edge.  It looks super-fine, and we have absolutely no regrets about the change.

The biggest change of all is also the most recent.  We decided to move to San Francisco, changing just about everything in our lives, including selling our NextHouse.

We loved everything about our home.  The design phase was so interesting, with the engineering challenges associated with being the first of its kind.  The tear-down of the old house was wrenching, but the process of building the new place was absolutely great.  How often do people say they loved the process of building a house?  We will forever owe a debt of gratitude to our builder (Steve) and to all his guys and the others who worked to build it.  We will miss our yard and the wildlife - - in the last few weeks at the house, we had deer and wild turkeys "fighting" for rights to hang out on our septic mound.  All the weeding could be a black hole, but was so peaceful, and so we'll even miss that.  The deer that regularly destroyed the tomato, green bean, rose, and holly plants will be missed nonetheless.  We had the joy of bluebirds all winter (despite no bluebird house) and hummingbirds all summer (despite no hummingbird feeder).

All that said, our new city called, and off we have gone.  We already love our new city life, and will carry with us great memories of this home.  We wish the new owners all the happiness as they make this house their home.