This weekend is full of activity to get "The Cabin" ready for sale.
It's gorgeous.
New floors, new paint, shining brightness. The new shingles are going on this weekend, and the outside of the house will get a shade darker with the new color "Wildwood Stable."
The window frames will be painted white and the worn ones exchanged for new.
It's all rather exciting.
The fourth (and new) bedroom is spacious and inviting. The walk-in closet is a real beauty!
We all feel a tug at the heart leaving our sweet old home after 16 years, but we are completely ready to move on and let it make a new family happy.
This evening I had my dear friend come out for a quiet supper and coffee on the porch here at the new Corgi Hollows. Ed made us a delicious stir-fry with fresh green beans from our neighbors. A delightful sign on their mail box invited us--- "Free, Picked Today! Green Beans"
It was around 9 pm last evening when I walked by so I figured everyone else had had their chance at the beans. I snapped them up.
The yard is newly mowed. The weather couldn't be more perfect. I'm enjoying both sunset and sunrise walks on the our country roads.
This morning we said a temporary good-bye to our Chinese student. She moved to her new apartment. We had a successful and productive week with her, helping her settle and get ready for school.
Yesterday she passed her driver's test, much to her relief. She took the test in our 12-passenger van (it is our only automatic transmission vehicle, the rest of them are manual) and she's used to a Smart Car!
Appointments for tests are booked until late September, so we waited at two different exam stations for a non-appointment test. It was a long day, but worthwhile.
We've really enjoyed getting to know this young woman. She's delightful and fun to talk with. Margaret will be connecting with her often at the University this fall.
Tomorrow we say good-bye to another good friend. He's entering the Army next week. His folks are giving a farewell bash and we want to be there.
The wheat up the road is truly amber colored. Hay is in its second cutting. Summer is ripening fast. As my friend and I drank coffee this evening the acorns fell from the oaks, sharply knocking on her car. Like hailstones.
The apples are starting to fall too. In a few days the blue jays will be telling each other that they need to make preparations for winter. I guess this means school approaches.
I used to get a sick feeling when I heard the acorns and jays. Harbingers of fall, the loss of summer, the loss of freedom. I don't feel like that anymore. I love these lush days of mid-summer. It is an unplanned joy to relive my childhood sights and sounds here in this new/old house.
School for us is just fun now. We do it all year, so there's no special dread of the "first day of school." We meld our school with each golden day.
It's a perfect summer.
It's gorgeous.
New floors, new paint, shining brightness. The new shingles are going on this weekend, and the outside of the house will get a shade darker with the new color "Wildwood Stable."
The window frames will be painted white and the worn ones exchanged for new.
It's all rather exciting.
The fourth (and new) bedroom is spacious and inviting. The walk-in closet is a real beauty!
We all feel a tug at the heart leaving our sweet old home after 16 years, but we are completely ready to move on and let it make a new family happy.
This evening I had my dear friend come out for a quiet supper and coffee on the porch here at the new Corgi Hollows. Ed made us a delicious stir-fry with fresh green beans from our neighbors. A delightful sign on their mail box invited us--- "Free, Picked Today! Green Beans"
It was around 9 pm last evening when I walked by so I figured everyone else had had their chance at the beans. I snapped them up.
The yard is newly mowed. The weather couldn't be more perfect. I'm enjoying both sunset and sunrise walks on the our country roads.
This morning we said a temporary good-bye to our Chinese student. She moved to her new apartment. We had a successful and productive week with her, helping her settle and get ready for school.
Yesterday she passed her driver's test, much to her relief. She took the test in our 12-passenger van (it is our only automatic transmission vehicle, the rest of them are manual) and she's used to a Smart Car!
Appointments for tests are booked until late September, so we waited at two different exam stations for a non-appointment test. It was a long day, but worthwhile.
We've really enjoyed getting to know this young woman. She's delightful and fun to talk with. Margaret will be connecting with her often at the University this fall.
Tomorrow we say good-bye to another good friend. He's entering the Army next week. His folks are giving a farewell bash and we want to be there.
The wheat up the road is truly amber colored. Hay is in its second cutting. Summer is ripening fast. As my friend and I drank coffee this evening the acorns fell from the oaks, sharply knocking on her car. Like hailstones.
The apples are starting to fall too. In a few days the blue jays will be telling each other that they need to make preparations for winter. I guess this means school approaches.
I used to get a sick feeling when I heard the acorns and jays. Harbingers of fall, the loss of summer, the loss of freedom. I don't feel like that anymore. I love these lush days of mid-summer. It is an unplanned joy to relive my childhood sights and sounds here in this new/old house.
School for us is just fun now. We do it all year, so there's no special dread of the "first day of school." We meld our school with each golden day.
It's a perfect summer.
