8.13.2009

This is the Place, Maybe?

Our backyard? Maybe.

Way back in the back, back is Randy walking and doing our annual survey of "the final resting place", maybe.

We bought this property years ago with some friends. We were going to be next door neighbors, share an open fence, they'd build the pool, we'd have the court, and maybe even have twinner dogs with bff dog tags.

But change happens.

They are in Missouri, we are in Washington.

So every year, when we're here, we do "The Walk" and have "The Talk." Where do we want to end up. Where are we planning our lives to take us.

Hands down it would be great to not have neighbors right out our back door,

but the sagebrush and scruboak just doesn't compare to the pines and rhodies. For now the deer get the pick of the lots.


Maybe we'll have my brother build us another house like this. This is one he did for my sister, it is now her rental, maybe her 2nd home one day. A possible place for us to rent if and when we move. I used to think he was kind of a dumb construction worker, until he helped me out on a house we built with a partner. I was soooo impressed. When all his subs praised him up and down and the city inspector chimed in his praises and threw in a job offer, I knew Nate the Great was really great,

at house building,

and a few other things that his big sister hasn't mastered, yet :).