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I started this blog 5 years ago. I wrote two entries. I had high hopes. Then life happens. Funny thing about life, it keeps happening...

I moved last weekend into a beautiful..no scratch that.. quaint little farmhouse about a 30 minute drive from all of my normal daily activities. I moved because the rent on the two bedroom townhouse that I was renting would have exceeded $1000.00/month if I had decided to stay upon notice. So the next day, I searched on the web again and boom/bang we are now in a new place.

This new place- there is nothing new about it. In fact, I think it might be held together with duct tape. The night before the big move, I gained access to the cute little farmhouse and drove out to inspect what would become the place we call home. The first thing I noticed was that the deadbolt locks on the doors are extremely hard to use-- because the door/wood is so old, and the lock is so new? Perhaps the wood has warped so much since the locks were installed that they rub too much. I don't know, but at any rate, the handle on the door--that is what one would call a doorknob, is in fact just that- a knob on a door. It serves no other purpose than to be pulled- not turned- very hard in order to open the doors. In my mind, I have determined to make this feature an additional safety feature of the home. At least when the door is locked, no one is getting in and sometimes or out for that matter. I now know why the landlord said, "The house is unlocked, keys in the kitchen cupboard."

I glazed over the cobwebs and cracks in the walls as that is to be expected. I was a little surprised to find two dead mice in the basement, but glad they were dead. I did not expect to find the shower head held together with duct tape. Since we have moved in, I now see that our kitchen table doesn't really fit in the kitchen, as we can't open the refrigerator door. I have realize again that it sure is hard to ascertain the condition of a home with a 10 minute walk through, while the previous tenant's belongings still in the home and I continue to wondered how we are going to unpack our own stuff in this little place.

Well, I hope to share more of our adventures with you. Hopefully sooner than 5 years.
Blessings.