I Am Writing This For You
To The New Owners Of My Lovely Home,... To the new owners of my lovely home:
I can remember driving up to the empty lot. It didn’t look like much from the street, not nearly large enough, but the builder said to get out and walk around before judging it. I didn’t even want to move. I was happy in my little house, but my husband really wasn’t happy and wanted something more. I finally gave in. When I spoke with the man who would build our home, I asked for the moon. Well over the phone he came pretty close. Walking the lot and the neighborhood sealed the deal.
There is a little bit of wild life in the area to be viewed from the back windows. Shortly after we moved in I was home alone and sensed something suddenly outside. I looked and a fox was on the back porch! I’ve only seen it one more time since. There are bunnies that drive my dog crazy and a couple of times there have been baby bunnies in the flowerbeds. There are the geese. Watch carefully when you walk around the neighborhood. Usually each spring you can see couple of ducks in the backyard. After you see them, watch for the ducklings, they cross the backyard and float in the creek. It’s really cute. There is a hawk that my husband named Harry that hangs out in the trees near the creek in the evening. After it rains, there is a strange looking bird, I think it’s a road runner; I call it the “gooney bird”. If you have a dog, I strongly recommend walking her on a leash as there are skunks. My schnauzer got sprayed once when she got out. Then there are all kinds of birds. When my husband lived here we put the bird houses on a pole out in the yard so the porch didn’t get too messy. I tried to clean this up as best as I could.
The flowerbeds are awful. They weren’t always, but it’s been a stressful year. I haven’t paid any attention to them. I always tried to plant something in front of the garage window. For some reason, this never worked for me.
We planned every room in the house for our family’s future. The little room in the front was our son’s. Our older daughters slept in the rooms on the other side of the house. We planned on moving our son over to the other side of the house when the girls left home and I was going to have our grandkids stay in his room when they visited us. Unfortunately, the best laid plans didn’t work out.
The master bedroom is the coolest in the house. The study is the hottest. Leave all the closet doors closed or it will affect the temperature of the house. I suppose it’s not well insulated inside closets. The upstairs I used for running on the treadmill but it’s really noisy. The movie room (actually probably really the coolest room) provided many hours of entertainment at first, it’s been so long since I’ve relaxed in that room. We had comfy movie chairs in there. All of the rooms used to have satellite tv/dvr and flat screens on the walls. That’s why there are so many holes.
The house has been on the market since November 2011. I thought for my birthday that month I might get a buyer. I have prayed and waited for someone to buy this house. It’s really lovely, but too much for me to maintain alone. I have prayed for you, the buyer’s, for blessings and many good times in this house. May you make many wonderful memories in the years to come!
I can remember driving up to the empty lot. It didn’t look like much from the street, not nearly large enough, but the builder said to get out and walk around before judging it. I didn’t even want to move. I was happy in my little house, but my husband really wasn’t happy and wanted something more. I finally gave in. When I spoke with the man who would build our home, I asked for the moon. Well over the phone he came pretty close. Walking the lot and the neighborhood sealed the deal.
There is a little bit of wild life in the area to be viewed from the back windows. Shortly after we moved in I was home alone and sensed something suddenly outside. I looked and a fox was on the back porch! I’ve only seen it one more time since. There are bunnies that drive my dog crazy and a couple of times there have been baby bunnies in the flowerbeds. There are the geese. Watch carefully when you walk around the neighborhood. Usually each spring you can see couple of ducks in the backyard. After you see them, watch for the ducklings, they cross the backyard and float in the creek. It’s really cute. There is a hawk that my husband named Harry that hangs out in the trees near the creek in the evening. After it rains, there is a strange looking bird, I think it’s a road runner; I call it the “gooney bird”. If you have a dog, I strongly recommend walking her on a leash as there are skunks. My schnauzer got sprayed once when she got out. Then there are all kinds of birds. When my husband lived here we put the bird houses on a pole out in the yard so the porch didn’t get too messy. I tried to clean this up as best as I could.
The flowerbeds are awful. They weren’t always, but it’s been a stressful year. I haven’t paid any attention to them. I always tried to plant something in front of the garage window. For some reason, this never worked for me.
We planned every room in the house for our family’s future. The little room in the front was our son’s. Our older daughters slept in the rooms on the other side of the house. We planned on moving our son over to the other side of the house when the girls left home and I was going to have our grandkids stay in his room when they visited us. Unfortunately, the best laid plans didn’t work out.
The master bedroom is the coolest in the house. The study is the hottest. Leave all the closet doors closed or it will affect the temperature of the house. I suppose it’s not well insulated inside closets. The upstairs I used for running on the treadmill but it’s really noisy. The movie room (actually probably really the coolest room) provided many hours of entertainment at first, it’s been so long since I’ve relaxed in that room. We had comfy movie chairs in there. All of the rooms used to have satellite tv/dvr and flat screens on the walls. That’s why there are so many holes.
The house has been on the market since November 2011. I thought for my birthday that month I might get a buyer. I have prayed and waited for someone to buy this house. It’s really lovely, but too much for me to maintain alone. I have prayed for you, the buyer’s, for blessings and many good times in this house. May you make many wonderful memories in the years to come!
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