Went back to house number 2 this morning since we didn't see much last night in the dark. It looked pretty good to me last night. Well it was still pretty nice this morning only the daylight also revealed all the problems that house has. It would have needed a new roof on the house, the garage and the work shop. Also the electrical looked rather scary! A lot of major work. So we went on to meet with Carol at noon at this sweet little tourist village resembling a bit Julian outside San Diego, just much smaller. Carol had 3 more properties to show us so hoped into her car and did some more cruising but you know, I think David and I had our mind allready made up. We just didn't like anything anymore since that funky little house with a big barn stole our hearts yesterday. We asked Carol if we could swing by it one more time and again it just was that this hobbit house (of course bigger but just as cute) called our name. After roaming the place for another half an hour we were ready to make an offer and decided to go back were our car was parked in the little tourist place and started to sign the contract over a glass of wine. I am insanely happy because all of you will be blown over when you see our silly house which looks like it just walked out of a antique country house magazine with worn tilting wood floors, lots of old built in cabinets made from rough wood, silly paperd kitchen as you can see in the pictures and just oozing country charm. I will leave everything just as it is, not even refinishing the scaffed and marked wood floors. We only will have to pull up the carpets in three rooms and I want to get a new stove though the one in the kitchen now looks okay, but I dream of a ceramic top stove. Then we have to have the chimneys checked since the 3 fire places haven't been used in a while. And there is also a drainage problem because the spring on the property just runs water every where so will need to be directed away from the garage and the house. Otherwise we are ready to go!
Yep friends and family, we are so ready to move into our hobbit house. Will have to visit all those hundreds of antique stores here in the area and attend all the dozends of weekly auctions in order to furnish our house. Some of our IKEA stuff will just not do here. Oh, life is good! Did I tell you also the today was a cloudless sky and sunny all day. It must be a good sign. We will know hopefully by tomorrow if our offer has been accepted. Please work on the sending good thoughts again, we nned all the help on this.
Love you all my friends. Enjoy the pictures.
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