Our House

 

We have been in this new house of ours for 15 months now, after living in our last one for 22 years.

We downsized the house and yard and have been very satisfied with our decision to do that.  It now takes me an hour to do lawn maintenance that before took three hours, which included mowing, trimming, and weed eating.  We are also on one level.

What I miss most is my HOT TUB.  I would get into that hot tub about 2-3 times a week, all year long, and relax in the 102/103 temperatures for about 20 minutes.  You would still be so warm in the winter once you got out, dried off, and put on a robe, that you would not really notice the cold, except maybe on your face.

This new house of ours is well laid out, better than our previous one, and we are really enjoying the difference.  My wife, spends her days out on the sunroom while I remain in the living room.

We have two spare bedrooms, both of which have been designated to our three cats.  One bedroom with the bed, is used for them to sleep and the other one is where their food and litter box resides.  They spend most of their time on the bed that was put there for guests, although, we never expected to have guests.

Every room has a fan except for the laundry room and bathrooms and garage.  Our garage is big enough for two cars and some storage against the walls and there is a small 20X20 foot area underneath the house for storage that also has a crawl space.  The yard is slopped so that you can gradually walk down to it.

There are trees on two sides of the house, a road in front of the house, so we only see the house of one neighbor.  The cats like the layout of the yard because it makes them feel surrounded and protected.

The house is very easy to cool in the summer and very easy to heat in the winter - well insulated, except for the sunroom which we are gradually working on.

Our neighbors are better than the ones we had before, and we are really pleased that we decided to move here.