Meanwhile, back on the ranch

[primsong]

On another front entirely, we've still be househunting until we were sick of it. Just as we were about to give up and just settle for some cookie-cutter mass-tract house just to get it over with a house came along!

Now, don't ask me why it has taken me so long to find it - it was on the market for months, apparently, then taken off and just put back now. I drove over that way - I can't even say why - to see what the little realty sign was pointing at. It was a loooong driveway going back into trees. Intrigued, I turned my galumphing stationwagon onto the grass and gravel track and followed it. Behind another house that hid it from the road, I found a 5-bedroom daylight ranch surrounded by pines and firs - it's on almost an acre of land! Right in the middle of our overdeveloped suburbia! A little old man sort of popped out of the bushes to one side with his dog. I asked him if I could look around a bit, to see the back yard and he says "You want to just look inside?" You bet I did! He gave me the grand tour. I ran back home and grabbed hubby and then this man unlocked the (vacant) house a second time for him. Turns out he is the dad of the owner, who moved to CO, and knew the man who built the house himself (it's very homemade and unique). Then we had a third round with the Realtor and kids... Realtor is coming over this evening to fill out papers with us. Here's hoping...!

It's a dump, in some ways - It is sound enough but really needs a lot of "cosmetics" done to it. But hey, I can live with bit-by-bit fixing, done it before, and a big house on a big lot in our price range is not to be missed, even if it does need some help. A room for each of kids! Yay!

Eeeee.....! Happy, excited, anxious, hopeful - it's all there....

Comments

A piece of the Shire

[calafalas11.livejournal.com]

*crosses eyes and feet for luck* Hey! WHEN you get your house, you could always host a Bag End decorating party. You buy the paint and we supply the elbow grease. We could camp out 'neath your trees (or in the trees as some of us elven folk are more wont to do) and work on your house. Kinda like Habitat for Humanity, only we shall call it Hobbiton for Primsong! What say you?

Re: A piece of the Shire

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

Oooh Cal!! I really, really like this idea. I'd love to see the area and visit Prim and if'n I could do it in conjunction with something like this, that'd be awesome!!! Ooohh....Prim, I hope you get it! It sounds wonderful and like maybe the reason you lost the other one is this one was waiting for you.

Re: A piece of the Shire

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Ooh! A HouseMoot! Hey, I'd take free labor, sure.... Though if you were coming all the way out here, I'd rather take you to the beach instead... BeachMoot! Yeah, yeah... The more moots the merrier!

We just finished signing papers for the offer - we'll know by tomorrow night if they accept. hope hope hope

[the-tinidril.livejournal.com]

Yipeeee! *swings Prim around* And you won't have to leave "home" (church, neighbors, Ringer Friends)... =)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

*swings around with Tini* Yes! And then if we end up with another Moot we can have even *more* people come!

Maybe we'll have to hire your Faithwalker to come do his organic gardening thing to the front yard. :-D

happy days indeed

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

glad for you and yours.
I would volunteer to help at your house, and Tine would kill me, save I finish my own, but let me know how things go and perhaps I could round up a crew of friends and family and give you a Saturday of yardwork and house scrapeing and painting, I could bring the Elven and Rohan banners and we could end the day with a Long Expected Party.
Oh Prim, I am so happy for you and glad you are not leaving the west farthing

Re: happy days indeed

[primsong.livejournal.com]

What a sweet thought! Thankfully, it has cedar siding that has recently been pressure-washed and then restained, so no paint needed on the outside (woohoo!) - I'm grateful to still be in the same area too. It will make moving much, much easier, one carload at a time. :-) The nice thing is this means I get to pick out kitchen cabinets and carpet and stuff - how fun!

Re: happy days indeed

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

I can see that wonderful smile of yours even from here. The offer still stands. Yardwork or whatever. I also would help with the Elenor Project sometime, if need be.
Ever at your and your families service,
Ada

Moot Queens

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

Tini I am so happy when you post that picture I took of you two Sisters.
(((((((((Sisters)))))))))))

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds so awesome! I shall rub all my rabbit's foots for you (rabbitFEET)

It sounds like it has been waiting just for you to come along!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Aww, how sweet of you to massage their little feet for them that way! I didn't know you had it in you. Thank you!!!

[boriel.livejournal.com]

i wont jinx you by adding my congrats yet...but here's hoping! sounds like a dream home actually...and a little cosmetic is not that bad if it has the room you need.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

A little cosmetics doll up any old frump, even if she's a house. :-)

We have a long list stuck to our fridge now... paint this, remove that, replace the other...

But ooooo - the yard has a lot of very nice established plants and bulbs in it, I can see them under the overgrown holly, etc. Columbine, rhodies, lilies, roses... There's even a small grape arbor, a prune tree, 3 cherry trees and 2 apple trees by a teensy little greenhouse. Lots of diggin' coming up this summer I think.

[rosiegardener.livejournal.com]

it sounds wonderful, I could almost see it before my eyes ! Hope everything turns out as you want it to be. A room for each kid, huh ? Wish I have that one day too...

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

Yay! Praying it all works out after all this; I know it will be a great relief to you to be in "your house" -- even if it does need a bit of work. My hubby loves a "fixer upper" -- especially if the core of the place is just what is wanted.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Mine would rather just have hired hands come do all the difficult stuff, whenever possible, but yes! The "core" is great. There's a little trailer park with RVs along the far end so my folks can even park their RV nearby if they visit, and we're plant some sort of screen between them n us - arborvitae or some such, probably. I dunno - bamboo? Will bamboo grow under firs?

Yea Yea Yea!!!

[gondoriangirl.livejournal.com]

I'm praying for y'all! How exciting! I'm up for coming to help paint too!

Re: Yea Yea Yea!!!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

You are so cute when you bounce like that. :-)

And our offer was accepted! Now we get to do all the nitty gritty stuff until closing at the end of the month. How I wish you all really were closer - a moot would be so much fun, now that I'll have the room to sleep lots of people... and I'm only an hour or so from a good beach too! Or there's the Rose Gardens in Portland... or Mt Hood... Hey, if you ever want to just vacation out here a little, let me know! It wouldn't be a bad "base" for that.