Friday, May 22, 2015

Whats Changed?

So the rooms in the last post don’t look like that anymore. They have all been emptied and put on a truck. The townhouse sold in 4 days. We only showed 4 or 5 times and an open house … and by day 6 had a full price offer. So we are now 5 weeks later and are ‘homeless’ for a few more days.

FR-empty LR-empty

Tuesday the movers showed up and loaded all our stuff onto a truck in about 6 hours. Wednesday I cleaned the place and Thursday we were on the road headed west. No pictures … because we took 2 cars and mine was loaded… 2 dogs and a U-haul trailer. After driving all day we arrived, and were exhausted. We had a wet drizzly drive… all day. Good for the dogs in the car and very good for the plants in the trailer.

entering-ky

Yep, going to be living in Kentucky…. We picked Kentucky for a couple of reasons. It is below the frigid snow line of northern IL, green with hills and trees, DH is from here and my roots are about 2 hours north in Ohio. We spent a fruitless weekend looking near/around the Paducah KY area, but nothing there that fit our needs. We returned home, regrouped and went back to the Louisville area. Found a place… and put in an offer… and then the struggles began. It is not fun selling 2 houses and buying another all at the same time! I don’t ever want to do that again.

We close on the new place next week and the furniture and goods will be delivered a few days later.

Today we had a free day, as we waited for things to start shaking out.

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This lake is about a mile from the house. Walking distance for sure. It has a walking trail all the way around (7 miles of trails)… but it will be nice for the dogs. The lake allows fishing, and non-motor boats, has picnic pavilions, paddle boats, docks and a fenced dog parks.

There is an old historic home on the grounds… might prove a good place for some flower pictures. But I saw this little thing sunning herself… took a quick snap with the phone. She is resting against the blue ….

Free-Squirrel

And there appears to be barn quilts every where… this is also at the lake!

Barn-Quilt

Ok… all for now, but More Later!

Beth