Our old house

Ta da...


Our old house! It has been a long week and a half since we closed but we are thrilled to be in our new old house. The house was built in 1912 but sat empty for several years and had deteriorated badly. The person from whom we bought the house acquired it in its derelict condition and rehabbed it. So although the house is old, it has new windows, a new roof, a new furnace, a new water heater, new bathrooms and a new kitchen.

One of my favorite features of the house is the side porch, which faces the cemetery across the street and the Seneca River beyond. Come spring and summer, we will spend a lot of time on the porch. I adore that we have a river view from three sides of the house and I can hear the geese and ducks as they fly to/from the river.

Last Saturday in the midst of unpacking boxes that the movers delivered and schlepping stuff over from the apartment, we had a knock on our front door. There stood a little old lady, who introduced herself, welcomed us to the neighborhood and handed us a pan of fresh baked brownies. Her name is Odette and she lives about seven houses away from us, she has been married for 50+ years to the same man and her house was built in 1860 - we learned that in the first five minutes of speaking with her! But we were so touched by her kindness that I nearly cried; never in our five years of living in Georgia did any neighbor do anything, well, neighborly.

We are tired, sore, our fingers are cut and our bodies are bruised from the physical efforts of moving and unpacking, but every time I drive down the street and see our house, I smile. It is good to be home.



I will post interior photos of the house once we have more things in place.

Note: It snowed last night and has snowed off and on all day, but we only have about three inches. Nothing like Buffalo received midweek!

Déjà vu

"It's like déjà vu all over again."
- Yogi Berra

Just about this time last year, I put the blog on hiatus while we wrapped up living in Georgia and moved to New York, and I am putting it back on hiatus again, albeit for a shorter period of time. We are scheduled to close on our new (to us) home in B'ville on Tuesday afternoon and the movers will deliver our household goods on Wednesday. That strange noise you may hear on Wednesday morning will be me expressing my great joy at being reunited with the bulk of our furniture and kitchen items!

Between getting everything in place and then moving out of our apartment, there is not going to be any spare time in my life to post. There is also going to be about a four day period of no Internet access; despite Verizon assuring us several weeks ago that it would be no problem to schedule connection at the new address within a week, it turns out that is not the case when it actually comes time to set the appointment. So why didn't we schedule the appointment weeks ago? Because we did not know until Friday morning the date of our closing, and therefore our move-in date. So unless I can piggyback on someone else's signal or I go sit in the library, the blog will be dark for a while. I am sure we will all survive.

We are excited about having our own place again, about not sharing walls or a parking area with other tenants, about having more than 800 square feet! When I return to the blog, I promise photos and details about the house. Until then, ciao!