I was also going to chat with Hucka D. about the house situation — *houses* — but I felt like I shouldn’t undercut Carrcassonnee’s own comments. So I’ll just chat with myself. Here’s the deal. We have a chance to sell our current house and then buy a new house we’ve had our eye on. The House on The Hill.
We’ll have to sell cheap. But we bought it cheap. We’re moving up. But then we can sell up. If we were smart we’d have sold about 10 years back. But where to move at the time? There’s another house in the neighborhood that might sell for close to twice what we get for ours, but with a similar floor plan. That’s what we’re looking at.
My “new” job and new office are stabilizing. Just have to catch on to my main new part of the job; I won’t describe it in any detail except to say that it’s an extension of what I do presently.
Is it worth working another year for, however? When we bought the present house I was a *contract* person, working year to year without any guarantees. Now it’s pretty clear sailing to the finish line. 5 1/2? Probably 6 1/2. Maybe more now? Edna is 7 1/2 years out.
We still plan to move to Middletown after retiring. We still own land there that we can build on.
Creativity: I’m very pleased with the Sunklands site. Must protect. Must build upon it. Protect the collages, the a/v synchs. Protect the writing.
This could be the last hurrah in Blue Mountain. We’ve both basically lived here since we were 17, subtract a couple of years here and there. This will be a way to sum it all up. The House on The Hill.
Before we bought the present house, Edna reinforced to me last night that we’ve never lived anywhere, after we came to college and left the home nest, for longer than 3 years. We’ve been in this place *18* plus years now. But this is the first house we’ve owned instead of rented.
What is the grand plan? Still to move to Middletown, of course. But there we want to build a *new* home, and probably a modular one. Low maintenance for our old age. The House on The Hill is, in contrast, a quite old house for Blue Mtn. 90 years old. Just the kind of house we’re *attracted* to, but we said we wouldn’t buy because of the maintenance costs. Yet here we are. On the brink of making an offer on one.
Is it a siren lure? We’ll be there 8-10 years, then hand off to someone else. We plan *minimal* repairs — only the necessities. The upstairs will remain unfinished except for that one room which will be *my study*.
We’ll have to rewire most of the house. We’re thinking of taking that off of the cost.
We still have some decisions to make.
Sunklands 