We are moving to Northern Virginia. I wanted to downsize, and we did, but we still have over 4000 square feet of house and about 6 acres. I will only have 4 toilets to keep clean rather than 6.
Lee loves that there is grass to mow, but it is on a mostly level lot. Our current house has steep hills and we have to use a giant tractor to keep it up.
The new house has chickens in a fenced chicken yard. The current owners are moving across the country, so we offered to keep them. I had chickens growing up and they are so sweet. So now these are our chickens. And fresh eggs! Also, I will have animals that love kitchen scraps!
We will have a swimming pool. I hope this will help my back. At any rate it will be fun and hopefully encourage our daughter, who lives near the new house, to come for a lot of visits. At least during the warmer months!
We have more than a month until the move. So I am packing and Lee is taking a couple of trips a week to a storage unit near the new home. We decided to move all the small pieces and boxes ourselves. We will have movers pickup, store and then deliver our furniture.
This gives us something to do and it will hopefully save us a bunch of money. Our house looks like this now.
Now I have to figure out whether to rename this blog, and if so, what? Six acres does not a farm make. And we will no longer be in the Shenandoah Valley. Our new address is on Snickersville Turnpike. I have considered Snickers Doodles. Any suggestions?
So glad to hear this news! This sounds like a good move for you two, a property and home that will be more manageable. I bet your daughter is happy about this as well, to have you nearer to her, and don't you have a brother up that way as well? Win win for the entire family. Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteThank You! We are pretty excited except when in a panic of packing and planning the move. I know you understand.
DeleteSo happy for you. Its such a big chore to move...just did that 2 years ago and hope to never do it again. The new place looks lovely, and I really love the name "Snicker Doodles"...perfect in my mind. Happy trails and Congrats!!!
ReplyDeleteThank You! We are packing a little each day. It is still exhausting and I hate living in a pile of boxes. But I have to do it as I am trying to eliminate as much "stuff" as possible. I'm glad you like the name. I'm still trying to decide.
ReplyDeleteRebecca, congrats again and best of luck to you and Lee. It was exciting to see the title of this post and to read about and see the photos of your future "new" home. We well know the joy of moving and the frustrations of packing as well. Your possible choice of a new blog name sounds like a good choice, because the present one wouldn't work. Sometimes, I think of starting an entirely new blog and have several in mind, just too lazy to follow-through.
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