Maybe we should name the place “Tortuga Haven”
Lorena
One thing I was ecstatic to see the first time we went out to look at the property was that there were gopher tortoise holes. I’ve been a fan of…
Home and Garden
The studio, so far
(Cross-posted on my work blog) Here are a couple of inside-studio shots. Tim was originally going to start with the back deck for the house, but a little problem with…
If you want to sing out, sing out. And if you want to be free, be free.
…there’s a million things to be and you know that—- they’ll all happen at OUR NEW HOUSE! Sweet Zombie Jesus, what a trial. If this place turns out to be…
(Whispers)… “Houston, I think we’re a go for launch”
OK, I really, really hesitate to put this out there for fear of something ELSE going wrong… but we saw a lot of friends over the weekend, and of course…
Why do you want to live in the ass end of nowhere, anyway?
Sweet Zombie Jesus, I hardly even remember why, at this point. Well, I say that, but then I do things like trip over the garbage can while trying to thread…
So, where are we?
I’m writing one of those long, involved, navel-gazing posts about why Tim and I even want to move out into the ass end of nowhere, and it occurred to me…
Allegedly, we should know tomorrow.
So, we had one last card to play with the lender, and we played it today. He’s going to go over things with the underwriter tomorrow morning. Allegedly we should…
Down but not out
I had the weirdest dream last night. I was trying to check out of a hotel, but didn’t have enough money. So I had to play a complicated half-text, half-graphics…
No news is good news, right?
Still no word if we’ve gotten the loan for the 15 acres with the not-too-shitty mobile home and the totally amazing 2200sq ft studio. But no news is good news,…
Sometimes you just might find… you get what you need.
Continued from yesterday! So the first thing I did when Tim starting worrying over the bank dragging their heels was to download the Zillow app for my phone. I’d been…
You can’t always get what you want
Last week we decided to tell our friends, whose house we’ve been wanting to buy since April, that we’re glad they had other interested people lined up behind us because…
Tell me what you want, what you really really want
In case you haven’t picked up on this, Tim and I have been talking about moving the HaldeCon Household. We started earlier this year with an unexpected turn; we decided…