Hurricane Cronesmoon ([info]cronesmoon) wrote,
@ 2009-06-02 08:41:00
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Viewing The Folly
My honey has made an appointment for us to go look at The Folly on Thursday evening. I suppose I'm mildly curious; it's probably where I'll spend the rest of my life, so perhaps I ought to be. But there's nothing to do about it. Seeing it won't change anything. If we were still in the deciding phase, I'd have wanted to see it to help decide; but since it's a done deal, I might just as well wait to see it when the deal closes and we move in.

But although I did say that, either my honey didn't believe me or he just wants to admire his purchase. Or wants me to admire his purchase. Anyway, the appointment is made, the owner is prepared to be intruded upon, and the real estate agent is prepared to take us there. (We're not sure why he wanted included, but hey, it's his time to do with as he will.) I hope it will have quit raining by then.

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(Anonymous)
2009-06-04 10:17 pm UTC (link)
Waiting. Pictures?

Mo

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[info]cronesmoon
2009-06-05 01:22 am UTC (link)
I didn't take a camera, but I do have the tiny photos that were all I'd seen before today. I'll try to figure out how to upload them somewhere. Meantime, comments: it's pretty nice. The rooms, of course, are mostly tiny, but we knew that; and probably they're perfectly big, it's just that I'm used to rooms the size of houses. Anyway they're well-tended, with fresh paint and lots of pretty wood trim. Downstairs is brighter than I expected for a basement apt, though the bedroom is cave-like. The kitchen there is quite fifties, but functional. I expect I'll do all my canning there, so as to not mess up and overwhelm the good kitchen upstairs.

There will be canning. There are raspberries in great plenty, a plum tree, a couple of apple trees, two peach trees, at least two pear trees, a cherry tree or two, blueberries, strawberries, and a garden full of squash and peas and beans and tomatoes, yum.

It's way out in what they think of here as "the country," by which they mean the houses are spread a little farther apart and some people have a horse or two. Seems like a very long drive on narrow winding roads that I shouldn't think my honey would find much fun in winter, but he claims to have taken that into account.

On the whole, I expect it will be nice. Did I mention it has a hot tub built into the back porch deck, and an above-ground pool with a deck built mostly around it a little farther from the house? And a charming koi pond by the front door. The owner is a very pleasant woman who chatted merrily about everything the whole time we were there. When I pointed out the kitchen table-and-chair set to my honey because I'd been saying I wanted one like the one I'd seen in the photos, she gave me it! She's remarrying and moving into her honey's fully furnished home, so doesn't need all the furniture she has now; but jeez, she could have sold it for a couple hundred bucks, I betcha.

Anyway, I expect we'll settle in quite comfortably as soon as the pesky loan goes through (held up the last few weeks by the VA inspection, which keeps not taking place). I'll get those photos uploaded somewhere asap.

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