House Sale Pictures, Part 4

Bittersweet as we plan on posting the "for sale" sign in the yard tomorrow.  I am excited about our new property.  I think the benefits to the children will be amazing.  I am excited about all the space and gardening and big skies and gazing out on the beautiful view.  

It took me quite a little while to fall in love with this place.  I remember complaining about it.  It was basic and boring, the yard was hard to work in because it is carved out into the hill, it is in a ravine so it takes the sun longer to light up the yard.  We have an overhead view of the sky only because of the steep tree lines on either side of us.  

Living here...and I guess assuming I would always live here...I have learned to love and appreciate this little home, in this little town.  As the time draws near to make a big transition, I find myself already missing certain aspects of this little urban farm, on this quiet street.

*I appreciate what my husband provides, I am so thankful for him!  We lack for nothing.  I am content here.  I feel very blessed.

*Because I assumed we would always be here, my thoughts and ideas of the future revolved around our home here.  Things are going to be very different from what we pictured.  I can't help but miss those hopes and dreams just a little as we switch gears so drastically...not that they are gone, not that they were ever even assured...it will be a different kind of adventure and I am still getting used to it.

*I will miss what this house represents/our memories - our first years together and bringing our brand new babies home and raising our toddlers in this space.

*I will miss this house, just in general.

*I will miss what is comfortable, safe, unchanging, stable, expected...truly life never is but we are comfortable here.

*I love how our house is tucked into the hillside...the air is warmer and stiller.

*I love how the ravine fends off the fog, I can see the downtown, covered in fog and yet the sun is shining here.

*I love the oak trees in the neighbor's yard outside my kitchen window.  In the drab of winter, I watch the squirrels jump from tree to tree.

*I love how the steep forested hillside shows spotty chartreuse green leaves of the deciduous trees in the Spring.

*I love the sunrise from the big window of the playoom that I stop and watch almost daily.  I appreciate what the sky shows me because my view is limited so I drink in the moments when the color and the clouds are magnificent.  

*I love our steep our yard is because it is so interesting with stairs and railings, retaining walls, raised beds, and rock walls.

*I love the tall evergreen trees, I appreciate the forrest so much more than I did.

*I love April and May in the neighborhood when all the flowering trees are at their showiest.  It is breathtaking.

*I love the signaling of Fall when the field burns produce black smokey plumes that rise up along the ridges.

*I will miss how the evening lighting in the Summer and Fall hit the tall trees in the NE corner of the loop with an orange glow and how the Fall light illuminates the golden leaves in the SE when it hits the creek in the morning and then creeps up toward our house.  

*I will miss familiarity and defined space.  I have lived here nearly 14 years and I know what to expect and look forward to in the garden and in the neighborhood with the passing of the seasons.

*I will miss our children playing with the neighbor children.  We are part of a community here.  

*I will miss traveling the familiar country roads...knowing where the flower fields are, where the beautiful view are, where the ginko or the contorted willows or the wild dogwoods are.  What houses have the showiest Spring flowers or the most stunning trees in the Fall.  My country roads will be very different.  I won't have much occasion to drive through Silverton any more.  I won't be accessing "town" from this direction any more.

*I will miss Phil just being a few miles away.

*I will miss my kitchen.  I love my kitchen!  

*I will miss the convenience of town...a walk to the library or the park.  A grocery store or a restaurant that Phil can quickly stop by on his way home.  Getting ice cream every so often on a whim.  

*I will miss the historicalness of our town - the old buildings, the layout of downtown, the creek running through the middle of it all, the beautiful old homes, the bridges, the parks, the murals, the yards...I think Silverton is delightful.

We have molded and shaped this space over the years.  It will be hard to turn it over to someone else.  






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