First thing ...

Good morning as you can see by the picture no ego here ! now that we have all that emotional b******* from California a little bit out of the way let's talk about what I did where I went. I took off to the beautiful PNW. Here I had my son in case as we all know once we get old we should make sure we have a dependable person, people or child that we raised and gave everything to in a pinch. Personally after two rounds of cancer and heart disease I think it's good for me to have a little backup but beyond that here's the rest of this story. 

After the whole Gunsmoke trauma I spent a lot of time looking at houses from California and the amount of houses I flew up to see I could have put it down payment on a bigger one. But there was a limited amount of things I wanted smaller yard and that was a joke after what I just bought but we haven't gotten there yet. A manageable yard let's put it in perspective down in California had nearly an acre plenty animals and gardens that would make any gardener tickled pink. But I'm going to give you a couple of pictures of this little home I got.  I wanted a fireplace, patio in the front so I can watch all the neighbors going about their business. But let's be honest I'm a nosy girl, just like when I walk I like to go just at dusk because I can look in everybody's window and see how they've decorated. oh my back to the house it was just what I needed. 

Such a funny thing here up in the PNW everybody has a basement and my basement is like a little apartment it's really pretty cool not that I would ever sleep down there. My personality means I have to be in the thick of whatever's going on including my own home who's out there? What's that noise? etc etc. It took a bit of time to find this little home but it was a great choice I have a window where all my plants gather and get their sun. 

And that patio well it didn't have one but don't think I didn't build one. Up here during the winter beyond the part that he gets cold we can all handle a little cold I had a lifetime of sunshine. But I wanted to make sure that was somewhere outside where I would have the ability to sit and do my relaxing, water coloring and eventually should it happen get a dog. 

Now here's the thing with getting a dog. Now that I'm a free bird I thought about a lot of places I want to travel and having an animal is a big responsibility. And I've had children, husbands multiple and many things that I just have to take care of. This is the first time in almost 70 years that I haven't had someone to take care of anything but myself. This is not a complaint in any way because trust me this is a change that nobody would want but I'm led to the fact that I have to accept and adjust. And during that adjustment I'm really not going to be able to give the time that's needed for a puppy. 

Now as I was looking for homes and my son helped locate this one I didn't want anything bigger than what I lived in in California which was approximately 1600 square feet. But lo and behold this one is a little larger I think because there's more room upstairs to downstairs if that makes any sense. It's that damn basement. So here are a few pictures of my little place. 

And I'm incredibly excited and incredibly sad this is going to be quite an Emotional Adventure but I'm going to make sure you enjoy every minute of it and share it with you!