Wednesday October 1 2008

Stormy Sunset

Another month gone. What happened to summer? Here we are already getting closer and closer to winter. Big beautiful thunderclouds are building over the mountains. There have been rumors of snow coming on Sunday - the hunters will like that. But today is beautiful again. We had about 10 raindrops on the windows this afternoon. The dogs are tired out too, getting to go somewhere almost every day. Sprawled out in the yard sleeping in the sun.

Betty bustled around this morning, leaving her room all clean and made up, getting her belongings all gathered up and packed into the van. She left about 10 a.m. and had made a reservation for tonight at her favorite motel in Nephi, about halfway home to Mesquite. That way she only needs to drive about 5 hours a day. She'll get home about noon tomorrow and need to unload (remember all the old wood and stuff) and return the rental van. She was going to stop by Bonnie's on the way out to photograph her bay window. I suppose they will have lots to discuss about their mutual friend me.

Anyway Betty is thinking of having a bay window put in over her kitchen sink where she spends a lot of time watching the birds and wildlife at the feeders in her yard. Except that the window is too high on the wall to get a good view from the second level there where the kitchen is down to the yard below. (The lower level is a full basement but on a hill so..... I forget what you call that when the house is built in a hill and you come in at ground level on the different stories.) Betty is going to call me this afternoon when she gets to the motel.

It's going to be a quiet day for me here, as the last many days have been busy ones. Two days away in a row always have tired me out. I napped yesterday and today for many hours - I was just worn out. I might make some lists - what I want to take to the new house, other things to be done, things we need to buy - furniture or appliances etc. -and spend some time looking at the paperwork of the houses to choose which ones to show to Joe. I'll try to take a few more pictures to show you when we go do that.

But here are the internet links to look at the houses we considered, in case you are curious enough to take a look. They all look the same but each one should open onto a different page. We chose places close in town, with one story, mostly no stairs, clean not needing remodeling, newer, not too big, on and on.

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Some favorites not in order:

2 South Fork Trail - 2 acres

86 Orcutt Dr. - 1.36 acres (has stairs and full basement; view )

17 Arrowhead - 2 acres

865 Grace Lane - new modular

60 Riverbend - new modular, very small lot.

I talked to Lois this morning because they used to live in one of the houses I'm most interested in. The only negative she mentioned was that the guy who built the garage put the roof on so the snow slides off into the the driveway ..... can you imagine?? Otherwise she loved the house. She had painted a sky mural on the high ceiling above the kitchen which is still there and it's charming. But each place has some negatives, we're just going to have to see what works best for us. For instance, the roads to the very nice one on Orcutt Hill may not be the best in winter - kind of far off the good county road - plowing may be an issue; stairs to the basement where the washer and dryer are - they have to be replumbed and moved upstairs. Most of the others need to be fenced and some have covenants that describe how you must landscape etc. Of course, there will be time for landscaping next summer. But because of the dogs, we need to fence immediately. Those are drawbacks to brand new places, where lived-in ones need other kinds of repair or cleaning. Each house is very much different from the others except for two similar modulars in the same new area.

A few things that came to my attention - perhaps hadn't considered before - is that Pinedale IS a very nice town overall. I've always liked it very much, but hadn't given that much thought. Some of the older sections can be a little dreary, but I'm more impressed overall than before. The other thing that really stands out is how much the town is growing, and that the new "subdivisions" or "developments" are quite nice - parks and green spaces and bike paths. If good views aren't right in your face, they aren't far away. Pluses and minuses to everything, so we're going to have to be flexible. I sure knew and have often mentioned how the whole area around town is developing rapidly, but the town is also.

I should be back to having some good days - I was sorry that my chemo recovery days were during the time that Betty was here. I wasn't the best of company much of the time. Now I hope to have the ambition to paint a little. Joe's having a little trouble with his hearing or the hearing aids. He will go see the audiology person soon to check it out. And has an eye checkup this week as well. He's watching all the financial and political news. That's about all I know today. So far.

At 5:30 p.m. during an edit of the blog,..... It's Raining!