The Morning After

Well, today we are no longer "West Enders" and are about to move on. It is amazing that we sold the beach house in a matter of days. I cannot thank Peter at Century 21 Bayreef for his expert pricing and hard work marketing our home. I cannot believe we sold it while we were at closing for the lake house! Goodbye for now~ Linda

Every Good Blog Must Come to an End

It's been a while since my last post. Things have been busy around the Farm and the Beach House. At this point, I need to bring my beach neighbor, Jane into this story. Jane moved a house that was on the verge of going into the ocean some several years ago. She landed next to our house and is a happy and fun neighbor to have. Sometime after the storm, we were talking "porch to porch" [we are in close proximity to neighbors] and I mentioned to Jane that after 30 years, I was ready to move from salt water to fresh via a lake house. To make a long story shorter, Jane told me that she and Howard had a lake house north of Cleveland. I asked a few more questions and the seed was planted. Some months of pestering Allen later, we took a drive there and looked around. It is beautiful. A small 100 acre spring fed private lake with lots of trees and rolling hills was all that I needed to see. Well, that and we found Jane in her front yard. We went down to her waterfront and then Allen was convinced, too! In the past year, we looked at the few homes that were for sale and then it happened....a house came up for sale on almost an acre of waterfront that beckoned us to buy. So, this house is now ours and the end of this blog is at hand. We contacted Peter at Century 21 Real Estate who took one look at our beach house and promptly sold it! Literally. We close on this sale tomorrow and then move on to the renovation of the lake house. It is sad to leave Galveston after 30 some years and I doubt that my sis will ever forgive us! We had some great times here but it is time to move on with another adventure. I'll be starting that blog soon and will post the link here.