A little more about our new digs:
The house is pretty dadgum big... 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, but I don't know the square footage. That doesn't really matter, because the point is, it's bigger than our old place so we are all a twitter with this turn of events. We hardly know what to do with that kind of breathing room!
The girls are sharing a bedroom (because it is that big) and now they have a dedicated play room. I KNOW!
David and I decided to use one of the extra bedrooms as an office/storage/tack room, which is really nice when it comes to me taking class online. The playroom is adjacent to this multipurpose room, with a door connecting them, so the girls can play while in 'in class' and it works out beautifully.
The last extra room has been deemed the spare bedroom, although there is no bed in it. Currently it is the spare recliner room, because that's about all you're going to be able to sleep on in it... :)
We have a very, very large dining room as well, which makes our lack of furniture all the more clear!
The living room does have a small wood stove insert (yea!) but we won't be using it until a chimney sweep comes out to ensure that we don't start a chimney fire. I'm sure once we get the first month's electricity bill for heating this big ol' house, we will be calling the chimney sweep immediately!
There are several buildings around the house, but we only have access to the garage. Two others are utilized by the family that owns the place, and the once nice barn is not safe for anything beyond housing feed and halters.
There are quite a few trees around, including pecan, walnut, chestnut and MAGNOLIA!! Hallelujah! We also have a muscadine and scuppernong vine in the back/side yard, so guess who will be busy picking up nuts and picking grapes?! ELLA GRACE, that's who!
There are two of these beauties, just waiting to thrill me with their blossoms. YUM!
To the side and rear of the house is a cow pasture that the family leases out. We routinely get serenaded by these black beauties, especially when the hay truck shows up.
From the fence in the side yard: above, to the pasture, below, to our house
We sure are hoping that we find a deal on a riding mower come springtime... That's A LOT of grass to cut with a push mower!
They were all about it, I tell you what!
4 comments:
wow. I'm in awe and very jealous. I want to come visit!! Sounds like you've got plenty of room to host.
Glad ya'll are getting settled in.
Although, UPS doesn't take too kindly to having cows are your neighbors - they charged me an arm and a leg to ship you something because you are so "rural" and it would use up fuel! I hope your package arrived by now. I think it would have been cheaper to send it to Kansas.
You'll fill up the place w/furniture in no time! Do you have horses?
Genelle, I'm sure we will fill it with furniture soon, and that's what I'm kind of afraid of! Nothing says our next place will be so big and then what will we do?! :)
We don't have horses here yet, but we are in negotiations!
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