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Just Shelley outdoors

Our new home’s location

We saw a deer on the nature trail yesterday. The number one reason we bought our house is the location. The house is in excellent shape, but the kitchen is small, as are two of the bedrooms and the second bath. In fact, the second bath isn’t even the standard 5 x 8. Our neighbors […]

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Places

Old home vs New home

Now that the house purchase is a done deal (I don’t expect problems with loan), time to explore the differences between homes in Savannah, versus homes in Missouri. TL;DR it’s like they’re on different planets. Almost every home in Missouri has a basement. You get so used to it that home sizes such as 1270 […]

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Just Shelley

We came. We saw.

We came, we saw houses. Jessica Drive was an amazing lot. We loved it. But the house had a lot wrong with it—far more than we wanted to deal with. The home we’re thinking of making an offer for is linked to this posting. The owners obviously loved the home, and took exceptional care of […]

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Political

It’s 2020 and the fun is about to begin

I spent New Year’s Eve as usual: in bed before midnight with noise cancelling ear plugs stuffed in my ears and my favorite thunderstorm and fireplace sound file playing.  Only a few firework explosions last night; my neighbors must be slipping. Speaking of thunderstorms and explosion, this is the year we kick Trump, McConnell, Nunes, […]