“I’m gonna move out to the country and paint my mailbox blue”

The photo is just something pretty to look at. This is not a crafty post. It's too hot to sew. If you wanna look at something crafty, scroll down a bit. 😎

So this whole neighbor pool thing is really getting to us. We were trying to be o.k with it, thinking that it'll be mostly quiet during the week since the pool having couple works and we'll just have to tolerate it every freakin' weekend and many evenings. This didn't thrill us, but what can you do? Now, apparently they have given their friends/family/strangers permission to come over anytime even if they aren't home.

Come on people.

So now, it's can we tolerate rudeness on most days all summer? I don't think so. We are quiet people who really don't bother anyone. We spend most of our time at home and it is one of our sources of happiness. Now it is being diminished . And apparently we are very intolerant of other people's noise. I'm not proud of that and I  really was trying to get us to just let it go, but I don't think we can. 

We started looking at rural properties a few weeks ago. The thought of leaving this house saddens me, but being annoyed and having to listen to other people gets us in a bad mood and is taking away a lot of the joy we had living in our home. So, we thought we'd start looking at our options. Maybe we are just daydreaming, temporarily escaping, to let ourselves know we've got some hope if we do actually decide we need to move.

We found one property that we are gah-gah over. And it has made our heads happy for a few days to dream about it and its potential. I love, love, love, old houses so bear with me. This estate is SO huge. It is an old dairy farm with 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, 10 fireplaces!!!!, nice heart of pine floors, awesome bullseye woodwork, and on 2 acres. No neighbors close enough to hear. It is reasonably priced (that means way to cheap to not have problems) and, which of course means, it needs TONS of work. It was built in 1900 and doesn't appear to have been kept up. Did I mention that it even has a fireplace in the enormous kitchen! My heart palpitates over the thought of it. The farm house needs everything-plus more- done to it that we did to this house, and on a bigger scale.  Do we have that kind of money to renovate? NOoooooooo. Could we live in it and slowly renovate it over time? Yeeeeeees.  Do we have a job in this different state? Nooooooo. Are we crazy? Yeeeeeees. Is it haunted? probably? Do I think of every big haunted house movie everytime I look at the property? yes. And also The Money Pit. 

What will we do?  We would be better able to move states next year when my hubby finishes his master's degree, but I'm sure THE mansion would not be for sale then. Hmmmm.   And this one has so many of the things we want. It's nice to dream of a big house in the country. Hey, anyone have $100,000 burning a hole in their pocket? That'd get us some good renovations. 😎

Just sharing what's going on over here.