April 21, 2005
The Best Laid Plans
Red Ginger Wailoa State Park
I may be the victim of too much planning.
We got ahead of ourselves and messed up our househunting plans by buying only the 25th house we saw when we planned to see 300 at least. We also violated our agreement that this was to be a place where we could retire... The home has two floors and the "living" rooms kitchen living and Master bedroom are upstairs and two smaller bedrooms full bath and laundry (laundry is not living...) are down. When we are old and decrepit we are not going to want this place and the flight of stairs...
Woody points to the view of
Lake Conroe and says "For that I will climb stairs." OK as long as he can remember that we will be ok. Insted of a promise, I have a plan to make the downstairs functional in case of illness injury or, in my case, inability to avoid disasters... (for those of you that asked, my leg has healed from the sprains and strains of the fall on the day we departed Hilo. The nasty cuts are taking longer but I think Will be fine... scars perhaps but this will remind me of the true cost of paradise.)I am adding on a screened room for the kitties and will put a "summer" kitchen on one end, complete with grill and fridge. The slab is already poured and I am sure it wont be an issue as we have a rather large treed back yard.
I had a panic attack about the stairs today but I can say that this was the only thing wrong with the place and it had so many other things going for it. Woody talked me out of putting my foot down and backing out of the deal. I dont think I can get my big furniture up those stairs but we shall see when the time comes. He also said that we can still look at Florida and other options for a retirement venue in the mean time enjoy this... I know my legs will get stronger...anyone know how many calories you burn climbing staris?
Then he took me to see the baby kitties, who are doing well and want to come home to somewhere. I know THEY will love running up and down the staircase. Maybe they can learn to haul down the laundry and bring up the groceries LOL. Seriously. We were greeted with much purring and Nani who has been holed up in the linen closet also located in their room came out for a bit. Both cats are down in weight but they ate in our presence not ravenously as though they are not beeing fed, but just they dont have the food they like. They are drinking a lot of water to which has to be good for them.
We leave for Arkansas on Saturday. We dont need to go but we have paid for the trip so this is a bit of vacation for us. I do think that we will see a lot of pretty places but they dont have the jobs we need. Woody is working on getting his resume stuff together and I have been trying to think about what it is that I want to do. Again its more and more of trusting God to show me His way here and not trying to figure it all out for myself...
