April 28, 2005
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Eureka Springs
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Posted in the condo "Wedgewood Six" Holiday Island Arkansas 4-28-05
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Eureka Springs....
Woody has fallen in love again. He flat out said it as we fussed at each other while looking at the 80th home in the Bentonville/Bella Vista areas... He loves this place. He loves the small town-ness (Surprise Bentonville Arkansas, the home of the international corporate HQ of Wal-Mart has less that 20,000 residents)and the fact that it feels like California... "California?" I asked? "Well, the areas above LA in the 80's before it all grew up..." He's right about that. This area is on the verge of exploding. WalMart demands that every vendor have an office here in this area so people and housing and all the trappings of civilization are errupting with the benevolent forsight of the Walton clan. New roads hospitals and schools are going up as are the tracts of new homes and office buildings. Everything is masterplanned. Growth is contained to a certain level by a number of things but we are interested to see this as opposed to the unmitigated sprawl of Los Angeles and now Houston.
Woody wants to live in a golf/resort community but not exactly on the 5th tee. (We did look at a house on the 1st tee here on Holiday Island, but it was under contract ie sold... Shucky darn... I want to be on 10 acres with a barbed wire fence around me in the middle. We may have come up with a compromise in Bella Vista, a master planned community on the Missouri border. We looked at a number of homes there and found a number of compromises, not the least of which was that I will not live in a new house that looks like some crazy mans vision of an Edwardian castle complete with chocolate brown walls and decorating off the extreem makeover show... Orange Walls anyone... GAG!!!! Give me a 90s ranch with great rooms and if it has an oversized tub OK not required, Id rather have a huge steam shower and I need a dining room to park my huge dining suite...There are plenty to choose from and well in our price range too.
Our stedfast agent Joyce took us to a 1990 ranch owned by a native norweigen couple that are bound for a nursing home.This had to be a recent event for the house is spotless and well cared for. The home is unique, and while the bedrooms are generous and there is the dining room the living room is a triangle with a massive fireplace in the center of the wide "bottom" edge The kitchen is a triange as well so its like these two triangle fit together to make a rectangle. A huge screened in Lanai open off the master and dining room to a lovingly landscaped garden and woods beyond. I loved it and said yes. We submitted an offer but we wont know for a week as we found out after we made the offer that the husband who listed the house has had a stroke in the last week and the family is meeting over the weekend to talk over how things will go on from here... a trying thing for all concerened and we understand how this feels. So we dont think there is a problem unless there is a death or determination that the seller was not competent to sell. Not likely but then we are 0 for three in the offer department... I am praying again for God's will and not my own...
We are very fortunate to have landed a place to live here temporarily on Holiday Island if we need it. "Wedgewood Six" is a private home that is occasionally rented out to vacationers. There is a computer with internet access and that is how I am posting. We are staying in another condo about 1/2 a mile away. Joyce is trying to find us a place where we can be with Mak and Nani during the interim, but so far nothing. We can sneek them in here but I hate risking the good will of the people here that are so eager to help us get settled here. I also hate the idea of my baby kitties staying in boarding for so long... Its hard for them and us.
If you had told me that I would like it this well well enough to try to have a new life here I wouldnt have believed it, but funny things happen and its growing on me...it really is...
