Living in our home

About once a week (for the last SEVEN months) I've thought to myself "I need to post on our blog."  There has been so much activity and change around the house since the last time I published a post.  For most of the regular followers, you've already been to our home for a visit.  So anything I would publish now would be old news.

I had the best of intentions and we all know the adage about the road to hell ...

So without any further delay, I'll state the obvious.  Shortly after the last post Brenda and I moved into our home.  We filled the garage with our boat, Sea Doo, and boxes from our storage unit.  We moved what little furniture we had kept from our Flower Mound house in and it helped quell the echos somewhat.

Slowly we unpacked and put away those items we wanted to keep - pictures, books, and special items given us over the years.  We don't want to store junk we never plan to use, so Brenda has been wonderful at helping me throw away stuff!  I'm much more of a pack rat than her.

We've had numerous visits from family and friends, and we look forward to many more years of visitors.  In fact, we built the house with that in mind - making our home a destination for our loved ones to come and share time with us.  So far, it's working.

We've had friends from nearby - Flower Mound and Plano - as well as family from all across the country (and Canada) - California to Florida and points in between - visit.  And our children and their families come often.  Each time is another opportunity to fire up the Big Green Egg and sear some animal flesh, jump in the lake (literally), and best of all - make memories.

Our landscaper completed most of the work we have planned for the yard.  We brought in more soil to level the back yard, covered the entire acre with sod, surrounded the house with flowering shrubs and trees, and added a stone pathway from the back porch down to the dock.  I installed low voltage lighting which adds to the appearance each evening.

We sold our motor coach to a very nice couple who have exciting plans to use it a lot this summer.  We would consider getting another one sometime in the future, but for now the proceeds from the sale were needed to complete projects around the house - landscaping, outdoor furniture, etc.  Besides, after we had lived in it for a year and a half the thought of leaving our new master bedroom suite and sleeping in a 300 square foot motor coach lost its appeal.

Here are just a couple of photos from around the place:

The low voltage LED landscaping lights I added

Taken from on the boat. (The lake is about 7 feet low.)