We spent the afternoon, yesterday, talking to the builder and designer, God willing, for the new house. I think it is going to be an incredible process that we will enjoy greatly, but it has dawned on me that, at a minimum, it is going to take at least a year. We have to get our current house sold, move our earthly goods into short-term storage, and move to Mexico. We will have to live with Grandma Conchita if the house at least one of the floors of our house in San Pedro is not finished. Then, the foundation will be put down on the property we are in the process of purchasing. After that, we were told it would take an additional eight months to complete the house.

Lorena and I drove over to look at the property and the surrounding neighborhood. It was just amazing because we are finding more and more stuff there all the time. One of the main things is the 4½ block (~0.3 miles) walk from the house to the “Historic Granbury Square.” But we found more shops and restaurants and a University arts training center, and fun neighborhoods, and etc., and etc. The designer called us right after we got home–we told him we would annotate some images of the things we liked and did not like about houses where we previously lived. That was very fun and informative and it is just the beginning of the process.