Category: Granbury

Lorena was quite pleased to learn there is edible cactus growing on the new property. I was hoping it would be the type with the sweet tuna (cactus fruit), but it was not, so we will have to start that on our own. Fortunately, they do not take a long time to grow. We walked the property again today and, while it is not big in absolute terms, it really is about as big as we think we can handle. There is plenty of room for the house, some lawn, a garden, a small greenhouse, and an out building we want to use as a workshop.

We were supposed to have the kick-off meeting with our house designer this afternoon at 1:15, but we started getting tornado warnings pretty early in the morning so we bumped the meeting until 11. There was a little bit of a storm and a good amount of wind at the specified time, but thankfully, it passed us up.

The meeting was great. We had it at the designers house. He is just a little older than me and he and his wife have very similar ideas about what they want their house to be as Lorena and I. Of course, it is nice to think about all the great things that are possible and that is fun, but the disconnect between what one can afford and what is possible is often very wide. Fortunately, Lorena and I have done this enough times that we know where we want to spend a little more money and, mostly, where it is OK to skimp. We liked the designer a lot and are looking forward to working with him.

The closing for the property where we want to build a house in closer to town (within walking distance) is on Friday this week. The preliminary meeting with the house designer is tomorrow and, hopefully, our current house will go on the market before the end of next week. With all this happening so fast, Lorena was quite pleased that she could harvest this spectacular Texas sunflower to enjoy while we start to prepare the house for showing and, also hopefully, a move. Houses in this area are currently staying on the market for 2-3 months, but the traditional school year ends mid-May and the buying season kicks in because people want to get moved in time to enroll their kids properly into their new schools, so we have lots of hope that the house will sell within that 2-3 month time frame. We are doing a little bit of a balancing act because the house in Mexico where we want to live while the new house is being built is not quite ready for us.