2011 April 16 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

April 16, 2011 · by JudyL

Even if we buy a house that has room for the chickens (which, by the way, you all seem to like #3 best), we won’t bring the chickens. It would be just too hard to get them there. Once our furniture leaves here, it will be 3 or 4 days before it arrives/gets unloaded at the new location. We’ll be in hotels along the way. The movers won’t move the chickens or the coop and moving them in the back of Vince’s pickup with the cover on it would be miserable for them in July or August, which is probably when we’ll actually be moving our stuff. It’s about a 10 hour drive from here and even if we were going straight from here to there, I think it would be cruel for them in the back of a hot truck. Besides, Vince is taking his truck soon and will keep it there and not be bringing it back and forth. No way will 8 chickens ride in the Honda or the Highlander. No way!

And, between now and the time we move, I’ll be going back and forth for a week at a time fairly often and it wouldn’t be good to impose on someone here to have to keep taking care of them while I’m away so it will be easier for them to go to their new home before I start going back and forth to Texas.

We’re giving them to someone who will take very good care of them, though I will miss them and will be very sad to say goodbye, it really is the best way to handle the situation.

House #3

April 16, 2011 · by JudyL

Yep, there is a House #3 but this one really should have been House #1 because it’s the first one I saw that I liked. Some of you may remember that back in early March, I had the wrong link for the drop stitch scarf and it went to this house. Our move wasn’t a done deal at that point but we were looking at houses. I sent the link to this house to Vince and then accidentally inserted it into my blog post. Embarrassing!

Vince wasn’t so thrilled with the house because he needs to be within 15 minutes of his work and if you get the directions to this house on the computer, it gives you the wrong directions and puts this house a good bit farther away than it really is. Vince is going to see the house next time he’s in TX.

This house has 15 acres but another 60 acres are available. It has fruit and nut trees. It has a gas stove. The house is a bit small for us but it has no garage so we’re thinking we can add a garage with a sewing room upstairs, with a bath, kitchenette type room and maybe even add a little guest house type room on the ground floor part of the garage. This could be my first choice if it all looks as good in real life as it does in the pictures. We love the trees. I love the metal roof. It has a gas stove. It has new air conditioners and a new water heater. I’m not real crazy about the tile in the kitchen but I can live with it. As far as the square feet, this would be the smallest house we’ve had in years but with an additional sewing room that’s about 20 x 30, this house would be perfect!

While in Louisiana, I visited two quilters who had their sewing rooms outside their home in a separate building (but attached to the house by a walkway). I came away thinking I’d actually enjoy having my sewing room not inside the house. So, if it happens that it’s outside, I’ll be fine and if it ends up being part of the inside of the house, I’ll be fine with that too. Just give me a gas stove and nothing else matters! Remind me that I said that!