Our vintage kayaks arrived in Texas with Nicole’s moving truck and they now reside in their new home of Canyon Lake, Texas where they will be reincarnated as lake and class II river boats. Yay!!! Steve rigged a way to pull them down to the water by bike. Ain’t he cute? (Westi…your dad thinks this photo should go on picturesfromabike.com even though it is pictures OF a bike, rather than from. And yes, Ed, this IS the first bike trailer you bought us. I know you lurk even though you never comment!!!)
Since our last post we have helped Nicole get settled in Rockport, and visited with and eaten great meals prepared by Dennis and Nancy. We moved back to Canyon Lake on June 30 to meet the home inspector and deal with closing on the new house, only to find the campground full. Thankfully, we had already met hospitable new neighbors-to-be, JR and Gwen, who allowed us to camp on their 20 acre lakefront property just a block or so from “home”. Thanks to them, we not only had a place to be but we celebrated the Fourth of July with Real Texans. That means we drank lots of beer and Margaritas and ate the most awesome BBQ ribs (Texans take their BBQ VERY seriously!) Everyone was friendly and we began to feel as if relocating won’t be so lonely after all.
The holiday is over and we are back at Potter’s Creek Campground, enjoying being right on the water. Today was deliciously cool (that being a relative thing) with lovely rain showers and wind. We bought some things for the new house while Josh, the builder of our new home, worked his tail off clearing cedars, readying the house to close escrow on Wednesday.
Oh my. We are excited. Who Knew?
Are you warming up the kayaks to help Steve (Scribner) in a week or two?
We should be but we haven’t been out much. Only once then Steve tweaked his back a bit. It’s better but we wanted it to be fully healed before going out again. And we’ve been busy with house stuff too. The driveway started going in today even though we don’t close till tomorrow. We just drove by and it sort of freaked us out as it doesn’t look right at the moment. But it’s only just begun so hopefully it improves with more rock and grading. We’re excited but stressed too. Yikes!
I am jealous! But encouraged that SOMEONE is getting a house!
Evidently, the “damand” letter was sent today. So we should start rolling pretty quick. I am bound and determined to be living IN our house before you!
Defintely post more photos. I want a step-by-step tour!
More photos soon … when it is ours. It is hard to capture the inside of a small, empty house though. Josh cleared all the cedar trees (which are really icky juniper trees that everyone here calls Cedars) and the property looks very different. It will take a while for us to landscape it but his work opened it up and showed us what we have. Gave us a mountain of cedar wood chips too!
Is it a done deal? Are you home owners again?
Yep. It is done! At the last minute we discovered that, per yesterday’s survey, the deck alongside the house overhangs a setback easement and Josh, the builder, had to get a variance approved by the Neighborhood Association. We have been shopping fools ever since we left the title company. It has been quite a day!
Don’t forget about all the furniture you left behind! I think there’s a gong that needs to go on your new walls. =)
Yep. Got the spot all picked out!