House Hunting is Hard Work!

The last few days we have been looking for a house to buy.  We have been all over the island looking for properties that fit our criteria … water views for me … and a big garage/workshop for Ron.

We have looked at a new rancher, only 1 year old, that sits on the water front and has beautiful views.  It has 3 large bedrooms, an upstairs loft/sitting room, kitchen is really nice with all new stainless steel appliances and it has a garage/workshop that Ron can work with.  The only things we don’t like are: the back deck is a little small, but we could enlarge that later and they put the washer and dryer in the downstairs bathroom.  I guess with the house being only 1700 sq. ft. they had to put it somewhere.  The owner wants (in my opinion) a little too much for it, but it is in the running … so to speak.

We also looked at another house just up from the rancher.  It was a larger house with a HUGE and I mean HUGE garage/workshop for Ron.  Guess which house he wants now?!  The rest of the house was just ok for me, but Ron really liked the character of the house.  It was nestled in amongst birch trees, and the outside of the house looked like a log cabin … just not my style.

We also looked at an older house … well it was 100 years plus.  There were 3 rooms in the house that were nice and I could live with, but the rest of it was pretty scary!  The floors were so warped that it felt that you were drunk just walking from the hallway into the next room.  The stairs were very narrow and also warped.  I didn’t feel safe walking up and down the stairs at all.  The basement … well … the basement was a Mike Holmes nightmare!!  We scratched that one off our list!!

So you see we are keeping our options open.  We look at new homes to older homes in search of finding that elusive “perfect home”.

After looking at the log cabin home this morning, we decided to take a break from house hunting, (well sort of … our eyes are always open for “For Sale” signs) and took the dogs to the beach.  Jasper and Bailey loved it.  We started to take them right onto the beach but then quickly thought that it might be better if we walked them along the shore … but on the grass.  The sand here in PEI is red and walking WHITE dogs on a RED beach didn’t seem like it was the smart thing to do.  They would have come out looking like “pink maltese”!  They were just as happy to walk along the grassy shore.

It was another beautiful day in PEI.  Temperature is 29c with a light breeze.  Ron is sitting in his lounge chair, drink in hand, over looking the water.  Since that is how I envisioned my retirement … I think I’ll join him!