Huybers Retirement Adventure: We Made It!!

Our New Home!

We are very pleased to announce that we have now moved into our new home on PEI!! It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the air was filled with excitement and the view from our front porch was amazing. I had only been in the house once … the day we viewed and put an offer on it. Doing the final walk through on the day of possession made me love it even more!!

As we were moving things from the motor home to the house, I saw a couple walking towards me from the house next door. It was our new neighbors, who were the previous owners of the house we just bought. They came over to welcome us into the neighborhood. Carolyn was carrying a beautiful arrangement of flowers as a welcome gift and Gordie gave us a bottle of Champagne to celebrate the move into our new home. Carolyn also gave us a telephone/address book and had entered several phone numbers into the book that she thought might be helpful to us. She entered numbers like, her phone number and cell numbers, a carpenter’s number, Marine Electric, a plumber’s number, the neighbors on the other side of us etc. I thought it was very thoughtful of them to do this for us. It is going to come in handy for sure. We are very fortunate to have such wonderful neighbors. They made us feel very welcome.

We made it through the first night and woke up to a beautiful sunrise over looking the valley and river. We have this view from every window in the house. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. It is EXACTLY how I pictured our retirement, sitting with our morning coffee over looking a beautiful water view. It is perfect!

At the moment we don’t have much in the way of furniture in our home but we are making the most of it. We have taken things from the moho so we can live in the house. We took a mattress and put it on the floor of our bedroom so we could have something to sleep on, we took dishes, pots & pans, our clothes and the food. The only thing we were missing was furniture so we got out our lounge chairs so we could have something to sit on and the small TV from the back of the moho so we had something to watch in the evening. The downstairs is completely empty … until the furniture arrives at the end of the month from BC. Then it will be crammed pack I’m sure!

We are also getting ready for the garage to be built. The men came and staked out where they are building the garage. They will be back on Monday to start digging and preparing the site for the foundation to be poured. We are hoping that the weather holds out long enough for that to happen. At the moment they are calling for rain, which is not good for pouring cement.

Another exciting thing that has happened is … Ron had his new “toys”, I mean his “necessary tools”, delivered. We now have a ride on lawn mower and a very nice snow blower! He was very excited when they showed up with them. Ron couldn’t wait to hop on with Bailey and take the lawn mower for a spin. He says he can see both himself and Bailey having lots of fun mowing the lawn in the future!

Buying a house in PEI has been a long process. I spent the last 2 years watching the housing market. When we decided to take the plunge to retire and move out here, we were faced with a lot of ups and downs not to mention the heartbreak of losing our beloved Jasper.

Then we thought we had found a house to buy, only to find we had to walk away from it due to too many red flags. We were going to leave the island but found out the vendors from the house deal that didn’t happen, wouldn’t authorize the release of our $5000.00 deposit which was being held in trust. This of course created a lot of stress for Ron and myself and also resulted in us having to file a law suit in small claims court. Of course this meant that we couldn’t leave the island until the law suit had been completed. But things happen for a reason … if we had left the island we would not have found this little piece of paradise we now call our home.

We have come a long way and have gone through a lot of emotions but in the end … it was all worth it. We are VERY happy in our new home and look forward to many happy years looking out over our beautiful view while we enjoy our retirement.