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Remember I mentioned how we had applied for a dream place on Friday, but didn't get it? This afternoon they phoned and offered it to us. We hadn't signed a lease for the other place yet, so Danny and I quickly exercised the opportunity to change our minds. The other was nice enough, so why is this better? It's a detached house on a quiet street (instead of a major thoroughfare). The house is bigger. All the rooms are bigger. For some reason it costs $20 less per month. Instead of a finished basement it has a third floor great room with skylights; that will be our craft room. The main floor living room has a gas fireplace. It has a sprawling deck. The backyard, living room and breakfast alcove all face the sunrise (above is a photo I took during our tour on Friday morning). The yard isn't landscaped, but contains a nice work shed equipped with numerous electrical outlets. The house is at the top of a hill instead of the bottom of one. But best of all? It backs onto Hanlon Creek Conservation Area, many hectares of woods and wetland interconnected with city parks and trails. Open the back gate, and you enter a pine plantation.
After work today, to celebrate, I started walking at Preservation Woods off Kortwright Road, and followed the trails for 45 minutes. The woodland clearings and wet meadows were full of blue-eyed grass. The air was light and sweet as nectar, rich with the soporific fragrance of pagoda dogwoods and hawthorns. In a wet part of the woods I stopped to watch two does watching me with ears as big as their heads. There were mosquitoes. The does flicked their ears and I scratched my right ankle with my left sock. Their dark eyes glinted sunlight filtering through the tall maples. Eventually I found the pine plantation, climbed the hill and, to my surprise, found the back gate of our prospective new home. The house is empty but I didn't go in, just stood looking, smiling at the future and memories to come. No one has used that gate for years. I will have to make a trail through the scratchy pine branches, across the soft needle carpet. On the way back to the car, a tiny spring bunny dashed across my path, nothing to it but startled eyes and swift haunches.
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Date: 2011-06-07 05:53 am (UTC)Sounds like you and Danny found a nice place to call your own...
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Date: 2011-06-07 09:33 am (UTC)That is totally awesome.
Having a place to live in that you really like is so important. I'm really glad you guys are getting the place you really want.
Good for you!
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