4 Days........................

Usually Mondays are crazy busy -always wondering if the employees are going to show up - new clients and current clients stopping by - lots of phone calls - but this Monday was different!  Not a lot was going on and since we only have our installs for the week, basically all of my work was pretty much done except for some invoices.  It was a strange feeling sitting at that desk and not really having much to do today...............

But the exciting news of the day happened at 3:00 this afternoon - we closed on a piece of property where our new house will be built!!  And I'm sure you're saying, why would you want to move? We both love our house but the property it sits on is steep with not much building room on it - and since we're retiring, Glenn wants a huge shop built, somewhere he can store all of his "stuff" and a place to work on his old car. So we started the process of looking for a home to buy - I literally spent hours looking online at homes and photos and went out 3 different times with a realtor but just couldn't find anything in our price range that was nicer than what we already have.

We then turned to looking for land - endless miles of driving and researching online for something that was 1/2way flat to build on and once again we came up with nothing!  It was pretty discouraging.  So I took the matter into my own hands!  There were 3 vacant lots right in our subdivision that were pretty flat and were beautiful 2 acre lots but they weren't for sale!  So I went to the Teller County Property Database and found their names and addresses and wrote them letters, basically asking them if they were willing to sell their land!

Believe it or not, all 3 answered me - yes, 2 were willing to sell and the 3rd one lived out of state but they were coming in Oct. and would make a decision at that time!  We figured our #1 choice would be out of the price range as our #2 choice WAS out of our price range but it wasn't that way at all - we emailed back and forth and their asking price was much lower than we expected and we quickly settled on a price, without using realtors!

And now you know the rest of the story - we closed today and it's officially ours!  We put up the sign tonight with smiles on our faces!!  (Did I mention our new property is 1/4 mile from our current house!!)

 As you can tell by the pictures, the land at the top of our parcel is pretty flat, in fact so flat that we had to change our floor plan around somewhat!!

 The trees on the acreage are beautiful - it will be such a shame to have to cut many down for the house - we'll try to replant some of the small ones but the larger ones will just have to be used for firewood.   There is also a rather unique rock formation view at the back of our property which you can see below.

 My FAVORITE part of the property - this cute rock setting surrounded by aspens!!  I have already planned to put a firepit by it with some log benches.

 Our property goes part way into the meadow below - it's really a gorgeous piece of land!

And now it's back to the house plans!