Life As A House
By Cafe on Jan 24, 2008 in Baby Boomer, Laurey Boyd | comments(9)
If there’s one thing most boomers probably have thought about (even if they haven’t actually done it), it’s a remodel. And why not?!? It eats only a few months … well, maybe six … or maybe a whole year … okay, sometimes more than a year out of our lives. As Laurey Boyd writes, she and her husband Bill went the whole nine yards … and still might not be close to the finish line.
Our family lives in a house built by rugged individuals over time. That is to say that Doober, Goober, and Bubba each got just so far in their jerry-rigged, sub-code sequential renderings before each one put the hill country charmer up for sale. Enter city rubes, Laurey and Bill. We spotted this idyllic beauty in a real estate magazine and were smitten. We stayed smitten for quite some time, even while knowing the place had been built by sparing every expense. Superfluous and otherwise. Such is love.
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