Here’s the last of my posts about the places I’ve called home over the years. If you’ve missed any of the previous ones and would like to read them, here’s the list:

• I Must Be Crazy
• The Early Years
• My Bachelorette Pad
• Into the Mountains
• Living With the Parents the Second Time Around
• Movin’ on Up… Sort of
• Another Dump
• A Home of Our Own… Sorta

Once we found out we could no longer keep our mobile home on the rented lot we had, we started looking at our options. I put it in the paper right away, but I also put an ad in there looking for lots for rent. We didn’t have the money to have it moved, but we were just sort of hoping for a miracle.

The miracle of being able to move it didn’t happen, but another one did. We found a fixer-upper house for sale, and to make a really long story short, we got it. And now we’re calling it home.

There’s plenty to find fault with here, for sure. It could stand to be completely replumbed, the floors in some rooms need to be redone, the dishwasher that I was so glad to see turned out to be broken, and we will need to put in another heat source before winter rolls back around. Oh yeah, and did I mention that we have a slight snake problem? (Hubby fixed the place where that one got in, so I hope we won’t see any more!) And yet I’m still quite happy here.

My favorite thing about this place is that it’s so peaceful. I don’t mind having neighbors somewhat close by if they’re good ones, but living as close as we did to our landlady at the old place was hellish. When she wasn’t being hateful to us, she was staring as we walked from the driveway to the house, and when she couldn’t find anything to do to try and get under our skin, she was bickering very loudly with her family. Compared to that, having not another house in sight is pure bliss.

There is still some of our stuff that I need to find a permanent place for, especially in my office. But this place is already feeling very much like home. I hope there comes a time when we will be doing well enough that we can sell this place and buy a newer and larger one, but I think I’ll be content where I’m at until that time comes.