Friday afternoon
Posted on | October 28, 2005 | 10 Comments
We’re in the midst of househunting—not for this year, but for next spring. A place with land—pastures, wooded areas, perhaps a stream. We moved north to find this—and today we spent a couple hours driving around and then walking out along trails onto land that we tried to imagine as ours someday.
It’s a bizarre process—trying to imagine something that doesn’t yet exist. You have to be half lunatic, half dreamer to survive it. Yet it also fills me with a giddy breathlessness as I imagine where my garden might go. Where a swing might hang from a tall maple for Bean, where we might sit on the porch in the morning with coffee watching wild turkies or racoons raid the seed below the bird feeder.
With each place we visit, the home I imagine is becoming slightly less a figment of my imagination and slightly more tangible. Click on the photo above to view a few of the sights from our rambles today.
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October 29th, 2005 @ 12:40 am
have you been to http://bluepoppy.omworks.com? I’ve loved reading her site over the past few months, about how she and her husband had 82 acres of beautiful land in NH and the process they went through building the house of their dreams. Can’t wait to switch to my voyeur mode and follow along as you and DH and Bean find a beautiful place of your own!
October 29th, 2005 @ 1:19 am
I feel so much like you, we too, would like to buy for next spring. but no woods, no stream, no yard and no porch. how lovely it must be to picture the house of your dreams like that…
October 29th, 2005 @ 5:39 am
Just sitting here smiling after going on that walk in the woods with you. It’s the one thing I really miss about having built a new house in a new development: no grown trees for treehouses or swings.
October 29th, 2005 @ 9:13 am
Bean looks SO MUCH like his dad!
I love dreaming. How wonderful it is to dream together with your husband – and the closeness it brings.
October 29th, 2005 @ 11:03 am
There’s so much power in visualization…keep imagining exactly what you want…you might just draw it to you…
October 29th, 2005 @ 12:58 pm
I like that picture. Big dreams high hope we must all keep them and hopefully Marilyn will be right.
October 29th, 2005 @ 8:23 pm
I saw all of your new photos over on flickr, they are quite lovely! I still don’t know where you live but wow it looks like my kind of place.
October 29th, 2005 @ 9:04 pm
great photos! best of luck to you in finding the house of your dreams!
October 30th, 2005 @ 9:01 pm
ahhhh…dreaming…
I viewed your pics and they’re amazing! Wow!
October 31st, 2005 @ 9:34 am
I never believed people when they told me that when I found the right home, I’d just “know”. But it was true. Only one home spoke to me and assaulted me with visions of toddlers running on the hardwood floors and spend the nights parties in the playroom and Thanksgiving dinners in the dining room. And now we live there.
Good luck!