Housing update

We've sold the house in Texas! *happy dance* It's a huge weight off our minds, and it didn't take nearly as long as we'd feared. It was a wonderful house, and it provided a haven for many cherished memories.
We celebrated the sale of the house the same way we celebrated buying it :-) Margaritas and texmex! Ok, maybe not actually texmex, more New Mexico/Southwest style, but extremely tasty with excellent margaritas. The place is called Cactus, a small local chain with one location nestled at the base of Jonathan's office building and three others scattered elsewhere in the Seattle area. I suspect we'll be visiting them fairly frequently.

After a full month in the apartment, we're all desparate to get back into a house. Unfortunately, we've been having a hard time finding a place--two not-small dogs make the whole thing more complicated. At one point we had a good place picked out, and our rental application was submitted and accepted. But then, as we were waiting for the lease paperwork, they came back and said "sorry, someone else put in an application after you, and they don't have dogs. Have a nice life!" That was not fun.

But now we officially have a house! Did the walkthrough yesterday and got all the details, which were really impressive. It's very tech-friendly with lots of nifty gadgets built in, I think Jonathan will have lots of fun with them.

Gotta admit, at first I was a little . . . unenthusiastic about this house. It's not in our first (or even second) choice of locations, and because we were running out of options and time, we didn't spend very long thinking about it--just moved ahead. (I think I literally spent 10 minutes walking through; we had dogs in the van that day.) So I didn't have time to fall in love with it like I had with several other houses over the course of our search, but the size and price were right, it was available and willing to accept the dogs.

Then yesterday when we did the walkthrough, I did have time to fall in love. The neighborhood is full of giant trees, several little windy roads and a couple of parks within walking distance. We're in a small culdesac, set back out of the way, and the fall colors were stunning. The house itself just got better and better the longer we were there--skylights, beautiful light and window fixtures, huge sink in the upstairs laundry room, on and on.

Now I'm really excited, ready to be out of the city, into our house, and get all our stuff back! Movers come Tuesday, and I'll try to get some good pictures ^_^