Chuck and I spent a very quiet Easter with me watching Triduum (last 3 days of Lent Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday) services on EWTN as I have felt vulnerable to germs and coughers. I got up early for Easter Sunday Mass and spent the day quietly healing. The pneumonia coughing seems to be gone. What has settled in is maybe my allergies….. I’ll see the pulmonologist on May 8 and he will have the results of the CT scan I’ll get on May 7. So we move forward in hope that my pneumonia is gone! Now it’s just exercise to get back into shape so onto how is Susie going to get exercise…
We traveled to Lake Placid to stay with friend Glenda at hers and Milton’s "weekend cottage" on Lake Placid (actually on a Lake June canal) and she introduced us to her friend Lorrine who showed us houses all day Wednesday. Nothing was exactly to our liking (on the water and not horribly expensive) we want to buy cash as at our age, a mortgage isn’t something we want. So, we debated buying a few houses at Glenda’s that night. The next morning (Thursday) after coffee, Glenda wanted to take us into town for lunch and we drove by a For Sale by Owner that we all yelled: "Stop the car, what’s that???" It was a house with lot on a canal. House has new metal roof. Glenda says it is a rust colored red, it is beautifully landscaped, 2 car garage with 5 beautiful dogs all wanting to stick their noses through the fence and get petted and lick us to death!!!!! I called the number and woke the owner who called me back as we turned around on the street. "Go back! Go back!" I yelled to Glenda!!!! "Can we come in?" I yelled at the sleepy owner….. "Are you the owner?" "Yes and…….. I…. guess…. so", he said sleepily. So we barged in. I was sold at the front door. It was like walking into the lake house. Front door to the water. Boom. bright, clean, windows and shades up and clean. New tile floors, nice if smaller kitchen… amazing. We walked out into the yard with pups now licking us and us petting them 2 at a time and finally someone asked "how much?" And I put pen to paper and tried to add up our cash… made several mistakes and didn’t have enough… But Chuck showed me my error, meanwhile the seller knocked it down $10,000 feeling sorry for us. Chuck stuck out his hand and said, "Sold". Glenda meanwhile was exstatic! "Yes", she said when I looked at her… "What do you think?" "It’s worth it!" She and Milton shopped for houses and found their dream home and this was like that. We were then led back in and met "the wife" who has had health problems for a year that require multitudinous trips to hospitals… She is returning to family and care centers. It’s sad for them, as they really fixed the house up beautifully and have special cleaning people who "sanitize the place." Not a speck of dust or doggy smell…. Meanwhile… Miami neighbor Kathie has reminded me that I love the lake… and I do. Many of us have spent many hours out on the dock and running up to the house to turn on the oven and turn down the potatoes and get more wine or beer… and Kathie reminds me of that. But this house is on a water way with many boaters and we can dock our pontoon at a new dock with lift and go into Lake June at will. The lawn is beautiful and we have the name of our landscaper. All services will be turned over to us the date of closing without fail. We will close in 4 to 5 months. and will be gathering funds as soon as we get home… Lots of math and sweating. But for now. We are in Daytona Beach on the ocean! and Dinner with retired troopers awaits. So, God bless us!!! Ta Ta for now! Thank God!!!
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