Who Wants to Buy the Tin Can?

We found a house last week and fell in love with it.  It's just the right size in just the right area.  It's in our age range and price range and it's just what we've been looking for.  We were the first people to look at it as it had just been put back on the renter market.  Interestingly enough we didn't even know it existed when we were driving around trying to get to a different neighborhood.  I took a random residential street to try and cut across Route 66, and there it was the first house in from the corner of a wide, well kept, quiet street.

This is the house we went to look at after we found the Saab and we filled out the paperwork right away.  Wynn was hopeful but I have a hard time getting my hopes up, I've always felt that if I do I am setting myself up to fail. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than devastatingly disappointed.

At any rate I tried not to think about it all weekend and at the same time promising my friends that I would tell them as soon as I knew anything.  So I worked my last 12hr shift of the week and came home this morning to sleep for a few hours before class.  At 9am Wynn called and woke me up.  I was so dead asleep that what she was saying didn't even register at first.  "We got the house."  "What?  What are you talking about?"  "We got the house."  and then I dissolved into non-words as my mouth tried to catch up with my brain.

We are moving in on the 13th of September, 12 days after my 29th birthday and my father will be pulling the Airstream out of our rental slot to a nearby storage facility on the 16th the day rent is due here.  The Airstream is officially for sale.  I know I will miss Airstreaming full time but I'm not sure when exactly I will start missing it, probably when we park her at the storage facility down the road.

The house is red brick with white trim and a working fireplace.  It has wood floors throughout and tile in the bathroom and kitchen.  It was probably built in the late 1920s and still has all of the original details.  Someone built a garage on probably in the 1940s and also added on a sun room.  It has two bedrooms a formal dining room and a large living room.  There are 1920s era French doors into the sun room where our office and my study area will be.  All of the plumbing fixtures as far as I can tell especially in the bathroom are original.

It has brand new appliances in the kitchen; gas stove, dishwasher, refrigerator, garbage disposal and even a washer and dryer.  The garage is big enough for all of the tools that I drive around with in our 4Runner and even our motorcycles will fit.

I am so excited that I have been up since Wynn called at 9am, I think I shall crash after class and sleep until my class in the morning.

The next post will have the specifics on the Airstream and the price.

I'm Doing it Again

I'm reading old houseblogs when I should be blogging here.  Today it's the Bangor Bungalow, I can't help it... we have a bungalow of our own in another city and we are looking to buy one here.  It's so easy for me to get distracted when there are so many people doing such neat things to bring their old homes back to the era in which they were built.  So I'm reading this and bookmarking that and just futzing around in general today.  I will pick up where I left off with the Oklahoma Blizzard, just bear with me I'm more in the mood to move ahead than to remember.

Full Disclosure

For the sake of full disclosure I must make one point very clear.  This will be a hybrid blog of sorts.  Once I finish recounting the two years we spent in the Airstream (The Tin Can) and the time we've spent as we wait and hope through the home buying process this will become a house blog.  I will document the wait and the stressful steps it takes to buy a home, but as it stands as I write this post we are still in the Airstream.  I am sitting the bunk with the dogs that have just come in from marking their gravel yard and until that changes and I am sitting in the living room of an old house this will still be an Airstream blog.

Once we have purchased a home this blog will transition with us.  It will turn from RV park antics and Airstream moments to choosing paint colors and pulling up carpets.  There will be photos of the progress and the happy homeowners and our pets.  I'm sure I will still referrence our time here and remember things that I have left out of previous Airstreamer posts.