Day Lillies

The yard in my new house is full of spent daylily's.  I have no idea if I am supposed to cut off the dead stalks.  Or wait until Fall.  There are two many to dig up.   I am sure they have not been divided in at least two years because no one has lived here for two years.  (I think)  The husband of this house was the gardener.  His wife did not garden.  I can feel his ghost here.  Because he was elderly and has passed on. We are having the well drilled deeper as it is going dry or has become what they call,  a low yield well. And to do that they will have to cut down the river birch at the corner of the garage.  They can't get their drilling rig in here with the tree in the way.  Makes me sad. It is a beautiful river birch.  My husband does not even seem to care.  He said, Its just a river birch.  They aren't that good a tree, are they?  Sad.  All tree's are good.  Tiny seems a bit better than he was in Florida. But he gets more itching when it gets hot. Luckily summer seems to be over up here.  We have not had to run air conditioning in days and days.  Here are my dead day lilys.

Exhaustion is my middle name.

So, it is Wednesday and we have been in our new home one week now.  And for furniture we have three camping chairs, two lawn patio chairs (we just bought those at Lowes) one twin bed, and a futon with double mattress.  we have a new fridge, new stove, new dishwasher, and new microwave.  Our well is sometimes a bit wonky. But we think it is all the filters the previous owner put on it.  Once we get a well man out to explain it, I think we will find the filters need changing. She also has a water softener on it which I hate.  I already have hummingbirds.  I bought a bluebird house but we have not put it up yet.  A contractor fixed the pilings or posts on the back deck so that is done. Then he tore out the trim on the dining room alcove and tomorrow he will bring sheetrock and we will have another bedroom instead of this hideous brick colored formal dining room.  The kitchen is as big as our living room and can fit a full size table with chairs.  The mountains change by the hour.  Sometimes at night they are pink, like this.  We will have the main bedroom carpet ripped out and replaced with wood floors like the rest of the  house by the contractor and he will redo the kitchen wood floors.  Our sun room is tile.  It really is a beautiful little cottage in the mountains.  We met the owner at the closing.  It was her husband a retired doctor who made the gardens full of everything you can imagine. Phlox, hydrangea, dogwood, camellia's, so many I can't even remember. Some I don't even know their names or what they are. He passed away.  His wife almost went bankrupt trying to pay for her medical treatments for breast cancer. She is getting chemo right now.  I wonder about a country where you go bankrupt trying to pay to save your life.  So, Tiny is getting used to wooden floors and sliding.  Our contractor has a female dachshund short hair, dapple.  I would love a girl for Tiny.  Sorry I have been absent. Been weeding, cleaning, weeding, cleaning, weeding.  Well, you get the pictures.  Work is good for the soul.

We got the house in Franklin North Carolina

Our closing will be July 26th.  I am researching what chickens to raise.  And hoping the farmer behind me might have some advice or the neighbor next door who seems to have some sort of animal pen in his backyard.  I have no idea how we are going to move after living in this house in Florida for 25 years.  We have both our houses here up for sale with a real estate agent.  My mother's house behind me and ours.  We decided it would be too hard to maintain two homes.  But if our's does not sell, for a while we will be able to have a winter home and a summer home.
The new house has been inspected and so far no big problems have arose.  Everything can be fixed for under
1,000 dollars. We need to rip out the carpet in master bedroom because the rest of the house is all hard wood floors.  I don't know why people want to put carpeting in their bedrooms.  I don't find it that much warmer.  And our little dachshund has rubbed and scratched off most of his fur in the two to three weeks we have been back home in Florida.  Our Vet gave me some allergy medicine (I refuse to put him on steroids)  It is either something in our environment, outdoors or indoors. Because his fur up in North Carolina grew in thick and beautiful. We were living up there for two months and he never looked healthier. I feel bad that I have brought him back and it has made him sick.  I am not sure I posted the video of our new home.  They said the owner will probably not come to the closing and that in fact many closings are now down long distance through email. I never heard of such a thing.  We have appliances to buy and living room furniture.  I cannot wait to start weeding her gardens.

Video on utube of our new home.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBvHTfIp1I

Made an offer on a house in Franklin

Well, it's not a farmhouse, but it has two acres and is unrestricted.  Lots of garden space, mountain views. And the house and yard are beautiful. And the owner is battling cancer and is just trying to clear her two loans against the house.  Sad.  I hope we can buy it.  The views are so beautiful.  Its up in the mountains in Franklin North Carolina.

Heading for Franklin North Carolina

In the morning we are heading to Franklin North Carolina to camp for a few days to a week and look around with a real estate agent.  It is higher up in Franklin and about 5 degree's cooler.  We did write a back up offer on the old farmhouse. And we will wait and see if that sale goes through.  Maybe the buyers needed time to get enough money.  Maybe they will back out of the deal.  If so, then our bid will go right in behind theirs.  The two story farmhouse still owns my heart.  I got my hair cut the other day. I don't really know what is going on, maybe my thyroid is failing. But I can't seem to gain weight and my hair is getting very dry.  I get my thyroid checked again in October.  I hope we can find a farmhouse this trip.  I am so tired of looking.  It has been so hot here.  I think they broke records.  I saw some lightening bugs tonight.  My little dog was curious because we no longer have them in Florida.  Well, this is all the news.  Onward to Franklin.  Later. 

Murphy North Carolina

Well, I was going to post that we were putting an offer on the old farmhouse that I love. But someone else already has it under contract.  Now I am heart broken.  I will post photos of it but my heart is not in it. The realtor said we can write up a backup offer in case they back out of it.  They have a contingency that they have a long time to back out of it if they want.  But still I feel like it is gone.  I can even write how sad my heart is. We should have made an offer on it right at the beginning.  I will post more when I feel better.

Looking for the Farmhouse

We've been in Murphy North Carolina now for about two weeks now searching for a farmhouse with about 3 to 5 acres or more.  We've seen the right land, with the wrong house, the right house with the wrong land.  And then we saw the one that said, "bring your own tools".  The land was gorgeous but the farmhouse was crumbling.  They should have said, bring your own bulldozer.  I still love the farmhouse I loved on the internet.  We will make a dream offer. If he does not accept it then we move on.  The house inside is ready to move in. But the outside needs new roof, paint, some new siding.  And some sort of heat for upstairs.  It is still my favorite of all the places we have seen.  There was one five acre place with a pond but it had restrictions and a home owners association.  I've been in those. Don't want to live with restrictions again.  Tomorrow we have one to look at up in Copper Hill which is almost on the Tenn. border. That would make a long drive to get groceries.  I am not leaving until we get a closing.  Tired of waiting.  Life is short.  More short than we know.  The dog is doing so well on the trip.  All his fur is grown back and hardly no licking or scratching which makes me think more and more he was allergic to our carpeting at home. So we are sticking to our rule of all hardwood floors. Here is the 1925 farmhouse.  Pray that he accepts Ralphs offer. I dream of living here.  I love this house. It has such warm.  There was much love here once.