Happiness is...............

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A new puppy must mean your dog died. I'm sorry, User. I remember the lengths you were going to in order to buy it more time.

Your new house is purty. Love the porch and what I can see of your pergola. You must enjoy that big yard & not having neighbors so close. Are your kids still at home?

Thanks. Yeah our lab mix died in early 2018 I think and I swore I’d never get another dog until I changed my mind. Our son is still at home (our other house; we’re trying to get that ready to sell). He’s lived there his entire life and isn’t in a rush to move.

The vine on the porch is wisteria. Well trained now but I have some experience with the stuff getting overgrown and tearing up an overhang we had at our other place.

Our new property has the pergola, a greenhouse (for when I start my cannabis business, heh heh) and a gazebo. It had a recording studio too but we’ve already converted that to a guesthouse/office. It’s nuts in some ways to me that we are taking on a property like this at this stage but there are worse places to break hips, develop dementia and lose the ability to trim my own toenails I suppose.