New Beginnings

My husband and I went to Philadelphia to look for a new home. After we visited Pittsburgh, we knew that area of Pennsylvania wasn't going to work for us so we began the process anew. Decades ago I went to college at Bryn Mawr and after that my husband and I lived in South Jersey while he was stationed on the destroyer at the Naval Shipyard and subsequently while he attended Wharton Graduate School. Since we were more familiar with the area it felt different even though our life circumstances are changed now.

Anyway we made an offer that was accepted on a house in Wallingford, out on the southwest side of the Philadelphia area. The house was built in 1737 which could be a problem in and of itself, but the current owner has rewired the entire house (including even more circuit breakers than we normally use because she operated two electric kilns), replumbed the entire house, put in all new bathrooms with heated floors, and a very lovely kitchen with a Viking range and a Carrera marble surround. She also had all of the exterior stonework repointed and central air installed. So while the house is seriously old, it is also seriously new. It has a copper roof, a spring house with a large upstairs area for whatever, a small pond and waterfall, and just short of 3/4 of an acre of grounds. The house itself is smaller than our current one but the area above the spring house section makes it just about the same size.

We won't close until later in the spring which gives us time to get our current house on the market and perhaps even sold since the market is pretty hot where we live.

Then it will be off to a whole new adventure.

Trump showed his true colors both in attitude and language. The man is so crass and vulgar that nothing he does surprises anymore.