Season 2017 in Jensen

It has been far too long since I've blogged.  The end result is usually more trouble than it's worth!  Since Facebook, I don't find it's as important to journal here as I once did.  However, I have a FB friend that reads this and she mentioned awhile back I hadn't blogged for some time!  It is good to be able to use more words ! here....be more wordy??  I know only those that really are interested will stop by and read.  I wouldn't want to fill up newsfeed with paragraphs of personal information that only a handful need to read:)  Saying all that, I do want to update our last season in south Florida!

When we first checked out Holiday Out, we rented a week.  Then we rented a month....then we purchased!  We found the first place, unit 476, not by chance.  It was divine, we felt for sure.  The price was right, the work needed to update could be done by Clyde (except pavers & tree removal).  The neighbors....the best people and will call them friends from now on.  The downside, it was one bedroom and one bath.  So, in our free time (ha) we kept looking for a two bedroom or at least we wanted a two bath.  

In March of this year, we found a 2 bedroom/2 bath!!!  Again, we had all but given up finding one, and felt "led" truly to go check out #99.  We had put ours up for sale (#476) and it sold in a few days.  So, we were riding around in the golf cart looking to rent!  This house (#99) was one we had looked through in January at an open house.  It was decked out, the previous owners spared no expense.  Which made it over our budget.  So, we let it go (never really considered it) until we did!  One Sat. night in Feb., we were eating with our surprise visitors, Becky & Austin.  We were at Cobb's Landing and three ladies from our church asked us about our search.  One sweet lady said "go look at #99 and make an offer".  We laughed and told her, in so many words, that we had seen it but might not work out for us. On Sunday, after church, we saw the same lady out at the same restaurant we were eating (our fave Mulligans), and she said "go look at that house and make an offer"....and we LOL.  I told Clyde, after seeing her that afternoon at the park and she said the same....we need to go see #99 again.  

We called the realtor (who also was the owners daughter) and set up an appt.  Walked through again (with me telling her "we may be wasting your time") and made an offer.  After a little counter back & forth, we came to a deal.  It is beyond our hope & dreams.  Not large at all.....very few in this park are.  Most are on the same size lots, which are not large.  But it has all the amenities we could ask.  Every drawer I opened I was more surprised with it's contents.  It came fully furnished, as the one we left did.

We brought with us two leather recliners and took the nice leather one in our new house to replace them.  We had just purchased a new chair and sofa and left them as well.  Our bedrooms/bedding and baths are super nice.  We hope to have many many (God willing) years there.  If not, we already loved the weeks we have spent there!  Also, we hope our children will enjoy spending time there as well.  Here are a few pics:

Well, that shows the inside except for the first bedroom and baths but they are just as nice as the rest.  I am not trying to boast, but be honest.  These people built it/decorated it for the two of them to live in for years.  However, they only had two years there, which I truly was sad for them.  I didn't know them, just "of" them, but teared up each time we stopped by.  They invited us to a neighbor "sunset" party to meet our new neighbors.  They were so sweet to work with.  Just lovely people.  They were not well and needed to go back home.  I brought my flower pots to deck out the outside, and a couple of my lounge chairs.  Their outside furniture is heavy and super nice.  We already have enjoyed the front porch, which looks (from a distance) at the marina.  I like watching the boats being loaded in the morning and taking off for the day.  

We do miss our utility (extra) room in our #476.  We were able to pull in our bikes each night, put our outdoor furniture in easily.  All one floor, no steps to take furniture up.  All in all, we were very happy and pleased there, but will love the extra space in #99.  We feel very blessed.  There were a few signs that this was the right move for us, I won't take the time for you to read here.  If you stopped by and got this far, you are a good friend!