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Birdhill · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:34 pm Post subject: Thanks Jacie

I think we are about the same age, i just look older because it hard on me living with the devil's sister for all these years. She is sitting over here quilting a really ugly quilt that one of the kids will get for Christmas. She been smiling at me ever since lunch so I have to go dig some garlic.
Actually, she quilts really good, she belongs to a club here in Coldspring and they meet twice a month to mainly eat and gossip and talk about what wonderful husbands they have. I really love her, she is the only thing I ever invested in that really grew. If the stock market don't stop dropping, I will be the new greeter at the local WalMart.

I need to order one of those eggs for her for Christmas, she slobbered all over the computer looking at them. I am building her a new kitchen island and have already got her a set of China with a neat rooster pattern. (that is set number

She has 44' of kitchen counter top already, 18 kitchen drawers, a pantry, two cook tops (10 burners) and two convection ovens and a regular oven and there is this pressing need to have more drawers and counter top. Our house is a restore 1932 farm house plus two more bedrooms and a huge bath. I needed places to hide.

should look like this

J'sCochins · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject:

Oh Wow!! That cabinet is beautiful. And your house sounds wonderful.

I don't mind telling my age. It's 63 and it's better that the alternative!!

But now my hubby is much much older than me. (65) Laughing

I would love to see your restored house. Being an antiquer I love stuff like that!!

Our riverhouse is only 2 years old but lots of old stuff in it (besides us)
Here's our riverhouse

http://www.carebearjake.com/rh/HOUSE.HTML

We went from 3500 sq ft to right at 2000. We wanted to play and work outside more that inside. Like with the chickens which I am having sooo much fun with now!!

Get some more pictures of your place. I'm sure we would all love to see all of it. And your lovely lady also. She has to be a sweet person and I admire anybody who has the patience to quilt!

And let me know about the egg. I'll give you a good deal.

Jacie

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judymae · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

I absolutely love your house Jacie!!! It is beautiful!

Birdhill we have a close friend that lives in Whitehouse! Small world!
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J'sCochins · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

Hi JudyMae. Thank you so much.

You know it's strange and I don't mean this as bragging but over the years we have been blessed to have some beautiful big homes. That's due to God's Blessings and my hubby's hard work, but our goal was to do away with a lot and go into retirement without a mortgage. So we started a little early. Took a couple of years to find just the right property and did our thing in a very small town in a beautiful spot of Arizona.

And I have never been more at peace than I am on this little 1+ acre!!!!

The only thing that will make it perfect is when Ty finally retires in 13 months and will be here with me full time and not just for long weekends!!! We still have a small house in Phoenix where he stays when working and I have to force myself to go down every other week and take care of it but I hate! going back to Phoenix.

The other thing that would make it even more perfect is if Henry the Roo and Ty the hubby would ever get along but I don't think that's ever going to happen!
Laughing

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Birdhill · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: Retirement

Jacie I love your place, it is beautiful and peaceful. You have great taste in putting things together. Maybe you could come help us.

Our place, Birdhill, is just comfortable, not elegant or anything to brag about but it is ours. We have not had a mortage since the 80's. We spent way to much money on restoration and additions but it is almost maintenance free. We bought it from an older couple in 1995. We have just under 5 acres and no close neigbors. The kids named it Birdhill because I have 40+ birdhouses scattered around. Spring is an exciting time around here.

Our Houston home was much bigger and nicer and we had all the rooms you never use, foramal dining room, sitting room and they were great for collecting dust. I maintained a swimming pool that nobody used for years after the kids grew up. Who needs it, retirement is about being comfortable. As long as it is clean and keep us dry, warm or cool, it just fine. My days of trying to make a good impression are over, my chicken people don't care if I comb my few hairs or shave as long as they get some corn. By the way Jacie, I am 62 1/2, that looks funny only kids say the 1/2.

I graduated from Whitehouse in 1963, the population was 610. There was 18 folks in my class and most of us had been together for the whole 12 years. I wish my grand kids could experience the America I grew up in and loved, a violent crime was going skinny dipping in the lake. My first car was a 1957 Studebaker which fit perfectly on the railroad tracks if you let some of the air out of the tires, it was like riding on a cloud. Dang it, I use to hate it when old people started talking like that, I guess it true, "you become what you condemn".

J'sCochins · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

I love the name Birdhill. Our kids named this the "Riverhouse" And your right. When you get our age things take on a whole new perspective. The mad rush is over. Time to just enjoy!!

I for one would not want to be raising kids in this day and age although I did for 5 years. 2 of my grandkids who lived with us with there Dad. They have a new Mom now and she is great with them so I got to go back to being just a Grandma or Nini as they call me.

We traveled all the time for 30 years (all 50 states, Mexico and Canada) and now I just want to sit and be with my hubby, the 4 legged creatures and my chickens!! Laughing

The birdhouses sound wonderful!!!! And I bet spring is just great around your place with all the wonderful music coming from them.

There are things like that that Ty is looking forward to doing when he's here full time like some more bird houses. He's even contemplating building an outhouse out by the cabin but of course due to "laws" about those kind of things it will be strictly ornamental.

Isn't is amazing how we got along just fine (back in the days)living with outhouses, woodburning stoves, etc etc!? When we first got the ranch in Wyoming we had both an outhouse (a fancy 2 holer!) and a big hugh woodburning cook stove (food never tasted better than cooked on that thing) for quite a while and my sister and I took our bath at night in the middle of the kitchen floor in a horse trough with water heated from the stove. "The Good Ol' Days"

I'm sure you house is wonderful and I would love to see some more pictures of inside and out so take some time to get some pictures please and get them up here!

I can tell by just that cabinet that it has to be beautiful!

Take Care
Jacie

P.S. I sure hope we're not driving all you youngsters away with all this talk! All I can tell you is enjoy your life. Live it to the fullest and make the most of each day. Laughing

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and 11 GREAT grandkids

judymae · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:57 am Post subject:

Okay now ya'll made me go and take pics!!! I want to share too. We love our house. We had it built 9 years ago on 5 acres. The living is open to the dining which is open to the kitchen. I love the open feel. But I am going to add a breakfast bar to the opening of the kitchen. It feels to open in there now that we have lived in it for 9 years! Hubby says I'm just itching to do something expensive!! LOL!

Here goes:

THis was taken standing at the front door.

I took this standing in the dining room.

I was standing in the living room looking at the dining room. We like it unformal like it is. Perfect for the kids to mess up!!

I love my kitchen. It is the main reason we picked out this floor plan. When the kids were younger we had a little tykes table in the middle of the kitchen with plenty of room to move around. Made clean up time so much easier.
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J'sCochins · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

Oh Judy Mae! It's lovely!!! I love the floors and I love the gray accents.
Don't you just love the openess. It's so great for us when all the kids and grandkids are here. They actually talk to each other and visit more. That is when their not all outside doing something.

You home is very very pretty. Great for raising kids.

Jacie

P.S. Have you thought of a big cabinet chopping block in the kitchen? That would look very nice and they are so functional. But a bar cabinet would be nice also.
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The Riverhouse
Home to Jacie and Ty
and assorted little God's creatures
Ocasionally
4 kids/spouses
and 11 GREAT grandkids

judymae · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jacie!! I really want to do something with the kitchen. I was thinking a breakfast bar coming from the cabinets against the wall to about 2/3rds the way across the opening into the kitchen. My grandfather is a great carpenter. (he made his living with a cabinet shop for over 40 yrs) He offered to build it for us. But right now he is in the middle of selling his cabinet shop and buying their retirement home. So I told him to wait until spring when everything has slowed down. I can't wait. I can feed the kiddos at it and make it even easier on me.

I'll take pics of the front of the house and the deck out back in just a little while. My landscaping is nothing like yours! I only wish. We had a basketball tournament with our oldest so today has been kinda rush rush!
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J'sCochins · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: