Good-bye Alpine Pond House

When I was young, I loved reading a book entitled, Good-bye Kitchen...it was one of my favorites because it was so true to how it feels to say good-bye to friends and moving on. This move (although exciting) is just as hard to deal with emotionally as any of our others.  I am not good at good-byes...I never have been but here I am again.

So...

Good-bye, large living room that we used as our "ball room" pushing the furniture aside to let the children dance.  Where we had impromptu piano concerts and singing.  We even used this area for our exercise area for P.E.

Good-bye, open kitchen and dining room with the large island and green cabinets where we prepared and served so many fun family meals!  The place where I was able to try out all collection of recipes and narrow it down to our favorites and make my monthly cookbooks!  I will have to finish this project at another house for dessert recipes!

Good-bye, master bedroom that allowed me to set up a bedroom and an office...and the big window with the window seat where we watched the birds on our bird feeder attached to the red bud tree.  We were able to see tufted titmouse, wrens, doves and chickadees every morning.  And we even had an occasional cardinal, finch...AND even more exciting a woodpecker, ring-necked pheasant and roadrunner flying past our yard!  Such a joy to watch!

Good-bye, back deck that became Hank's perch to view the world as cars and people came in an out of the community gate.  We called ourselves the gatekeepers but ti really became Hank's job and he never let us down!

Good-bye, all the extra cubby spaces that we built in to various areas to make the home work for us!

Good-bye, big library upstairs...Michael built all those nice shelves to hold our many books for school and enjoyment!  Oh, I pray we can make it in the base housing with our books in boxes for the next year AND that the next home will have the shelves we need for the books before we move in!

Good-bye, garage that was strangely air-conditioned but enjoyed by the children.  It never held one of our vehicles but made a great storage space and a place to ride scooters on the rainy days this spring!

Good-bye, office and bedroom off the garage that made our house special and different from the others in the neighborhood.  Henry especially will miss his room away from the rest of the house to find the peace and quiet he needed away from the rest of the loud family!

Good-bye to all the places in between...you served us well house on Alpine Pond...we know god has big plans for our future.  May you be enjoyed by the new family.

And to all those who we have met in San Antonio...this is not good-bye...God willing...we will be back in a year to find a new house to make a home.  I like to think of this as an extended vacation...a field trip to the West.  May God bless you all...stay in touch!