Up early, drive to Hesperia, spend all day at the new house for inspections. Termite inspections. (Clean, no problem.) Septic tank inspections. (Wait, we’ve got a septic tank? No problems yet, but the detailed inspection is tomorrow.) General inspection. (A gazillion things checked, a list of a couple dozen deferred maintenance issues to be dealt with, but nothing serious. And several interesting and wonderful things that I’m loving!)
Eleven days ago we spent 48 minutes there, less than an hour. Today we spent over five hours and got to poke into everything. DELIGHTFUL! We are extremely pleased.
One of the features that I absolutely love is an interior courtyard, open to the sky, with my future office on one side, the dining room next to that, the living room next to that, and the back of the garage on the fourth side. It’s about 10-12 feet square, with lots of small shrubs and bushes around the edges, so there’s plenty of room for us to put in some lawn or porch furniture. It will be toasty in the daytime during the summer, but in the evenings it will be lovely. And we’ve got a fake owl! And clouds! And the Sun!
All along every exposed upper surface in the courtyard are anti-bird spike strips, so apparently the current owner considers the presence of birds to be a problem to be solved – we’re more likely to take down the spike strips and put up feeders, so there’s a post-move-in DIY project that even *I* can tackle!
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 