So you want to see where we live...

Our room is on the top left.
Open door, look out.
Look left
... and finally look right. Notice fence and building please...


So you want to see where we live. Ok, here it is. It is, and always has been, a Guest House Suite - and there is no "Plus" to it. I have only called it an 'apartment' because it is a long term place to live.

We live on a major intersection of two major streets and one freeway. There is another freeway one mile north and one mile west of us. Emergency vehicles pass with sirens blazing every few minutes. Literally. I say "Lord be with them - someone's life just changed" dozens of times a day.

We live in a motel. The lights outside are always on. No amount of closing curtains can close out the light and noise. We have permanent inside nightlights that are always on. We cannot turn them off. Insulation? You must be kidding! This place was built 40 years ago. Did they even know insulation existed? I don't think so.


We do have a slider door - looking out onto the building and fence you see in the last picture. It also has a nice constant breeze - even in 17 degree weather. The curtains let the chill in nicely.


This is not our home. Our home has our belongings and our dirt. This place does not have our comfy well worn furntiure, our guest welcoming kitchen with my wonderful cabinet of every spice imaginable, or our tivo and dvr player. It is not our awesome backyard with our huge oak tree protecting our outside porch swing from the blazing Louisiana sun. It does not have our comfy bed or our screened in patio. There is no bbq pit - and my man is one heck of a bbq-er. His tools are safely locked up 700+ miles away.


We have smiled and made the best of it, but we are both weary of smiling. The best of it has long since passed. We are ready to go home. He is exhausted from the project - a project well done, but time to be over. Vacations last 2 weeks and are fun. This is not fun for either one of us.


Tomorrow is our 31st anniversary. We were supposed to go on a cruise on our 30th, but instead we moved up here to start this project. He will take a break tomorrow to go visit his mom on our 31st.


Hopefully we will go to our real home on Thursday. That will be a happy anniversary.


Now you know where we have been living.