Paradise?

Well, there isn't much new here in "so called Paradise". June started out pretty good with showing the house but it has eased up. Guess it's just too hot for people to be out house hunting. It's really not any hotter than a normal Florida summer, only it started a month early this year. Summer is the time of year that I hate the most in Florida. It just lasts forever. A good six months! It's so hot, you don't even want to go outside but the worse part is.....it stays so blasted hot at night. The only relief you get, is if it rains and then that relief doesn't last long. There is no "sitting on the porch" during summer so you just stay inside and listen to the AC run and run. I try and keep myself busy with my sewing, scrap booking, knitting, quilting and painting, while I dream of the day I get to pack everything up and leave. I will be more than willing to have someone come take my place in " so called Paradise". I guess it all depends on what you "think" Paradise is. It just depends on where you are coming from and where you are going too.

Time on the land...

Since Chuck is being laid off from his job on my birthday, we will have all the time in the world to go to the land. That's such a happy thought! Makes me smile, just typing it. We talked about going up for about a month and going ahead with putting the water, electric and septic tanks in. It all sounded good....well, maybe on paper. I would LOVE to spend a month or even the whole summer up there, don't get me wrong....BUT! Isn't there always a " but" to everything? There is the wonderful problem of selling the house here in as so many people call it " Paradise"...ha. ( number 59 hurricane season has started for me....sigh!) We can not leave this house to sell on it's own. Even if we hired someone to come mow the yard once a week ( but remember Chuck won't be working any more so that really won't be in our budget) there is always the fact that we couldn't find someone to come and hand water all the plants in the yard every evening, like I do. (they will not survive without it) Then, there is the fact that we have the two cats. We have a wonderful neighbor that comes down to the house twice a day to feed the kitties when we do go to the land, but I couldn't ask her to do that for a month. I wouldn't want to leave the kitties here alone like that for that long of a time any ways. We can't take them with us because it would traumatize one of them too much. I am not looking forward to even moving him when or "IF"( I have started saying,) it's time. On top of the upkeep of the yard and the cats, there is " the showing of the house". Someone needs to be here to " stage the house" and make sure that Annabelle ( our kitty that runs away if someone even cracks the door enough for her to get out) doesn't get out when the Real Estate people come to show the house. Soooooo, this is why it sounded good on paper when we talked about it, but in real life..." nope". We are back to thinking the best idea will be to wait to put the water, electric and septic tanks in, the first thing when we/ IF move up there. I have a feeling it's going to be another long, awful hot summer in so called " paradise". Chuck says....maybe a hurricane will come and blow the house away, we can collect our insurance, sell the lot and off to Alabama we go. Maybe that's the only way we'll ever get there.....LOL. Oh.....it had better happen this hurricane season because we were informed this week, that come November, they are canceling our Home owners insurance...for the second time now. ( because they don't want to have to pay out for hurricanes) Sure will be nice not to have to live with this problem " when/IF" we move. They can't wait to insure everything we own, up in Alabama. I'll keep ya'll posted on the " showing of the house in Paradise".