Floating Further Out

 Our time at the big pink house came to a close on Friday and we took my sister up on an offer to come stay with her in Houston.  The idea was to check out in the morning, I would work from the hospital while Kim spent the day taking kids to class and well...floating until I got off work. 

There have been very few houses coming online in San Marcos and all of them have 1-2 dealbreakers.  Too small, too expensive, too close the I-35.  That literally sums up the three houses that came online, so we started to look farther afield and that's how I came across the A-frame.

I was hooked on the description of the place.  "The patriarch of the Patterson family had traveled the world but said his favorite place on earth was the corner of the deck overlooking the beautiful oaks of the Texas Hill Country. For four generations, this home made forever memories for the Pattersons."   It needed a lot of work of course, but to me that just means there's more value on the flip side. The big downside was it was so far out west and I wasn't sure if that was too far to drive. 

We got all worked up on Friday and decided to delay our trip to Houston by a day so we could go to the open house.  Erik once again let us crash with him in East Austin.

Before we even got to the property I knew it was too far out.  Too far to drive to the hospital.  Too far to drive to the airport for PatternShifts.  Too far to drive to the bloody grocery store.  The place was awesome with three huge bedrooms, two workshops and a garage apartment.  The Guadalupe river was less than a mile away!  But our search afar had met it's limit. 

We drove straight from the lake to Houston and were greeted with the usual smorgasbord from Liz and a chiminea fire from DK.  Sunday was an easy day relaxing at the house.  Kim and I got to break away to eat the world famous Tommy's tacos (my all time favorite), the kids played in the park.  That afternoon we went down to Discovery Green to let the kids run wild and grab some specialty foods from Phoenicia, and that evening we set up the big screen in the yard and watched The Dirtbike Kid.  The days spent with the Kilgores are always full of adventure. 

I worked from Houston on Monday and Kim booked our next spot in Buda, TX.  

Alright, already, we'll all float on

No, don't you worry, we'll all float on 

Alright, already, we'll all float on 

Alright,don't worry, we'll all float on...