The Cabin

We didn’t make an offer on the cabin. Honestly, I think what Vince wants is a place that we could end up having for “home” and not keeping this house. I’m not sure. He says no but then he comments about not having enough area to garden and do some things he wants to do. He likes the idea of 80 acres but I don’t like the idea of 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom – especially if he has any idea that might be our only home some day. That’s just not even close to being something that would work for us.

We’ve had two homes at once before and I agree . . it is NOT something I want to do, especially with security issues these days and with us being older and not needing to be maintaining two places.

I do think that every time we find something we think may work and then think about all the maintenance and going back and forth, we talk ourselves out of it.

The bottom line is that this house is so different from what we had – with the lack of space and privacy, that I think Vince is having a hard time adjusting. There are things he loves about being here, and he’ll often say “We were so lucky to get this place” so I think he’s happy with what we have but I just think the adjustment is harder for him.

Today we were driving back home and he said “There’s a place over on the east side of town that looks like a really nice assisted living complex.” I said “Wait . . we’ve just considered a cabin on 80 acres out in the woods and from that, you’re talking about assisted living??” He said “NO!! I was just mentioning that I saw a place I had never noticed before.” I’m thinking . . if you saw a strip joint, would you mention that or . . really, are you thinking about assisted living?

Seriously, I don’t think he’s thinking about it for the near term but it is something to consider for 15 – 20 years or so from now.