Beach Trip

Today Cowboy and I went to the beach to see some dear friends.

We moved away a year ago and really miss it.

We spent six years going every weekend.

Then made a permanent move 5 years ago.

We had five properties through out the years.

We've had a camping lot, home on an interior lot,

home on the beach, home on the canal, and our last place

was a funky 1930's cottage close to the beach.

We loved all of these places, but I think our favorite was the cottage!

It would have been perfect on the beach!

When we bought this place it was full of odds and ends!

Full of junk, antiques, treasures and books, books, books!

He had everyone numbered.

It had been added on to several times.

It has a lot of character.

We worked on it for a year before moving in.

It was very dark inside.

We had to prime and paint everything twice.

We painted the ceiling, beams, and walls all the same color

to open in up.

We did paint the library a darker color.

There's built in bookcases everywhere.

The floors were old pine boards of many different

styles and sizes and colors.

We painted it all a chocolate brown to make it less noticeable.

We took out two walls to open it up when you came in.

We gutted the kitchen.

Installed painted white bead board cabinets,

travertine counters, and stainless appliances.

We put bead board on the ceiling in the dining room

and hung my crystal chandelier!

The pellet stove sat between our chairs!

We didn't get to do anything to the outside before we had to sell it.

The new owners have painted it

and we love what they have done.

This is the inside when we lived it it.

This is what we called the library.

This is the sitting area.


This is just off of the sitting area.
I don't have any pictures of the kitchen and dining rooms.
They turned out so cute.
We didn't get the bathroom remodeled.
There was still alot of work to be done when we sold.

I really miss it!

Our friends have two Great Danes.
Sadie, Kendall, Rosie
They love playing together


Kendall
She has gotten very fragile since we saw her last.
She is 11 1/2
She has bone cancer.
She is loved very much.


Sadie
She is 4 1/2
130 lbs!
She is really a lot of fun and a good girl!
She has really grown up.
She loves to back up to you and sit her rump on you!

We had a great time today.

We love the beach and really miss our friends.

We really thought we would retire there, but God had another plan!

Thank you for all your concern and well wishes.

I am doing good. The lip still hurts like heck at times,

but the doctor said it is healing nicely.

Those popsicle's taste pretty good!

Dusty Devoe