Well, our time here in Boone has flown by… and it’s nearing time for us to leave. So, Thursday, we hopped in the car at 10AM and drove to Staunton so that Virginia could sign some papers at the HR office at Mary Baldwin. We then spent the night with the Newhalls… which is always fun.. we got to play with Jade… and Virginia went to do some yoga with Lisa… Virginia really enjoyed this, because apparently, this Yoga class is led by some kind of Adonis of a man…in Virginia’s words… he’s a beautiful man… I can’t provide my input… so we’ll have to take Virginia's word for it… but… for those folks in the Staunton area… looking for a yoga class taught by a male model… talk with Virginia. She’ll let you know where to go.
Meanwhile, Jonathan and I were hanging out with Jade…. so… I think we had the better half of the deal.
Friday morning, we started off our day with realtors… So… we were looking for something to rent… I still haven’t nailed down a job yet… so.. we’re planning on renting a place for a little while… then buying a place when we’re all good and settled in. So… I was ready to just get either: A) The cheapest place we could find or B) The first place we looked at. … … So… the first place we looked at was a house on Baltimore Street …
So… it was about a block off of Route 11… behind the Fisher Auto Parts… and next to Staunton Steam Laundry….
This place was absolutely dripping with character… Built in probably the early 1900’s…
Plaster walls… dark wood floors…
A “Sleeping Porch”….
Big rooms…. central heating…
Recently redone tile floors in the kitchen and entry…. decent appliances… somewhat dated kitchen….
And… it had a nice little back porch and a back yard….
But… the central heat was gas heat…. and the porch was kind of falling apart… and the back yard meant that I’d have to mow… and the charm of a old house is negated when you think about some of what that means… for example… the back door really doesn’t close… so.. it had one of these numbers on the back door to actually keep it somewhat closed… or… to at least keep it from swinging all of the way open….
All of the windows in the house are single pane… there are doors all over the basement are that you can see light around… air leaks are present all over the house in the form of covered chimney access holes… covered fireplaces… windows that are no longer square, so no longer close all of the way.. So… all of that money spent on natural gas heat would be rather rapidly lost through these many holes and crevices. So… even though we loved the house… I would have been more interested in buying it than renting it..
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