Highland Dreams

Jun 01, 2010 09:54 AM Filed in: Day To Day
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Happy June to you all! Wow, that came up on us pretty fast. Spring has been a busy season here with lots and lots of yard business going on and even the beginnings of porch painting. I'm a little behind where I thought I'd be right now,
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but not terribly, and nothing I can't catch up on fairly quickly once I put my mind to it. The yard is in good shape now with just some weeding to do to make it look Nice. The new flower beds are looking quite healthy, and I even found my first little blooms beginning to pop up this morning. By the end of this month we should be seeing blooms popping out all over! I've also got a full coat of primer on the front porch, white for the railings and grey for the floor and steps so it actually looks finished from a distance. Very NIce. I have another coat of the real paint to get on there before long, and I think after that I will call it Done. As for the back porch I haven't even touched it yet! But it's getting stained instead of painted, and it doesn't have all those spindles and posts to worry over, so it should go much more quickly I think, possibly a two day job. So we are definitely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel around here project wise. It feels great!
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And the timing couldn't be better. V and I have been talking a lot about our future plans, and these days my thoughts are turning ever more to the years ahead and moving myself and the kitty pirate crew over seas. It's still a ways off, V doesn't finish her doctorate until next January, and then we'll have to see where she lands that first veterinary job, but the day dreaming has already begun. My head is generally full of the Scottish Highlands these days! That's our first choice of home, anywhere in Scotland really, but our hearts are in the Highlands. And in typical me fashion I have been doing that late night googling for 'things wonderful and generally unattainable', in this case, houses in the Highlands. And guess what? I found a lot of them! Of course this is way, way premature, and I really am just day dreaming at this point, but it made me feel happy none-the-less to discover some really charming (and affordable) homes scattered around the Highlands. So just for fun I thought I'd share a few of them with you. Just click on the four house pictures in this post and you'll be whisked away to a listing for each of them.
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The first is a cute little two bedroom home on the banks of the River Tilt. I love the deck, and I can just imagine listening to the sound of the river all night long, sleeping with the windows open as often as we could. It just has a nice homey feel to it, almost like a vacation cabin! Except one we'd get to live in every day. Very Nice.
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And then there's this lovely cottage in Bora. It has three bedrooms and a charming little backyard for the cats to play in. It looks wonderful on the inside, I love that bathroom! And it has the most gorgeous sweeping views of the countryside around. I know I would be a very happy camper looking out on that vista every day. Who wouldn't be?
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Speaking of vistas, check out the views around this one. Mountains! I love mountains. This one is in Wester Ross. It has 3 bedrooms too and a great kitchen. I could definitely see making pancakes for V in the mornings before work and then enjoying a good cup of coffee and the view out the kitchen window. And all three of the cats would love roaming those fields and hills. ^-^
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And last we have this, a two bedroom on The Isle of Skye. I love The Isle of Skye. I used to tell my friends that if I ever disappeared and they wanted to find me to look on The Isle of Skye! There's just something about that place. It feels Right to me. The whole isle is filled with dramatic landscapes. I can imagine walking out the door and into a time hundreds of years in the distant past. Just like that.
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All of you who know me know that I've talked about living in Scotland for years and years now. It was just another one of those "A Ha" moments for V and I when we realized that we shared that particular dream. In fact, one of the first plans we ever made was to take a road trip through the Highlands together as a way to celebrate her finishing vet school. That was almost two years ago now that we first started talking about those holiday plans and teasing each other about driving on the left side of the road! And now here we are two years later planning to move to Scotland together. Life is full of surprises! I love it. Adventure! And we're both excited now to see what the next few years have in store for us. Wait & see, that's what we always say to each other.
 Wait & see! Happy   JB