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Oh, hello. This is where we stay now.

As you can see, it is mostly driveway

but there is a little house too.

This neighborhood is very, very quiet other than the many ice cream trucks that stop by every day and there are also families which is a thing with which we do not have experience.

Please enter through the fortuitously Will-thwarting, heavy, sticky front door into the living room.

Not much to speak of but we don't do much in the living room beyond loaf and read or watch the tele, so fine for that.

If you slide to the left the hall takes us to the bedrooms.

The kids have downsized a bit but we are gratefully surface dwellers again.

Despite the lovely butterfly and flower border, this room has taken on a very teenager-y feel.

The boys have cooperatively agreed to share a room and they really like the bunk bed.

See? (It's been an exhausting week)

Jen has splendidly organized and decorated our room in monochrome:

Back down the hall, taking a left we enter the kitchen with a fabulous granite counter and lots of shiny appliances.

Just adjacent the kitchen, conveniently, is the dining area where you can see William enjoying half a piece of toast, one bite of egg, two bites of banana and a yogurt. He might be a bird.

Walking through the dining area, the patio doors open to this lovely outdoor space which some random people discovered made a very pleasant place to hang out and chat.

We call this the middle yard, anchored by the pool and garage on opposite sides.

Swinging around to the right, in front of the garage, you can see how ridiculously large the driveway is: Up to 10 cars can park.

Back around the other side, we uncovered this nice little garden in front of the pool. This looks like an excellent future home for vine-y things.

it is uncovered because we couldn't even see it (nor did we even know if there was an air conditioner) because the weeds were so thick (tons of sowthistle).

Looking at the middle yard from the back.

Beyond the pool, garage and middle yard, the back, back yard. In the distance, there, are our buckets of tomatoes, peppers and herbs.

As for the pool, it is very large. So large, in fact, we hired a full time life guard:

We opened the pool Saturday and since have had little sun but a lot of rain -- on the order of four inches in 24 hours.

Cousin Gina thought the water was a bit too cool but the one impervious to cold has been swimming until sunset, since.

We also have a very nice finished basement but it is still filled with boxes so we'll have to visit that another time.