WE'RE HOME

After nearly a year traveling on our own and with Nielsen, LauraAnne and I have finally found Home!

We were scheduled to close on a fixer-upper last Fri, but financing fell through due to some zoning and appraisal issues. Fri morning we had a moving truck parked in a hotel parking lot in Denver full of our worldly possessions, so Fri night we were homeless! Our realtor invited us to stay at her place on the north end of CO Springs after we looked around for a house we could A) afford B) move into. We drove by a tri-level loft style in the historic district of Colorado Springs and met the owner/builder outside. He was gracious enough to let us move in Saturday night without closing on it!


We are now nearly settled...the fridge arrived today and we'll dig a washer/dryer out of the seller's storage this week. We've got Nielsen work here till the end of the year. We'll work on that and set up our online bookstore on Amazon.com and maybe Abebooks. We'll get/create part-time jobs until the online books are self-sufficient.



The place is great and suits us well...the bottom is a 3 car tandem garage where we can store thousands of books. The second floor has the kitchen, family room, fireplace, extra bedroom, bathrooom, w/d hookup, balcony. The third floor has the living room, office, bathroom, and our bedroom.

We've been working from the middle-up, so the attached photos are the kitchen/family room and extra bedroom. The garage is currently used as the owner's storage--can't complain since we still havent closed on it.

Any time anyone's in the area, please come visit and stay as long as you like! We'd love to have you. You can sip coffee on the balcony and watch the sun light up Pike's Peak, walk to Starbucks, take a short (1 mile) drive or walk to Garden of the Gods, or go to Old Colorado City, the historic district.

We're very excited and very blessed. We couldnt believe Friday morning when we were homeless that God could have something better for us, but He sure did!