Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 06, 2024

After 20 years in the same condo, we moved into a house. It felt like home to me the very first night and I never looked back. 20 years on a tiny balcony and now I have a screened in patio, a patio and a back yard. I understand people can have a hard time with change. Only one place feels like home to them. Decisions like this cannot be undone. Someone else will own your home and you can’t go back. Now, that’s not to say my situation has been ideal. We bought the house and listed our condo the same week the interest rates went up twice and the local housing market collapsed. It was also a week and a half before my company downsized and I lost my job. I mentioned this before and I’m still, over 6 months later, job hunting. We did get the condo sold a few weeks ago. Far less than we had expected to get. Really can’t blame Arlo for his reluctance/hesitation. “Ah, when to the heart of manWas it ever less than a treasonTo go with the drift of thingsTo yield with a grace to reasonAnd bow and accept the endOf a love or a season?” from Reluctance by Robert Frost