Old Yard revisited

 Let me just say, life is one huge learning experience.  The years spent in this house were a great lesson.  We have learned what we want, and don't want, what we can do and can't do, and really that there aren't enough hours in the day with both of use working.  It would always happen that a million projects would get done in the summer, and then everything would sit 10 months until I could resume it.  It was enough for us to try to get the holidays set up and taken down. 
So, while we love our new place (more on that later), what we miss the most is our yard.  Our yard was our space.  It was for barbeques, and tricycles, and communing with nature inside the privacy of a fence.  Being in an apartment complex really rids a lot of privacy.  I even miss the two tone grass, as featured by a little girl who was not happy I put her on the dry grass.  We were putting a lot of effort into reseeding, and making that bermuda grow.  It was working nicely in parts, but because of our scorching summers, was a little patchy.  Another year would have fixed that problem.  Lesson learned: next time we sod.

 Oh little house.  We miss you.  We loved you.  We wish the "housing crisis" hadn't touched us and tainted our recollection of you, but you were a great first house.  We will remember you fondly.

 We will also remember tricycles fondly.  This may definitely be in Malcolm's birthday future.  While triking or biking around a complex parking lot is not my idea of safe fun, it is a doable past time.  Especially to get him trained up for cycling.

 Hugs and kisses!