~to have enough~

I like the concept of having "just enough".
Not more than and surely not less than either.
Life has had this way for me of evening itself out.

I sold my home back in Hutchinson a month ago.  I didn't get what I was hoping to get for it but the great thing was that I got just "enough".  I could finish paying off my mortgage and rid myself of the worry that taking care of a home when you live 400 miles away from it can bring.  No more need to call Roto-Rooter when the sewer backed up.  No more fear of the pipes somehow freezing up in the winter.  No more concern about when a Kansas severe storm would strike and bring with it the winds and hail that could damage property.

No more.

When Mike and I first moved here back in late May, it was never our dream to locate in Burkburnett.  We were headed towards Wichita Falls, a city just down the road a ways from where we are now.  That plan fell through and it was necessary to make a complete change of direction.  Thankfully we went 10 miles to the north, near the Red River and the border of Oklahoma.  In 24 hours after not being able to move into the house we originally had figured to, we were fortunate enough to find the home we have now lived in for 7 months.  

It was not in our original plans but when you have a moving truck filled with your belongings and two pets who are ready to secretly begin to "riot", you do what you have to do.  This little house was open and available for rent, so we moved in only a day after arriving in Texas.

It really was just enough.

We hadn't planned to buy a home until we were sure that this is where we wanted to stay.  Neither of us came with a job prospect in hand.  Faith in the belief that there was a good reason for us to be here was the only driving force that made us leave our old home in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Colorado.

Now that we have been here for nearly 8 months, we realize that it's where we intend to settle and a great place to be.  In just a few weeks more, it will be time for us to move once again.  We have found a home to purchase right here on the outskirts of town and we will be spending the next couple of weeks packing up our belongings.  Thankfully this time we don't have 800 miles and one 11,000+feet summit to pass over in the journey.  Our new home will be only 4 miles from the one we currently are living in.

It is not fancy but to us it is beautiful.  It was created in the same year that I was~1955.  There will be no swimming pool in the half acre backyard but I half jokingly/half seriously told Mike that there is plenty of room to build the "tiny house" that I have always wanted.  Our new home will be our place to grow older together in and as luck would have it, it offers the thing we were most looking for.

It has just enough.

May 27, 2015~the day that this great adventure began as we left behind the friends who had become our "family" in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Colorado.  Seems like so long ago now to see them all.  We miss them and love them always.