to dream, perchance to ... move ?

Although I may be just a tad young to already know this, I can say with 99% certainty that one thing I am not wanting to do is retire in Florida. This morning my love and I walked to a moving sale in our neighborhood (not that we need more stuff). The sellers were happy to talk about their move down south. Another neighbor we met explained that they were going to move as well, but to a place with lower humidity- my wish exactly!  And for myself I'd like to add mountains, evergreen forests, rocky hiking paths, all of this preferably close to the ocean.

My mom is going to have to to move twice, because my childhood home is going to be renovated by the housing agency. The picture shows my little brother (ahem) in the middle, with two friends who were very nice to agree to help tear my old attic bedroom down...since my dad build it himself, it had to go. I am having a hard time describing my emotions about that...I loved that cozy room.

See that window behind my little brother? That is the one he climbed out of and waved from when he was three years old, giving my mom and me our first grey hairs. We were in the yard below, hanging laundry.

this is the window, although years ago it had bars and a side-opening 

My little brother is going to move too, to a bigger house with a large space in the back for little L to run around and enjoy.

It is no secret that I have been wanting to move for years.We almost moved at least twice, but obviously didn't yet. And every now and then things happen and I start dreaming again, perchance to move to....Europe? Closer to family? Family is one reason, and frankly, the healthcare system in the US is another. (yes and I do work in a hospital).

R's family

my family...even the youngest one was there, but not born yet

But on a day like today, I enjoy where we are- this house, that still feels to me like a beloved old comfortable corduroy jacket, the wooded lot with the sounds of crickets and tree frogs and the breeze through the kitchen window when I mix up the pizza dough. Seeing Lucy and Mila chase each other and squirrels.

Fresh pictures from the yard this morning...it is weekend so I finally got a chance to walkabout!