Fall Falling Leaves Moon
Oh, boy. The scout has found a house. And we’re going to put in an offer tomorrow. Proposed closing Nov. 1. Wow. Don’t know yet when we’d move, too new and we’ve got the current owners feedback on our offer to get yet. Here’s the address: 9358 Black Mountain Dr, Conifer, CO 80433. This is well south of the Idaho Springs area where we had focused our search, but it’s still at 8,800 feet which was a key feature we wanted.
There are, of course, issues. The primary one for me is finding an insurer who will rebuild our house if it burns down. I’ll fly out tentatively on Friday, see the property on Saturday with Jon and return on Sunday.
Kate’s very excited and I think she’s right. This house has no yard to maintain, existing beds for a small garden and good sized work spaces for both of us.
Conifer is west and south of Denver, instead of straight west, so it will not serve as a way 
station for the skiing. It’s about an hour from this place to Jon and Jen’s. Jen’s worried that we’re going to be too far away since we’re moving out there to see them. She doesn’t understand extended family. I grew up in one and know that having the in-laws around all the time isn’t something either the in-laws or she would really want. We’ll see them all on holidays, birthdays, school events. The kids will come out and stay with us. We’ll go over and stay with the kids from time-to-time just as we’ve done from here. (that’s the house)
The important piece for us that this is our new life and we need to be able to make it independent of them, even though having their help as we age remains something we hope will be possible, yet still a good ways off.
It’s exciting to see Kate’s trip prove fruitful. We’ll see how the dance goes on from here.