To day I want to share a small, but very important part of my world — our home in the Glade. It’s not a very big or fancy house, but we sure do like it.
We saw the house for the first time in August, 2002. The picture below shows us what sold us that first time — the great room. If you click to make the picture bigger you’ll see that there is a fireplace (which gets a lot of use in cool weather) and the doors opening out onto the wrap-around back deck. There is a third patio door to the right of the pictures. The three doors provide wonderful ventilation in the summer.
The picture below shows the front of the house on the day we closed. We were so excited — he had a retirement home! We used the house as a weekend hideaway until July, 2003, when we moved up here full time.
Since then, we’ve made some changes — mostly on the outside of the house. This next picture was taken this year, and shows some of the changes we’ve made. As you can see, we’ve added a flagpole, three circular flower beds (only two are visible) and the rose beds on either side of the driveway.
This last picture is of the larger of the two rose beds. I’ve included it because I like roses and because I am already thinking about Spring (don’t tell Betsy!).
I hope you enjoyed the tour of my little corner of the world. To see more of the world, click HERE or on the logo below.
Senior Moments 
December 29, 2008 at 10:46 pm |
Beautiful home,and those roses.Wow!My favorite flower of all time.
Blessings,Ruth
December 29, 2008 at 10:48 pm |
The roses are beautiful. You have made your house look like home. Really nice.
December 29, 2008 at 11:40 pm |
What a beautiful home and I do love the great room and all the window space…The area looks so lush, but you said you had needed rain, so you must work at keeping it so green. Lovely landscaping…
December 29, 2008 at 11:58 pm |
Thanks for sharing it. It´s easy to see why you love it.
December 30, 2008 at 12:38 am |
Nice shots and the pink flowers really POP the color!!!
December 30, 2008 at 6:26 am |
That really was a very private and personal my world. Lovely it is too.
December 30, 2008 at 6:27 am |
George: Thanks for the tour of your home. It looks like a great place for you and Betsy.
December 30, 2008 at 7:55 am |
Beautiful! I can almost smell those roses!
December 30, 2008 at 8:41 am |
It looks very comfortable. We all know that it’s not the size or how much it’s worth that make it a home.
December 30, 2008 at 9:27 am |
A lovely home that looks cozy and happy and the gardens look so pretty.
December 30, 2008 at 9:43 am |
Oh, I like your roses! I am usually good with ourdoor flowers, but for some reason have no luck with roses or azaleas. I have given up on them.
December 30, 2008 at 9:56 am |
I agree with the others. That’s a lovely home and the flower beds are gorgeous!
December 30, 2008 at 10:13 am |
I can see why you enjoy your home. The changes are wonderful and. Thanks for sharing this part of your world. 🙂
December 30, 2008 at 10:17 am |
More than anything else, it’s the wrap-around deck and the three patio doors that I adore! With all those trees, it must be wonderful there!
Thank you for letting us inside your special world, George.
December 30, 2008 at 10:20 am |
George, Thanks for sharing your world with us!! Love the great room and the roses. I can imagine Betsy likes for you to work in the rose garden! You need to give Jeep some lessons in that!
December 30, 2008 at 2:55 pm |
You have a nice house. Love the roses.
December 30, 2008 at 4:20 pm |
You have a nice place.
December 30, 2008 at 6:47 pm |
I love the landscaping and especially the roses. What joy to have even a single rose in a bud vase during the summer.
December 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm |
Lovely home….it is fitting for that area, a little bit rustic, and very homey.
One of my friends is a well-known decorator in that area, she does a lot of work for the retiring folks, just moving to the Glade, most of them from the Northern States.
They give her free reign of decorating their homes, usually sight unseen, and seem to be always happy and delighted, in the finished product.
I think people who are retiring, and on the verge of a new adventure and pathway, are for the most, a happy bunch, having done the hard work, and now onto enjoying the fruits of their labor….
Good for you !
December 30, 2008 at 9:50 pm |
You have such a lovely home and I do love that great room! Also that flag pole was a great addition! Looking forward to seeing your spring roses….
December 30, 2008 at 11:31 pm |
Thank you for the tour of your world. I love the great room with all the space and light.
Happy New Year!
December 31, 2008 at 9:54 am |
Our homes are ,after all, our world. I know you are enjoying yours. It’s very peaceful.
December 31, 2008 at 10:57 am |
You’ve taken a nice house and made it a lovely home. Kudos to you, and thanks for sharing this very important part of your world.
January 1, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
How lovely to see the retirement home you’ve created for yourself. Thanks for sharing.
Hugs and blessings,