projects pending
Pending approval of my application, I will be moving to Cherry Tree Village in Strongsville within the next few months. I've got a one-bedroom apartment reserved there which becomes available May 31st, and I can move in after June 15th. My weekends are already filling up (or filled up) this summer, so I'm rather limited as far as move-in dates. More details later once this becomes official.
This is, apparently, the year of new residences. I'm moving out of my parents' house for the first time (before I'm 30, no less!), Bre just bought her first house, and Stu & Laurie are building a new house as well. In addition, my parents picked up a bargain in Elyria: a foreclosed home that had been up for sheriff's sale but was re-purchased by the bank, then put on the market at literally half the price.
And when I say "bargain," I'm referring only to the cost of acquiring said property, not the cost of making it fit for habitation. To call it a "fixer-upper" would do a grave disservice to the English language.
Nonetheless, my parents have always wanted to own a historic home, especially one with a Second Empire mansard roof, so this fits that bill. Mind you, once the house is made livable, they will also need to fix up their current house to make it fit for sale. On the plus side, by the time that happens, hopefully the real estate market will have improved.
What else, what else. Last week my brother and sister-in-law were told they will be having a boy this September. Cedar Point opens this Saturday, and Stu/Laurie/Chloe and I will be going bright 'n' early to try and avoid the crowds of music students who will be occupying the park later in the day. (We're also going to see the beagle.) Sunday, I'm subbing for a performance of The King and I. Before you know it, we'll have Spelling Bee at Playhouse Square, the chicken BBQ at my church, another cabaret at Jim's Coffeehouse, the Spencer Myer concert at LCCC, auditions for Company, and my birthday.
There's one other exciting item pending, but per usual, it's not bloggable material. :)
Edited to add: Happy Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you.
5 Comments:
Wow! Big changes for the Bird family. Where did your parents buy a house? Would I know where it is?
Oh, you probably do. It's 321 West Avenue, sort of a dark sage green haunted house looking thing. I haven't actually been in it yet, but I've seen the pictures my mom took before and after the Realty company cleaned it out (cleaned it out, not up, mind you).
I thougght it might be in that neighborhood. I probably walked by it a thousand times when I was growing up. We walked down West Avenue to go downtown for just about everything. With that address, I'm thinking it's by Third Street, then? How cool!
You know, Bryan, if that is the house I am thinking of, it is where my parents' friends, Ed and Ethel Herr (Herr Plaza is named after him) lived when I was really little. Then our mailman, Mr. Currier (my brother and I always thought that with a name like that, it was probably a hereditary job passed own through the generations) and his family then lived there, including his awful son, Ben, who later became an Elyria cop.
Or I'm totally wrong.
I'm pretty sure that's the one; Currier sounds familiar. For a while it was a group home, and it's kind of amazing that more of the house wasn't modified.
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