Home Sweet Home -and- Dog Oh Dog

I know, I know this one is overdue, but there's more!!!!

After all of the long miles, steep hills, and cold nights of our last adventure, Krista and I both had a goal...another goal, that we were going to surmount at the end of the AIDS life cycle. It was time to buy a house. So... we had been looking for around a year, just kind of browsing the internet listings and visiting open houses. Learning a lot about what we wanted out of a home...and of course, what we could afford.

Our IDEAL home: 3 bedrooms - one to sleep in, one to work in, and one for guests (one of the bedrooms needed to have a BIG closet for "our" expansive wardrobe. 2 bathrooms - one for us and 1 for everyone else. STORAGE. Someway, somehow, we NEEDED storage. Let it be known that for the past 2 years, we have had a storage place in Oakland AND a storage space in Santa Barbara, all the while we have lived in 5 different places. It was time to do away with storage rentals and consolidate to one location. It wasn't a must, but we would like to have a yard and some outdoor space where we could dwell, chill, BBQ. And finally, the "perfect" home would have a "granny" unit so we could rent it and at some point a "Granny" might have the option of residing.

After we returned from our ride we thought we should finally hook up with a real estate agent and see what it was all about...

We found a great agent from one of the open houses we visited and we set up a date to see some houses that we had been watching and also a few that she thought would be a good match for us. On that fateful day, our first day "officially" house-hunting, we saw our dream home...

3 Bedrooms...

1.5 baths,

STORAGE! (a small shed to start anyways..)

oh and a garage =)



and a GRANNY!


Wow, here it was OUR DREAM HOME




and then....

We just had to add to the family right then and there and so came....ZOEY

but there was something still missing....