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Serenity Island Life

This weekend, we had our first visitors! My parents came to visit us on our island, and I'm not sure who would win a competition of "who got the most out of this visit"!

Right away, let me say that I've learned that whatever is the first picture I put on each blog post,...

It was a very, VERY long drive from Texas to Maine, but we made the drive (rather than flying) because we needed to haul a large load of STUFF to "set up house" on Serenity, and because we wanted to bring our little dog, Reagan with us for the month of adventure. We ha...

...and finally, it was Saturday, March 31, and we were on our way to the airport! We had chosen to fly into Boston and then drive a rental up to Maine; I know this sounds like an unreasonably long drive, when we could have just flown into Bangor or Bar Harbor, but you...

               Thursday began with the call from Quicken Loans/Rocket Mortgage telling me, coolly, that they were not going to be able to close on our loan after all. For six weeks, we had been “conditionally approved” and now, less than 48 hours from our flight to Mai...

In the SIX TORTUROUS WEEKS that we waited (thanks to the winter in Maine) before going to actually visit Serenity Island, there was remarkably little to do. The loan was in place, just waiting on the final appraisal, and the contract was in place, with the safety net t...

 My husband, Roger, and I have been discussing our upcoming empty-nesters syndrome. We have two kids still at home, and one of them is starting college next year, the other starting high school, and we had begun to discuss what we would do with ourselves when it is tru...