@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
@Financialgrl I keep telling Bill the cat that I'm going to be real upset if Topper Shutt (do you know Topper on CBS/channel 9 weather)? He keeps talking about all the rain.
Anyway, if Topper starts talking about a drought this summer you'll hear a loud yell and say to your friends, "That's just that ding dong Annabelle from QVC....she's fed up with this weather". Ha!
My daughters want me to sell this house and move into one of the places like where you live. I live in a big house on 1 acre that we raised 3 daughters in. It's long been paid for and I don't even go into some of the rooms. I'm just comfortable here.
If I moved they'd want me to move closer to Fairfax, Va where my oldest daughter lives. I can't stand Fairfax County. I just think the people are rude (generalizing). I like it out here because it's more like ...... well it is country but not quite. My neighbors care for things that I ask them for help with. I have someone who mows the lawn and does things for me. It's a split level so it's comfortable.
Do you like it where you live? I keep getting pamplets from a place in Springfield, Va called Springgreen. I think that's it. I believe my girls signed up my name with them. I'll probably eventually have to move but not yet.
You are the only person I've met who lives in one of those. Maybe one day. I can travel and do what I want and have a friend who cares for my house and cats. While I was visiting my daughter recently in Denver my friend shampooed my rugs and cared for my cats. I paid her but still there aren't many friends like that around. See why I hate to move. Ha!
Take care.
@Annabellethecat66 Been in area since 1966 so I know Topper and Sue Palka - prob two of the longest meteorologists around this area I told the neighbor today that I bet come July/August we'll complain bc it hurts our feet to walk across the grass that feels like straw!
I grew up in Prince William County and later moved to Culpeper County to be closer to siblings when I had to move dad in with me. THat was a large home on 3 acres. When dad died I stayed another 4 years mostly bc I was too lazy to do all that moving entails.
I think you are speaking of Green Springs which is a retirement continual care community. They tend to have 3 levels of care - independent living, assisted living and then on to memory care/nursing care. I have a few friends that are in Ashby Ponds out in Loudoun County and love it. All are still in independent living.
I'm in an over 55 community (all single family homes very close together). You see many of those around (Hovnanian, Del Webb, Toll Brothers communities). I had a one level 2 bed 2 bath home built. Our homes are very close together, and HOA fees here will shovel snow (on our driveways and sidewalks). We have the option of paying an extra fee to the HOA and they'll do our individual lawncare and most take advantage of that. I see few mow their own grass. We have the indoor/outdoor pools, and a clubhouse that always has a lot of activities going on during the day and often evening activities. I told my siblings when I moved here that moving was too much of a hassle - this will be my last home before or until I can no longer live alone and have to move into a continual care facility.
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