Missing Rain - 5/25/07

My paternal Grandfather's Baby Picture (circa 1893) taken by my Great-Grandfather who owned a studio at the time.

I'm missing having a house right now. I don't miss the house we sold to move here. I'm missing the house before that one. That house had a wrap around deck with a roof over part of it. The house backed into a stand of woods. You could sit on the deck in the rain. The siding was a light gray, the shutters were black, and the front door was red. I would plant red geraniums in big pots to sit on the deck and there was a white wooden bench on the narrow side of the deck. We weren't crazy about the layout of that house (it was a split foyer), but the outside I liked once we put on new siding, shutters, windows, and deck. We put a lot of money into that before we decided to move on. I think my husband was afraid I'd want to add an addition onto the house and that's why we moved. Oops I almost forgot we also did a complete kitchen renovation on that place too. Maybe its not the house I'm missing, maybe its the outside space. Actually maybe I'm missing rain.