General Discussion & Chat: Do you live in North Carolina or Tennesee???, 1 by IRIS

IRIS wrote:
Hi lizh! I'm in the Southwestern end about 100 miles from atlanta, In the Greenville county area, It was a litle rough sailing in the beginning, But all is going much smoother now. Happy to see you, Hope all has been well with you!!!!

Darius, It's a three bedroom trilevel, It's about 1800 S. ft. - Had about 1000 S ft. before, So it seems so much more roomier, Not much land at all, Only a fraction of what I had before but, I couldn't keep up with what I had before so maybe having a lot less is a good thing. It's in a sub-division, So there are many houses around, But it's a realativly quite neighborhood and the people I've meet who live around me ( My neighbors) seem really nice!! I'm only about 5-10 minutes from all major stores ( which is very convieneint) Got a fenced in backyard which helps a lot so the dog can run freely and I don't have to worry much about it. It allready had a vegetable garden ( Which I will be using for a flower bed) And it had some plants and shrubs so I don't have to start right from scratch again! I was looking for something with an acrea or two, but couldn't find anything nice with land in my pricerange and got anxious at the end after living in a hotel for almost a month and a half ( very costly!!) Then we got this one and so far, Pretty content! It will take a while to adjust to the surroundings after living secluded for 16 years, But all seems pretty good so far, I give it two years, And if all is still well, Then this is where we will stay, And if not, We will sell and look at other locations. I have allready moved 6 shrubs and I'm going to be putting in 6 Festive Red Hollys this week. Put out some bird feeders, It took a few days, But , I'm allready getting a lot of birds! We have painted the kitchen over, It was green and had a 'green cieling' , Someone had removed wallpaper on it and never got the glue off and then painted over the glue!! Needless to say, We had to use electric sanders and sand down all the walls and prime them before we could paint!!! What a job and a half that was!! Not something I ever want to do again!!! Now it's pale yellow, With a white ceiling, Looks so much brighter and better! I'm going to do tile flooring and change the counter tops and then it will look really nice, Down the road, I'd like to re-do the cabinets and paint them white.
We had just started moving in here about the 18th of December, So been pretty busy doing things around here, We had company from Florida come for a visit for a few days and that was nice as we really don't know very many people around here yet. We had taken a ride out to see the mountains a short while back ( The Blue ridge and Smokey mountains) and they were breath taking! Just love seeing them!! There is sooooo much more to do around here then there was where we use to live!!! The taxes are "alot" cheaper, People are a lot friendlier, And life seems like it would be a lot easier here!
One thing I 'Really Miss" about the North, Is all my plants!! They went with the house, So I had to leave them ( I had 125 different daylilys) plus tons of other plants, trees and shrubs! I left a lot of garden statuary, arbors, tools, ect. because we just didn't have the room in storage for them, We had 2 storage units that were full and we just couldn't take everything. we had moved 16 years of accumulation in two weeks! So, Now, I'll just have to start over again, But, It wasn't plantless when we moved here, So I won't be starting from scratch, I do look forward to the longer growing season here and the variety of plants that can be grown here that couldn't be grown in the North-East, It will be a whole new adventure!!! I know the summer is going to be a lot more hot and humid here, But I like the heat so I don't feel it will be too unbearable for me, I look forward to seeing what it's going to be like here throughout the year.
I've included a few pics of the house for you, I haven't taken many pictures yet as I've been so busy trying to get some things done.
How have you been doing with your new place????????? Please let me know how all is going for you there!!

flowerlady, Thankyou! The hard part 'is' behind! And if I ever move again, I'll make sure to do it in a different way then how it was done this time!!! Live and learn, Experience is a good teacher!! lol!! I sure do look forward to what it's going to be like through the year this year!! :)

A pic of the old color kitchen...