The View From The Balcony

This is our first whole summer in the condo, or Connie as we like to call her. There was definately some lifestyle adjustment, but now I do not believe we would change anything. We love the building, we love Connie and we love our view from the balcony. Our condo faces a ravine. We are two wings of the building away from the road. There is a walking path just beyond the stone retaining wall. Then trees. And animals that we can hear at night. We have an OWL! In our backyard. Crazy.

At night, when I am lying in bed, I can only hear the owl and the coyotes. We used to live in a house with a back alley. Our bedroom was in the back. At night I could hear the cars go by on the major road that ran almost beside our house and the people in the backalley passing through or hanging out back there.

The people on this buiding are very quiet. One of our concerns about moving into a condominium was what if the people were loud and had parties, stomped around. What if we could hear our upstairs neighbour moving about. We thought for almost a year that the upstairs neighbour must be an old, old person who was bed bound, as we only hear something from upstairs when the cleaning person came on Thursdays. Turns out it's a 50'sh single man up there. Very active. That was our biggest concern. No issue at all. Sometimes you spend too much time worrying about something that might be. I think it would be wise to not worry about anything until it comes to be.

Over all this was a really good move. I can honestly say, I don't miss anything about living in a house. We are still giddy over the condo fairies and the gardners. Still giggle when I clean and it takes me an hour or so. And I have been doing the flowers up over the last couple of days. Four terra cotta pots and a pedestal plant. Begonias and impatience. No weeding!

Of course, if you know us, you know that we could not just move in and live with what is. Althought the previous owners had done a lovely job of decorating, we had to put our own stamp on the place and changed everything. You know us. You'll see what I mean soon.