Okay family and friends, if you want to remember Da Place as it once was, then don't look at or read my blog today. Don and I have heard there's a contract on the property, and it's apparently a fairly good offer, that's all we know and we stumbled upon that information. So we've watched the transformation from Da Place, to it's current regal status and thought some of you might want to see what the builder has done. He's still working on the landscaping and exterior of the house, and we have seen the inside, its very nice even though the cabinets and granite are a bit dark for my taste.
As you approach from the road, builder did keep
the foundation from our "carport", you can also see the new dock with deck!
The following photograph was taken from the deck area of the dock.
It's really quite nice, you can see around the bend of the lake.
The boat dock will hold two jet skis and a boat.
This, naturally, is the lakeside of the house:
Top floor is a bedroom, game room, bathroom, and a bedroom or study.
Middle floor, to the left is a bedroom and bath, the remainder of that level is the
kitchen, toward the back of the house, and then an open living room area.
kitchen, toward the back of the house, and then an open living room area.
The bottom floor can actually be closed off for a rental apartment, it's self-sufficient.
This last picture is taken from the top of the deck area,
and is looking across the lake to what was once the "deer lease".
Hoping the new owners will enjoy as much as the
Anderson and Davis Clan's did for some 50 years! Until next time ....
6 comments:
I visited the site the week before we went to Corpus and spoke to the builder and his wife. They told me that they had a good prospect and I didn't mention it because I didn't want to get your hopes up. Hope it goes thru.
I posted this to Lori. Craigs list can be a disaster as well as facebook.
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That may be the same address as the lake house, but it is not the lake house. It lacks the character, story, love, history, and memories the real lake house held. Our lake house wasn't pretty but it was part of the Anderson/Davis story and can never be replaced in my mind.
I can still smell it and see it. I can remember every grass burr, every scorpian, every spider, and snake ever encountered. I remember pulling in late on a Friday night and scurrying inside the house before a Mr. No shoulders got us. Running down the old nasty brown carpet steps, tugging on the worn out, warped doors, sliding the bedroom doors open and shut, spraying under the beds for bugs, turning on the A/C units, wearing shoes inside the house, heading to bed while the folks stayed up watching SNL, playing cards with the cousins, launching MY BOAT, watching MY BOAT almost sink at least twice, catching perch off the cracked dock, and dad w/ others floating said dock back off the bottom of the river following a flood.
I have several other memories as well but its late and I'm tired and I'm sure someone is crying by now.
That house maybe a house that sits on a lake. But it is not the lake house.
AMEN, Carin is right, it holds many, many memories and we'll always have them to cherish!
well, Carin you were right...I am crying!!! what a beautiful house that someone will enjoy but it will never compare to DA place.
Whoever buys it will wish they had our old trees to shade them at night!
I didn't even notice the trees were gone. To be honest, I didn't really look at the house. Boy is someone going to get sunburned!
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