Whew, it’s been a busy week …
We’ve been unpacking boxes for the past 3 days. But it’s all good, last week I got a nice surprise. We’d been looking at a few houses out the local community surrounding Ft. Hood, and even saw a few that we might like to rent. Well, the military has a rule that you’re supposed to check in with the housing office before you sign a lease. So, like the good Airman that I am, I stopped by. To make a long story short, instead of giving me information about leasing in the community, they offered us a 5 bedroom house on post.
We took it.
So for now, our new “home town” is the Comanche II housing area on the western side of Fort Hood. It’s a big house, probably more room than we actually need. There is a park/playground almost right outside the gate of our backyard, as Jasmine (6 y/o) is pretty happy. And both the elementary and middle schools are within walking distance … although at .7 of a mile, Johnathan might argue that point.
I took a few pictures (just keep in mind that we are definitely in the “process” of our unpacking.
This a picture of the front of the house. There is a pretty nice storage area behind those 2 doors at the end of the driveway. And there is a small balcony over the front door (not sure what we are going to do with that).
This is the back of the house. We’ve got a big back yard, and two porches … one covered porch on the ground floor, and another nice balcony that’s actually big enough to put a patio set on.
The house is still generally a total mess, but we did manage to get a bare-bones living room together, so that at least we have somewhere to sit and watch tv.
… that was just half the room (it’s not that small). We’re still not sure what’s going in the back.
Finally, I wouldn’t be sitting here typing this if I hadn’t also set up a couple of our computers. lol, although one of Ana’s first goals is to replace my little desks with something not nearly so “ugly”.
Looks like Ana also has a few more pictures of the house on her flickr page
Ok, I gotta get back to unpacking. I hope to catch up with all of you again real soon.
til then, keep havin FuN!
Todd
hey Todd,
Congrats on the new digs. Looks nice.
I think it’s great that school is within walking distance. I walked a mile to school as a kid (or was it ten miles, through 3 feet of snow…) so .7 miles doesn’t seem bad at all. Good exercise!
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Hi Todd, just found your blog. Looks like a nice place you have there. What kind of rent would one have to pay for such a place?
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Congrats on the house…looks very nice! Enjoy following your blog!
I like the new house Todd, congrats. Nice big TV too (most important).
Greg
Wow what a very beautiful house. And the frontage its looks so very nice! Magnificent!
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Thanks Greg. I have my wife Ana to thank for the TV … and if she has her way, that will someday be the bedroom TV, to be replaced by an even bigger one in the living room.
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Hi Kath,
Thanks, much appreciated. I just popped over to your blog for a quick peek … lol, lots of doggie pictures.
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Hi Mikael,
In the military we get a housing allowance to help pay for renting a place off-post. When we live on post, we have to give up that allowance. In my case, it would be right around $1200 a month … so, I suppose you could say that’s what I’m paying for rent.
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Hey Steve,
Thanks buddy. lol, I didn’t think the distance was bad at all either … but to hear Ana and Johnathan, you’d think I was asking him to run a triathlon every morning. I used to walk everywhere when I was a kid. But, since I lived in Hawaii then too, I can’t honestly claim that it was through 3 feet of snow