

Our home will soon become a part of our collective past. A picture or two in a scrap book, a setting for various stories and anecdotes, a fantastic memory.A wonderful couple came into our lives a few short weeks ago and decided they wanted our home. They are caring, intelligent, and loving. They are the archetypal embodiment of exactly who we hoped would make this old house their home. They will love it as we have, treat it with the respect its age deserves, and usher it into the future where it will find yet another young, intelligent and energetic couple to raise. We had originally intended this to be the home in which we would grow old. The home our children would come back to during college vacations and then, later, work vacations. Our "permanent address". A place where we would stay until we need stay no more and then pass on to a fresh young family. Our plans and lives have changed and we are simply passing the house along a bit earlier than we originally intended. Our new home, Good Omens, will take us to places our old home never could. During the next many years, we will sail past some of the most beautiful and magnificant locations this planet has to offer. A house can do many things, but it cannot take you safely through the Earth's oceans. Our placement of "home" has now begun the accelerated migration from brick foundation and wood frame to fiberglass and dacron. It's a strange and disorienting process, but like everything else, it will pass, and at the end of this short journey we will find ourselves eager to depart on our new life's adventure in our new home, Good Omens.
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