FRONT PORCH POST - ABOUT FIVE HOUSES DOWN FROM ME - ....A COUPLE CAT PHOTOS - A BEAUTIFUL KITCHEN AND OTHER STUFF

 The  people who own this gingerbread house are rarely are here - this is a second home and it seems they only come on holidays.  The woman is friendly and waves as we pass whenever she is outside.  That's all I know about her.  She does seem to decorate as each season changes so it's interesting to see what she puts up on the porch.  My house is about five houses up the road on the same side of the street .

We have been talking just a touch about maybe it would be better to buy a cabin and get some equity instead of paying rent.  Probably will not do this because I have often said I never want to own again.  I've gotten in the habit though of looking to see what is for sale in our area.  I happened to come across this beautiful kitchen below in a house that only costs 164,000....But..it's only a 2 bedroom and we need 3  - and if I move again it will probably be to try somewhere else - like a different mountain town ...  We stayed put for almost 30 years before and now I've lived three different places since 2010 and rather like moving every  two or three years.

Beanie likes to sit in her little basket and watch "Mama" cat when she stops by for a meal.  Mama's boyfriend has been showing up every morning and meowing at about 7:00 for his meal - it actually sounds like he is saying "hello"...  Mama cat looks up and usually just ignores the fact that we have a cat in the house now.  Snow is melting almost gone on the deck but still in the yard.

God, I hate that red lamp.  It's one of those things that I think I'll replace or move somewhere else and I never do it - and never think about it until I see it in a photo , yuck.

This other lamp I leave on for Beanie - she likes the heat from it as she sits in her basket.

She is so adorable.  She sits and watches life happening in the house.  We had three of my sons up on Friday and their kids.  She did not know what to do with all the people in the house.

These next two pics I saw on FB - this is the solar observatory covered in snow up in Big Bear - i thought it was an awesome photo.  

Another beautiful photo of our recent snow I came across.

This is the rim highway we are on so much - traveling either up or down the mountain.  Every so often the clouds are such that we are above them and it looks like you could step right off onto the clouds and swim.  We have our own cloud Ocean up here.  This is about 5000 feet altitude right here so it would be a long way down if you fell  while trying to surf.

Big bear in the distance.  We were heading up to Rim HIgh School yesterday for our son's first basketball game.  We haven't been to a game in a high school gym since our oldest who is now 41, played basketball in high school.  It was actually really fun to see our grandkid play yesterday.

 He is number 5.

And I saw this photo in the news of the Golden Gate bridge - which reminds me of how much I miss visiting and watching our grandkids for our son who lived in San Francisco until this last summer when he moved to Washington. 

Such an awesome view of the bridge in fog.

Well I've done a fairly long post and now it's time to take my grandson and his friend who is staying with us until tomorrow - either bowling or walking the lake.