Want to See What We See At 3700 Collins?

   Colorado is a beautiful place to start with, but Castle Rock is particularly blessed. We're 6500 ft, a thousand feet higher than the Mile-High City. Several buttes surround us, including the one Castle Rock is perched on.

Then there are the mountains, from Pikes Peak all the way up to Long's Peak. And from our backyard on a clear day, we can see them all.

Whoo boy.

Karine, our real estate agent, just posted a video showing the view from our home, 3700 Collins St., drone-style. Take a look.

Add to this a home with all sorts of moneysaving features, like double-pane windows, warrantied Philip Hardie siding and xeroscaping. Compared to our neighbors, our heat, power and water bills are negligible. And we live in a non-HOA neighborhood in Douglas County proper, even though Castle Rock officially starts on the other side of our back fence. That means we don't pay extra property dues, nor are we forced to pay water bills (higher) or sales/property taxes (much higher) to Castle Rock. (Silver Heights is one of the very few 'suburbs' that has its own well. Three, in fact.)
     In other words, we get many of the benefits of living in Castle Rock, without the penalties.

View is included: no extra charge.

The house should be officially listed on Saturday, June 22!!!!


Progress report:

Floors upstairs are sanded, and first coat of refinishing added. (A second coat will go on before they're done Friday night.)

Flooring is done in living room/kitchen, laundry room and downstairs bathroom. It looks lovely.

Paneling downstairs will be done by Thursday night.

Just a little painting left -- plus carpeting.

Dead trees are down and being cut into lengths.

Garage is put back in order (somewhat), ready for us to load boxes into our new home -- which was in the shop, getting some repairs. We'll pick it up shortly.

Dumpster #4 is almost full, but still has room.  (We will bid it a fond adieu on Saturday.)

Still to go:

Power-wash deck, driveway and front porch.

Put stuff in trailer.

Brush and sticks leftover from tree-cutting will be dumped at the slashyard Saturday morning.

Trot empty freezer, three TVs and an old printer to the recycler.


The house looks beautiful. We, on the other hand, are scruffy, a little smelly and living off fast and restaurant food. (I never thought I'd get tired of pizza -- but I am.) Thankfully, because of friends Tommy and Chris, we have clean clothes on. And a place to sleep, thanks to other kind friends Tim and Elle. But the end is near.



Open House is early next week!

Our Yellow Roses of Texas are just finished blooming;
now it's on to the yellow Persian Roses (even older breed) and the red climbers.