Our home, The Cottage.

Margaret,

I found and bought this house a couple months before we met, but you immediately made your presence know, felt, welcome, and home; The Cottage was always ours, even if I didn't always see that. Yeah, it's my project, but it's our home, our first home. It's because of you that all of the greatest memories from here are joyous, important, inspiring, and meaningful. Your ideas and questions and encouragement have made massive changes to that fate of this house, and all for the better. We raised a dog from poor to good health here. We worked on our health together here. We lived through wildfire smoke, and driveway fire, and crazy ice storms here.

This house loves you.

I speak house now too. Just.. That's a thing I do. From remodeling. Don't think about it too much. The house loves you.