New update. In the string of post there's a story of my wife prior to marriage and after. Her friend's family would invite her along. She has stayed in regular contact. A few months ago her friend called and told my wife about a family friend that would be selling their home to move to assisted living. We drove down to the coast. Mainly to visit with my wife's friend and her husband but met the lady that was going to sell her house. My wife was raised near the coast and absolutely loves the lifestyle and beaches. The house was built by the owner and her husband in the 70's. It has a few upgrades but very little. In the process she disclosed all the repairs needed from new roof, new windows and new a/c system. When we left we gave her my best very cheap cash offer. I explained my offer to her and was not expecting any further contact.
I was not looking to add a house nor move. My wife has, was and is. Well, at the end of April I received a call from the owners daughter asking if I could adjust my price up to help her mother with the new arrangements. My wife and I did raise the offer but not nearly what was asked. Again, I assumed they would find a better offer. Several days later I received a call that they would accept our offer. We flew down since they were wanting to close asap and purchased the home. In the interim my wife was discussing with a realtor friend of hers the situation and by the next week, her friend and husband was purchasing our current home. The odd side to this is that everyone but us were in a hurry. Long story short we have two weeks to move from our current home to a coastal home in the next two and a half weeks.
My wife is excited for the move but sad to move so far away from friends. I'm really indifferent.
This past weekend we drove to the coast and brought items down to the home along with tools. It's an odd Floorplan. The entry, den and kitchen are one level. Up five steps and there's three bedrooms and two baths. At kitchen and entry way there's five steps down to laundry room, a bedroom and bathroom. Up a large driveway is a RV/boat awning in front of a three car carport. Large front yard. Out the back door by the kitchen is a large concrete pad with a wood deck off the end to a large sloping back yard. The fence around the yard is a four foot cyclone link fence. No privacy and no pool.
I am strictly doing this for my wife. We spent that Thursday and Friday cleaning and disinfecting. It took two days to get the old people smell out. In those two days we discovered we were surrounded by older people that have lived in their home for a long time. We felt like children around them. Next door is Elijah, goes by Eli. He retired from the local military base years ago and never left. His wife is in poor health and in a assisted living. He is a shorter dark black man in his 70s but according to him, healthy as a horse. The neighbor directly behind is a close friend of Eli. They cook out and fish together. He's the same age roughly, Daniel, goes by Dan. His wife is super sweet, Betty. She baked us cookies and brought them over while we were cleaning. Fortunately, my wife was mostly dressed when she came over.
My wife had on her sleeping attire of large boxers and her somewhat sheer tank top tshirt. Betty did not miss a beat. When my wife went to excuse herself to put something over her tshirt, Betty told her that was not necessary. She told my wife that her husband and Eli have been spying on her since we arrived. They talked for some time before Betty headed beck to her house. Dan is a retired engineer from the local shipyard. On our opposite side is Jose and litty. We only spoke to them in passing. They appear to be younger in their 60s. All other surrounding homes have privacy fences.
Friday night we were exhausted from the deep cleaning. We were sitting outside in the back yard relaxing. After dark my wife went to shower. We were sleeping on a blowup mattress. I'm looking as she turns on the bedroom light. The empty room lit up. I'm sitting in a folding chair by a tree watching. It's the first time I actually noticed the strange size of the windows. They are abnormally large for the house. I'm watching her walk around and can see her from mid thigh up. I watch her strip naked and walk around. Then turn off the light and see the den light come on and kitchen. I'm watching her walk around naked as I smoke and drink.
I hear Dan come out. His back door slams when he exits. He talking to his tiny dog to go to the bathroom and lights a cigarette. He stops and looks at our house. The way he was looking I thought he was watching my wife but he refocused on his dog. My wife went back to the bedroom turning on the light. Dan stops talking to his dog and looks. I see her naked getting clothes from her bag. I look back at Dan and he's gathering up his dog heading to his door. I thought at his age he my not see as well and assumed she was dressed. I hear his door slam. I almost lit a cigarette. I see Dan moving to the corner of his fence and mine looking at our house. My wife is casually getting her shower items ready. The light comes on in the master bath.
Again I find it unusual that the master bath has such a large window. I'm looking at the entire vanity and mirror and the tub shower with no shower curtain. The only thing out of sight is the entry and toilet. My wife stands full frontal in the window looking out into the dark. Dan is watching. It's twenty steps from fence to house. We watched my wife shower and her post shower routine for some thirty minutes. When she left the bathroom turning off the light Dan went inside. My wife returned outside. We sat talking till bedtime. Before I could tell her about Dan she asked if we had a good time watching her. I asked we. She said she saw Dan smoking and watching her so she gave us a show. That she did.
Next night Dan must have said something to Eli. After dark they were both talking at their respective corners of the fence for some time what seemed like waiting. When my wife asked me I said that I was pretty sure they were waiting. I could not go outside to see reactions or hear them. My wife said she gave them a similar show as the last and both stayed watching till she was done. When done I waited and went outside for a smoke and both were gone.
It was an innocent peeping experience. It will be a busy net three or four weeks. My wife is following movers down tomorrow and another move the next week. I'm unsure of my schedule but my make the week after with her.
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