Lovely, Jess, and the price! Oy.

So I was going to host Sunday dinner at my sister's house, with my nieces & some friends of theirs & my Dad, and round about 3 PM the urghy feeling in my belly graduated from mild discomfort to actual nausea. I ended up spending all afternoon on the futon, alternately sleeping and reading Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief.

Happily, my niece came by to pick up the pie & bread I had made, and the chicken I had bought to cook, so they all had a nice dinner. I had ginger ale and half a banana. :-(

I hope you feel better soon, 'suela.

Jess, that house is great! I'm floored at the taxes though. I thought metro DC was bad.

We have a house smaller than that and host big groups without a problem. It looks awesome! And reasonably priced!

That's a beautiful house, and that kitchen looks plenty big for entertaining, especially if things can spill over into the living room and/or the patio.

Ugh, feel better, Consuela.

Very nice house, Jess! Walking to Metro North would be a huge selling point for me.

What a great house, Jess. The layout should work fine for large gatherings. Lots can happen with tray tables and card tables in inside weather and plenty of outside room for good weather. Library, and transport access! Price looks great to this Floridian, but the taxes are way higher than here.

Monday Monday. Yeah, that.

Every other day of the week is fine!

The thing about some suburban communities I don't like is the cookie-cutter houses, and here's why: I was reading a local news station's website this morning, and there was a headline of "1 Dead After Shooting at Home in [Large Northern Suburb]," with a picture of the home in question, and it looks EXACTLY like my cousin's house, and my cousin does in fact live in Large Northern Suburb. So it freaked me out in the time it took for me to click on the story and see what street it happened on, which was NOT my cousin's street.

The thing about some suburban communities I don't like is the cookie-cutter houses, and here's why: I was reading a local news station's website this morning, and there was a headline of "1 Dead After Shooting at Home in [Large Northern Suburb]," with a picture of the home in question, and it looks EXACTLY like my cousin's house, and my cousin does in fact live in Large Northern Suburb. So it freaked me out in the time it took for me to click on the story and see what street it happened on, which was NOT my cousin's street.

I'm glad it wasn't your cousin's house. We were visiting a friend once in one of those planned communities where all the houses look exactly the same. We knew our way back to the street, but I couldn't remember the house number, and if I hadn't recognized her car in the driveway, I never would have been able to tell one house from the other.

I mean, the odds of it being my cousin are astronomically low, but when the picture was of a house that is the same model (is that the right word? design?) that they own, it was a bit unnerving.