Happy Holidays!

Hello to all dear friends and family!

Well, as many of you know, many changes are afoot in the Cox household! We decided that it was high time to move from our little cookie cutter house of 10+ years. We decided that we wanted to find a property that better matched with the things that are important in our world right now – having a more “walk-able” community, having a separate address where Barbara could have her office, having a little land to do some edible gardening on, working our way into an “intentional community/co-housing” space, of having others that want to spend time together there, etc…
So, we started looking a few months ago and found a property on Georgia Street that we loved – but someone else initially beat us to the offer punch. Well, Barbara and a number of her friends worked their magic, and the universe returned the property to us a few weeks ago (after in escrow for 8 weeks!). Thus, we will be moving to a three-on-one lot – 3928 through 3932 Georgia St, San Diego; Link: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=114605334561509999673.0004384bec27cefc191ae&t=h&z=13

The main house was built in I think 1907 (it may have been 1900). One building will be our home, one will be Barbara’s office, which we will convert into a two office center, and she will rent out the other to a complimentary practitioner, and the third will be a rental, hopefully for a community minded person(s) that would like to do a periodic get together for dinners, and other such fun stuff. We have room in the back for RV parking (perhaps a home for a foreign exchange person?), gardening, perhaps a yurt or other structure for gatherings, etc.

Since there are renters presently, the process will be a bit drawn out. Escrow should close by end of December, and then 30 and 60 days notice to the tenants, along with repairs (termite tenting, roof, foundation, along with a long list of odds and ends). So, we’re hoping to be “in” to live by sometime in late Feb or early March.

We’ve had some questions about our annual Christmas Eve Eve party – well, this year, it’s being moved out a bit in time to Christmas Eve, Eve, Eve *310 or so… and combined with our house warming party which will happen Hopefully in Early March. We’ll be doing the same ornament exchange, Carols, Egg Nog and Fondue, just a few months later. You should be able to get a REALLY good deal on your ornament at the after Christmas sales! 

For now, we’re living in the RV on Campland on the Bay which has been a mostly fun adventure, though compact, has lots of great amenities that we keep saying we’ll take advantage of when we have time, and aren’t doing escrow papers, scheduling inspections, working with contractors to get quotes, filing for change of use permits, etc… Will be doing Christmas at my brothers in LA, which will be fun.

In any event, this is the extent of our Christmas Letters this year!

Hope that you have a lovely holiday season, and that it is cheery and bright and full of joy for you.

Much love – Dave, Barbara and Delilah Cox