It is really sinking in that we are starting a new journey. Here is a brief update on Zebra Patterns!
We are down here in Leland NC, which is about 10 minutes from Wilmington NC. We are staying in my brothers home which is located in the same development as our new home. Our home is still scheduled to close on September 15, 2019. We will be adding a pool starting Sept 16 so we are hoping everything will be done and we will be settled by Thanksgiving.
I have included pix of our new house and a pix of our new business cards. The business card is what triggered this whole blog post. Wow, we are really not in Kansas any longer ToTo!
We are loving it so far. Love the biking on flat ground and being 15 minutes from the beach. We became members of a local theater establishment named Thailand Hall and have enjoyed live plays and documentaries at the historic hall in Wilmington. We bought in a place called Brunswick Forest. It is an amazing community with beautiful homes and lots of happy friendly people from the northern Eastern area. http://www.brunswickforest.com
As for Zebra Patterns we are now all set up in an air conditioned storage facility 1 mile from where we are living. I have included pix of our arrangements. We did go to Hershey to participate in Quilt Odyssey last week. So really it is business as usual but in NC.
Why did we relocate? We lived in a beautiful part of Maryland in Howard County. It was beautiful with amazing schools and a rich culture. It was also home to high taxes, winter snow and increasing traffic challenges. We have three boys that are in Ohio, Seattle, and NYC, so getting together with them is not a simple drive away. The nest is truly empty and it was time for a change. The new home will have an office for Gary (Zebra Central) and a MUCH smaller studio for me above the garage.
It’s been great to set off on a totally new adventure, but certainly not without challenges. Moving a 5 bedroom home on 3 acres and an intensive inventory from Zebra Patterns is not a simple feat! I have said it before and I will say it again – if you have any notion of moving someday start packing NOW!!!! OMG! We packed all boxes and moved at least 2/3 of the load ourselves! That was CRAZY! The movers moved the furniture. It is done now – one more move from storage to the house!
How do we collect so much junk? OMG! We did our best to weed out the excess. I look forward to unpacking and ridding myself of more. So that is the Gabel/Zebra wrap up. If you are ever considering relocation to warmer and more affordable region and would like to visit our new much smaller 3 bedroom abode – COME! We would love to show you around. Keep fingers crossed for an on-time closing. – Debra
Zebrapatterns by Debra Gabel 