new house

now that my parents are getting older, they've been fiendishly searching for a new, smaller house. The one they currently have set their sites on, an old ramshackled lean-to from the 1700's, is desperately in need of renovations. My dad, in one of his "silly" moods, after being stuck in MassPike traffic for 2 hours, described to me the renovations on our "new" house, should we move there.

-"there will be an opal door,...so that we can always find it"
-"the house will be painted chartreuse" (because he likes the word "chartreuse")
-"a powder blue trim"
-"and celery green shutters"


beautiful.