Well, let me start out by saying that Dreams Really Do Come True!
Twice a week, we pass an old, abandoned cottage in downtown Morro Bay on the way to my daughter Nikita's ballet class. It is tucked away under a huge pine tree and the gray, faded paint blended in so well with the shadows that it was easy to miss. But once you see it, you never forget it, or so it was with me. Several times I stopped by and peeked into the pane glass windows to see a sad, abandoned shop filled with junk, peeling floors and blackened walls. But the architecture was great and the remnants of the gingerbread trim that I could see through the windows were enough to make me fall in love instantly with its potential. 
At ballet one afternoon, I told the other mom's about the cottage, when one of them said, "That's my father-in-law's place!". Serendipity, for sure...
One thing led to another. doors miraculously swung open, hurdles disappeared into thin air and the cottage has become my newest project as of April 15,2010. My goal is to bring it back to life as best as I can. It's going to take an awful lot of work. I have very limited funds. I am using my college loans, investing them as it were, in our future.
But, with the way this thing has been going, it sure seems like it's one of those 'meant to be ' things. We can only give it our best effort and believe...
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