As of today I have 337 days until retirement from Sinclair Community College.  I didn't particularly have any plans for retirement.  I thought I would teach the occasional class at Sinclair and stay in my condo here in Dayton, Ohio.  Then my sister Trish started talking about retiring somewhere close to the ocean and close to each other.  She did the first scouting with her friend Mark and fell in love with Bluffton, SC.  It is just interior from Hilton Head. 

Trish and I went down last August to take a look at Sun City Hilton but it was really just an excuse to visit Bluffton.  I wasn't the least interested in a retirement community.  I certainly didn't think I needed all those swimming pools and walking trails and lakes.  I wasn't expecting how beautiful it was or how many things they had there that I was interested in doing - cards, crafts, theaters.  The craft center with beading, quilting and ceramics sealed the deal as far as I was concerned.  I know I will be a lot more active there in retirement than I will in Dayton.  And that doesn't even take into account the weather.

 In May I took another visit to Bluffton to be on the ocean and to find a house.  I did find a house but was reluctant to post anything about it until it was officially mine.  So here is my house. 

Take a look at the view from the Carolina room. There is a lagoon on one side and a park like area out the back.

The rest of the pictures of the interior have the previous owner's furniture.  I am going to go down soon and I will take some pictures of the empty rooms and we can watch it as it comes together.  Here is the floor plan though.  My unit is actually a flipped version of this.  And it does have a screened in porch.