The entire subdivision… [Travel day]

was decorated like this. Large homes; elaborate lighting — clearly an affluent neighborhood. (Zillow estimated value for this home? $2.1 million.) We spotted this area on our way to-and-from a restaurant in Hudson, Ohio (The Brew Kettle), from our hotel in Streetsboro, Ohio.

Working on finishing out December 2023.

Random observation. I wish there were some universal convention for tagging: space, hyphen, or nothing. Example: [ christmas lights (372) ] [ christmas-lights (58) ] [ christmaslights (48) ]

• Would return to the restaurant, but the hotel maybe not: the pillows were awful.
• Zillow page for this home (4 bd; 6 ba; 7,900 ft²; 2022 taxes, $27,226!)

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December 28 posts
  1 year ago: “Hotel photos [Travel day]”
 2 years ago: “Safely home [Travel day]”
 3 years ago: “First [balance] ‘bike’ ride outside”
 4 years ago: “No progress this month…”
 5 years ago: “Morning run” (Guy in the middle no longer in the picture…)
 6 years ago: “Fire in the Hole!”
 7 years ago: “Rich”
 8 years ago: “Cousins (‘Phamili’ Day again!)”
 9 years ago: “Grace and Neal (newly engaged)”
10 years ago: “Life is full of hard choices!”
11 years ago: “Visiting Grandma & Grandpa…”
12 years ago: “♫ ‘Take Sominex tonight and sleep…’ ♫”
13 years ago: “Miner’s Den, Royal Oak, MI” (still in business!)

[Thom Mitchell]

@danette 7,900ft² and “only” 4 bedrooms. I have a hard time imagining the type of homeowner or family, and their daily lifestyle for a home with this many square feet.

[Mags]

Beautiful!

[PhotoCrazy]

Wow!

[Danette Thompson]

@rhoing Beautiful home and decorations. Often, they are just "normal" people. My husband's old boss had a house that was over 8000 sqft. He threw amazing Christmas parties with catered help and Santa arriving via helicopter. But he was a very down to earth person and he made his own wealth.

[Thom Mitchell]

@danette I don’t dispute that “normal” people live in such houses, but what is their day-to-day use of the spaces in such homes? Do they have that “capacity” for 2-, 3-, 4-times a year parties? This particular house seems to have been built by the current owners so there are no photos to give us a sense of how the 7,900ft² are allocated to various rooms…

[Danette Thompson]

@rhoing I’d probably wonder more about the homes that are 12,000 sf or more. I realize there are gyms, offices, theater rooms, maids quarters…Still, a number of rooms would be rarely used.