A TINY HOME COMMUNITY COMES TO WIMBERLEY

The Muses and I have long been enamored with the new ideas popping up for nursing home alternatives -- ingenious ideas for aging out. We especially like the ones where friends band together and each build their own small home on one piece of property. We know it's not the place to be when you can no longer do anything at all for yourself, but it could be a great way to maintain your privacy and dignity up until that point, while still having help at hand in those temporary times of need. Needless to say, when Spirit Woman said she had seen a flyer mentioning a place called Hummingbird Lane Tiny Home Community, right here on the edges of our little town, well, of course we had to go check it out. So, we sent a message to owner Rose Burke-Duncan, and she agreed to a meet-up.

We expected to get maybe 10 or 15 minutes of her time. Instead, she spent the entire morning with us!

This 12-acre property has four sites, two of them already occupied. Turns out, however, she owns more property in the same community, and when she finished showing us this one, she was kind enough to show us that as well.

This is where she built her own not-tiny-but-small rock house, every stone gathered by her from this property.

She will soon have this house rented out, as she recently remarried and they have nine kids between them, so they're going to need a bit more space when everyone gets together -- especially when the grandkids start coming! Not only did she offer us a peek into the house...

she also gave us a tour of her bountiful garden and orchard...

and sent us home with pockets full of peaches, as well as some great tales about her amazing, wild, adventurous life!

She's nearing completion on a tiny house for this property as well, which she plans to rent out. Could it be yours? Contact her at zenroze@gmail.com.

P.S. Did I mention that both of these properties are in a community with river access?