8 Willow Ln, Thompson, NY 12701

Description

It is the last week of August and the door has been open since June. The stream is going behind the house the way it has all summer. Everything you own sits within 30 feet of where you are standing, and not one piece of it is asking anything from you tonight.

That is what a house this size actually gives you. It takes almost nothing to run and it never turns into the project that eats your years, so your evenings stay yours and so do your Saturdays. Melody Lake is a few minutes down the road, 18 acres of water the woods keep quiet, and the stream that leaves it runs along the back edge of this lot close enough to hear through a screen in April. The road ends just past he...