Family Home on Lake Bridgeport: Pets Welcome!

I'm a citizen of the world. Growing up as a military brat, I attended 13 different schools in 12 years. I spent my first career in the USAF, living and traveling to dozens of countries. My second career as a Senior Executive for Siemens Wind Power I travelled the world and in retirement, the Wife and I travel 4-5 times per year. My time at home is spent fishing, boating, swimming, and bobbing when I'm not working as a volunteer Firefighter for our local Fire Department. We love the short-term rental concept, and this is our first attempt at it, using it to help my widowed Mother-in-Law to pay the taxes and maintenance on their lake house they built and lived life in for over 50 years.

I started coming to the property for my Wife's annual Family Reunion her parents hosted for 60+ years with 50 of them at this home. There would often be 150 people there for July 4th weekend each year, with many staying the entire week. Group dinners, potluck style, where all families brought their favorite dishes to feed the group. It is a rural area with the lake being the focal point in the spring and summer months. Boating, skiing, wakeboarding, wake surfing, kayaking, paddle boarding, swimming, floating, and general fun happen everywhere on this beautiful, clean body of water. There are over 11,000 acres of water so it's never truly crowded, even on holiday weekends. Fishing is king here with crappie, bass, catfish, and sand bass, all plentiful, and many people limit out daily. On weekends, you often smell fish fries going on in many yards, crawfish and shrimp boils, and since this is Texas, brisket and ribs in the smoker. You can be invited to join the party if you look hungry enough, so start working on your hungry face now. On holiday weekends, live band music floats across the water, and families splash and play up and down the cove. Activites which are truly the sounds of summer. While water activities may be limited to fishing, it is beautiful in the fall; only the sound of leaves falling breaks the silence. Watching the geese returning North and hearing them "honk" their goodbyes as they go, is something most people never experience. In the early morning, you can sit on the screened-in porch and watch the deer feeding and drinking from the lake behind the house and around the neighborhood.