Eagan Home for Sale

The Classic Rambler Walkout, Updated…

A suburban retreat, close to nature in Southeast Eagan
with a lower level suite can function as separate residence,
ideal for a larger family,multi-generational living, or rent lower level out for extra income.

5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths,
2 garages feature 3.5 stalls/ workshop with lots of storage
large corner lot
quiet neighborhood
1/2 block from park

even a prayer garden!

offered at $319,000

Interested in more information or a tour? E mail eaganbanker@yahoo.com

Here's are details with pictures

The Home.....

Main Floor

Front Deck entry from landscaped front drive
Eastern exposure for sunny mornings reading the paper
Daytime shade in summer

Formal Living/Dining Room
Large picture window overlooking landscaped yard
New carpet
New entry flooring
Pocket door to kitchen

Eat-in Country Kitchen
Newer fridge, stove, dishwasher
Classic wood cabinetry
Butcher block center island with gas stove
Newer flooring

Great Room adjacent to kitchen (added in 2007)
Vaulted ceilings
Recessed lighting
Gas fireplace with ceramic surround and oak mantle
Whisper-quiet Mitsubishi wall unit A/C
Sun-drenched- six large windows overlooking expansive backyard
French doors opening onto back deck and adjacent patio

Mud Room
Entry from kitchen
Both outside and garage access
Adjacent half bath with pocket door
Bath features washer/dryer

2.5 stall attached garage
Heated
Plentiful cabinet storage
Extensive shop area wired with 220v for welding
One stall has oversized door- great for RV, large truck, auto repair
New insulated windowed doors with openers

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 1 second view

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Sunny eastern and western exposures

third bedroom would be great as Study/Nursery/ Library

Full bath with tub/shower
Glass block window
block vanity/ separator
Linen closet

Hall coat closet

Lower Level Suite (walkout entry to front)

This suite would be ideal for inter-generational living- adult children returning home or older parents- close by but they have their own living space

Bedroom 4

Bedroom 5

Note: large egress windows

Full bath

tub/ shower

mirrored vanity
linen cabinet

extra storage under stairs

Additional eat-in kitchen with second family room
Sunny windows looking out on landscaped front yard
utility room storage areas

Private entrance and driveway- separate from upper level
Adjacent garden areas and walkway to meditation garden

Lower Garage
Extra deep with lots of storage capability

Heated
New insulated windowed door with opener

The Property...

2/3 acre
Corner lot
2 dozen mature trees plus landscaping
Well water for watering
Semi-shaded concrete patio- adjacent to deck and great room
Second patio surrounds eight foot city regulation-conforming firepit
25 by 25 ft vegetable/ flower garden
Adjacent storage/ work shed with electricity and land phone line
Two decks- front (entry) and rear (great room)
Tree shaded meditation garden with labyrinth
Small, secluded neighborhood - extra quiet
District 196 schools-Pinewood Elementary .61 miles away

Close to nature

½ block away from South Oaks park
Natural prairie area
Newer playground
Picnic tables
Game field
Fishing dock access to Hay Lake

10 minute walk from Lebanon Hills Regional Park
Canoeing
Kayaking
Hiking
Cross country skiing trails
Camping areas
Nature center and trails
Sand beach on Schultz Lake

Convenient to shopping
1 mile to new “boutique” Cub foods,

a short drive (3 miles) from Kowalski’s, Byerly’s, Kohl’s, Home Depot, Rainbow Foods, Eagan Town Center

Handy Access to main arteries

½ mile to South Robert Trail/ Highway 3
Connections south to Rosemount Cty Rd 42, North to Highway 149 and Interstate 494
Highway 52 less than 5 minutes away-
15 minute travel to downtown St. Paul with no traffic signals

A History of Home Care and Improvement

1976- Home constructed

1985- 2.5 stall garage added

1998- House re-roofed

2002- Major renovation ($25,000)
Living room, upper bath windows replaced
Glass block shower added to upstairs bath

New central heat/ AC
New oversized electric water heater
New carpeting
Landscaping improved

2004
New flooring- both bathrooms and upper kitchen
Second kitchen restored to lower level ($3000)
Lower residence rented out at $750/ month

2005
New downstairs kitchen flooring
11 new exterior lights with dusk to dawn low impact lighting
Sand volleyball court turned into meditation garden

2006-7

Major renovation/ additions ($80,000)
Unfinished breezeway between house and garage demolished
Replaced with mudroom with adjacent half bath with washer and dryer
Back deck demolished
Replaced with 14x20 ft great room
New soffits and gutters all around house
New Downstairs living area windows

2008

Two patios added to back yard- one adjacent to back deck, one with firepit adjacent to garden

2009
New main entrance storm doors-3/4 glass ventilated
New garage doors - insulated, windowed
Front deck rebuilt,
New roof on garage
New living/ dining room carpet and front entry flooring

2008 Taxes: $2789

Changes and Chances

All the beautiful changes and
chances
Through which the landscape flits and glances,
Till now, you dreamed not what could be
done
With a bit of rock and a ray of
sun

James Russell Lowell


Recently, it felt like not much was being done with my own changes and chances. Really kind of aggravated by the recent twists and turns of my life
I came across the traditional Roman Catholic collect for this past Sunday.

It helped a little.

For those unfamiliar, here is a translation:

O Almighty God,
who alone can order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men:
grant unto your people
that they may love the thing which you command,
and desire that which you promise;
our hearts may surely there be fixed,
where true joys are to be found.

My "dialogue with God" version:

Phil: "Lord , get me out of this...... temptation.... mess.... situation."

God: "I will.... when you come home to be with Me and not one moment before....
All you are experiencing now is prelude and instruction and practice in the school of Love....
until you become Love itself."

It's not only true that God works and walks with us
in every change and chance of this life.
We get the further grace of knowing and experiencing
how He uses those circumstances to turn our hearts to Him.

We never quite get there while here on earth.

I suspect even the desire to do so might be evidence,
alternatively, of spiritual pride or laziness.

In my own case it's a bit of both.
But then we are bid to turn our eyes heavenward,
to find out where our true Joy is found
to find our own "bit of rock and ray of the sun."

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Nature and Grace in the Workplace

One thing among many others I learned from my father in law was the handyman's axiom "measure twice, cut once." It's true in the spiritual realm as well.

Another axiom...the angelic doctor Thomas Aquinas declared "grace perfects nature."

Let's think about the two axioms together. For every action we take we need to make two measures, either consciously or unconsciously.

First, is what I am going to do in accord with the nature of who I am? Second, is what am I going to do in accord with the law of grace?

If the two appear to be in conflict, then we need to ask ourselves very carefully whether or not we are asking the right question.... or perhaps the right question in the wrong way. Conversely, if we aren't even asking ourselves these questions, we have lost our spiritual way.

That seems to be the case today when ethical decisions boil down to a relativistic "what's best for me" or when the questions AND their answers are driven by a compulsive need to assert one's "true" identity. I am a woman, I am gay, I am Hispanic,... you fill in the blank.

That sort of self-absorbed compulsion should not be a surprise. It happens when folks have concluded that there is no objective moral truth, nor AnyOne who cares enough to set boundaries. I am left to my own devices, to create my own reality, to decide who I am. and because there are no givens, affirming that identity and having everyone else affirm me becomes an obsession.

It seems to me, though, that the life of St Joseph under the title of "Worker" provides a sublime illustration of how both of these important questions can merge gracefully, and be answered in a single life. And that answer is the antidote to today's workplace malaise as well as the perpetual identity crisis.

Of course, Joseph's work as a carpenter (or more accurately in ancient terms, an artisan) , reflected his nature. Most of us have experienced the fact that some of us are born handymen- others not. But if we are handy with tools, we still intuitively feel that "yes!" SOMEWHERE in our lives, whether it be in the heft of a hammer, the beauty of a well composed symphony, or the symmetry of a perfectly balanced spead sheet.

But Joseph's hidden life as the teacher of Jesus, as the listener to God's whispering guidance, as protector of the Blessed Virgin Spouse, are pieces of his life which represent the perfection of his own nature under Grace.

One healing aspect of this Feast is the very fact that it does bring the two facets of life back together. Indeed, the feast arose out of the Church's felt need to respend to the plight of workers in their struggles to gain basic rights.

In that sense, St Joseph the Worker lays blessing hands upon the turmoil of our work lives, as he did on the labor struggles of the nineteenth century. Nowadays communal May Day demonstrations have given way to the supreme isolation of texting during meetings.

But, the basic bifurcation is still the same. We think that what we do for work is our work, not God's. And the answer to that unnatural split is in the sublime nature-grace unity of bringing our tools, our work lives, our hours of labor, to the altar of Grace.

St Joseph, Pray for Us!