![]() That said, of course there are some things that we really do need. After a couple decades of doing application design and development, I can smell an over-engineered problem pretty easily, and lemme tell you: baby-having stinks of over-engineering to high heaven. ( I can see the irony.) My style is more of a do it lean, do it yourself, keep it simple aesthetic. But it just doesn’t sit right for me, I do not like collecting material possessions. And naturally each parent found those one or two lifesaver items that they will insist we need… and there’s curiously little overlap there, so if we listened to all that, we could open our own baby store with all the stuff we’d accumulate. All the recently-minted parents have bushels of baby goods they’re looking to ditch… erm, hand down. The baby shower tradition (a rather uniquely American one, I’m learning) is for the mother to be downright smothered in a pile of baby stuff, essential and frivolous. Every baby-stuff-selling store has a list of Must Haves that is a mile long. Every baby website has a hundred (sponsored) products to shove at you. I can see that it would be easy to be let yourself be sucked right into the tumbling, rumbling avalanche of YOU NEED THIS that follows a positive pregnancy test. It turns out my clean, agile, software developer livin’ is helping me stay sane as we move into parenthood. Humu’s take on Forest Creek: “First it was sad, then it was cute, then it was weird.” It’s like your life turns into one big turducken.” And I don’t have high hopes for the forthcoming townhouses, but who knows? Anyway, totally worth checking out from a “this was a crazy idea, I wish they had succeeded” perspective.Īs we were looking at the most thoroughly themed structures, I said to Humu: “Imagine living here and putting a tiki bar in the basement. Sadly, the newer construction there isn’t anywhere nearly as over-the-top as the amazing building (and separate garage) at the end of South Shire Lane. Be sure, though, to get out of your car, look at the map they’ve posted, and walk along the path behind the houses among the ponds (stocked with fish), tiny amphitheater (maybe a sock puppet show would be at home there), “secret” doors, and a few other treasures. But if you’re in central Oregon already, you could do worse than to kill 20 minutes on a sunny day stopping by South Shire Lane and Ring Bearer Court to see this sadly half-finished but gloriously half-baked vision. I wouldn’t make a road trip to Bend just to see Forest Creek (aka The Housing Development Previously Known As “The Shire”). I’ll just add that eventually a company purchased the whole development and building is starting again, although without the same wacky awesome commitment to theming. It’s a sad story, so we’ll gloss over it and get to our experience today. The Shire was never completed because it went bankrupt when Bend’s housing market collapsed.
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