Casa Cielo is the third name we've come up with for the house. Hopefully, it will be the last.
The original name, Casa del Sol (House of the Sun), was something I came up with, a name that worked well for a house in the far west Texas desert. The attached smaller casita, once remodeled, was to be Casita del Luna (Little House of the Moon). Imagine our disappointment once our realtor (and now friend), Pat, informed us that there was already a rental known as Casa Mirasol with a casita of similar name to ours. Imagine that Google never picked that up!
So, we scrambled to find a new name for the house so as to avoid confusion among visitors and stepping on the toes of others in the community. We came up with an interim name, DiscoverMarfa House. Neither of us liked the name, but it wasn't like anyone elses, and we had the domain name.
A few weeks ago, I went to my friend Kris's house on a Saturday morning, where I had a delicious cup of coffee. It was some sort of Starbucks blend, with "cielo" on the label. Cielo, in Spanish, means "sky" or "heaven", and Marfa and Big Bend are definitely heavenly places under a very big and beatiful sky. A Google search and several conversations left us confident that this is a good name for our house.
And, Casita Tierra will follow one of these days.
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