Hello again, summer is here in the Pacific NW. A lot to discuss on this posting! I’ll begin with an updated medical, I am 5 weeks post op with my new shoulder. I can’t imagine the procedure going any better than it has, Chris has been wonderful, with my arm in a sling 24/7, she has had to shoulder (sorry for the pun) much of the responsibilities around the house and yard.. Don’t exactly know what’s ahead of me with regards to PT and continuing to strengthen my right arm, hopefully, I’ll get to abandon the sling!
It has been a very busy spring. As I mentioned in the last posting, we have put the house up for sale, we listed the house with Matt’s aunt, Roberta, she has been fantastic. Roberta and Kim staged the house for us and took some amazing photo’s for our listing page. I’ll include a picture of the for sale sign in the yard! Of course the real estate market is not good, interest rate are over 6% which affects the amount of buyers. To our advantage, it also affects the number of listings available because people don’t want to sell their place only to deal with high interests rates on a new home. We had 1000’s of people review the listing on line but only a couple of iffy possible buyers until we got a call from Roberta regarding a couple from Seattle. We knew right away there was some genuine interest, they drove over here from Seattle during the busy 4th of July weekend holiday just for a drive by. We went down to Carole’s as they ended up spending 4 or 5 hrs carefully looking at the property which concluded with Merle escorting them inside the house. They came back 5 days later with Roberta for another lengthy visit and then right after the 4th of July, we received an offer and we have accepted!
Now comes the hard work of saying goodbye to this beautiful home with all the wonderful memories here. So many memories of friends over for drinks and dinners. so many family visits, many of them on long holiday weekends. We know we will never replace this house, but we’ll create new memories in Spokane. Chris and Carole leave for Spokane tomorrow. It’ll be Christal’s 3rd trip over and Carole’s first. Jim will show them 7 homes over two 1/2 days, I’m hopeful they’ll see something they both like. Meanwhile back home, more packing and cleaning. It’s a good time to consolidate, we’ve donated a lot to Habitat for Humanity and made several dump runs. Movers come Aug 17, closing date is Aug 25. We’ve made a lot of progress, I think we’ll be ready!
Family is doing good. Ben and Matt are busy making improvements to their new Palm Springs home. Ben is getting ready to run a marathon in San Francisco this coming weekend the day before his birthday! There could be a major change at work for Ben, that will have to wait for the next blog. Travis is hanging in there, working at Amazon and hoping to find a small place of his own. Jake, Em & Grace are great, they are excited for us to move over although Grace is not happy about me selling the tractor. On her summer break now, Grace will be going into the 4th grade this fall. On a very sad note they had to put Tucker down. That’s always so hard, this is Jakes first dog he owned. Tucker was a great dog, best catcher of a ball I have ever seen. He lived a long and happy life but he’ll be missed!
