Friday, September 2, 2016

A Check-in


I woke up early, like most days, with a very busy mind. Instead of laying in bed, I thought I would get up and check in with all of you.

As you know, Ward and I are buying a new house. Details along that front are progressing well, but still at warp speed. The bank continues to think of ways to ask for new paperwork, but so far we've been able to keep up with their demands.

Wednesday, we met with a contractor to talk about redoing the master bathroom in the new house. It's rather crowded. You have to sit on the toilet to get out of the way of the open shower door. We're hoping to rearrange the space a bit, so we can turn around in it. He's also going to do a couple of other things with vents and exhaust fans. In addition, we've scheduled a roofer to do a "tune up" on the detached garage roof, and talked to a window guy about replacing the bay window.

Meanwhile, back here we've been continuing to get rid of things. A huge load went out on Saturday and another one yesterday. There have been a few nostalgic tears when an object makes us think about the good times our family has had here. Oh, the house is all sparkly now since we've had it pressured washed. How's that to change the mood from being sentimental?

Well, I've overspent my computer time this morning. We're getting ready to spend a long weekend with my mother. We hope to leave on our long drive in 45 minutes, so I better get hopping. We're pretty well prepared, but the last minute stuff always seems to take forever.

Have a good Labor Day weekend.

Until next time...







12 comments:

  1. Safe travels. I hope you can let your brain take a break for a few days from all of the details surrounding your move (but if you're like me, that may be hard to achieve!). Thanks for keeping us posted.

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    1. My brain doesn't take breaks-both a blessing and a curse.

      Wally and Theo are with us on this trip and it's nice to be all together. And it's nice for my mother to see some grandkids

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  2. Have a lovely visit with your mother. Reading about your paperwork makes me so glad my son took care of all that on my house. :-)

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    1. Our broker finally told us that there is a lot more paperwork these days, so it wasn't just our imagination.

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  3. I hope your purchase goes through soon. Do you have a closing date already?

    Enjoy the long weekend with your mom and be safe on the road. I'm not sure where Hermine is going but it's going North.

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    1. Our closing date is September 15.

      We were supposed to get rain from Hermine back at our house, but not here at my mother's.

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    1. Thanks. So far, so good. The drive was uneventful and my mother looks good.

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  5. Enjoy your time . Ugh contractors. Hope you get it all completed before the move.

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    1. The contractor has a couple of other bids in and whether or not he gets those will determine whether or not we will be able to get the work done before we move. But that's the plan.

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  6. As soon as you mentioned the word bank, my heart sank. The bank robbed us of the buying experience because each time we got approval, they demanded more paperwork. They continued with these games right up to the day we closed, making us sweat the process and not even knowing if we had a house on the day of the closing.

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    1. Buying a house is the extreme experience in bureaucracy. I know we gave them same information many different times and it's all very frustrating.

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