As I told you in my Sold! post, I signed an Agreement of Sale a week ago. My feelings about the move are mixed...as guavejuice so accurately described them, "bittersweet." On one hand, if I stayed here until 12 January 2019, I would have lived here 35 years. I've put a lot of myself into the house to make it way I like it. I love my neighborhood. Even though ( Read more... )

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On Monday I spent several hours signing papers and discussing pricing with the real estate broker my son, John, recommended. Tom sold their house in Ardmore after they got back from Germany in 2011 and helped them buy a house in the Franklinville section of Philadelphia. I liked that house but despite being new construction...or because it was new ( Read more... )

I planned several home improvement/decorating projects for 2017 which I envisioned occurring between the time I got home from Florida in February and when I (maybe/probably/certainly) meet up with chering and tosca15 in August. Instead, they all seem to be coming to a head in about a three week span, starting today.

This is my front door:

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Not only is tonight the first night of Passover, but today was Earth Day. In honor of the occasion, I thought I'd show you a few pictures of my little patch of the Earth ( Read more... )

Last year, when we moved back home, my sister-in-law, Brenda, gave me a little planter that holds two little plants: a spiky green plant which may be a succulent and a leafy plant that looked like a sort of grass. I guess it looked like grass to my cats, too, because they ate it down to the two bulbs it sprouted from. The grass struggled back a few ( Read more... )