Today's plan

Got the keys at 7:00 last night, so I didn't go to say hello to The Dump. My plan for today is pretty much the same as what I had planned to do yesterday. I'm going to try to leave work just after lunch to spend the afternoon up there.

Grrrrr......

It's officially recorded at the county clerk office and now belongs to me, but that nasty Listing Agent isn't returning Nora's calls to arrange delivery of the keys. Nora said the title company is sending the paperwork to her office this afternoon and Nora asked him to be sure to get the keys and send it with the paperwork. I guess I won't be able to do anything for yet another day... *sigh*

Finally...

The big day is finally here--I should get the keys to The Dump sometime this afternoon!

Too bad it's a Tuesday and I have lots of work to do this week so I can't go spend every waking minute at The Dump. However, I do plan to spend a few hours there everyday this week. My street's trash day is Friday and I'd like to have all the apples picked up by then so I have an empty can for the weekend.

I bought rubber gardening clogs at Target this weekend so I can fearlessly wade through the apples in shoes that I can hose off. They are pink, were on the clearance rack (sometimes it pays to have big feet) and I LOVE them and all that they represent.

This afternoon will probably involve a run to Home Depot to get some gardening tools/supplies. Yard work is pretty much all I can do on my own right now, but I think it won't take much to perk the place up a bit so that it looks a bit more respectable--clean up the apples, prune the jasmine, deadhead the roses, rake the gravel back into the driveway, pull weeds out of the driveway, pull out dead plants--that sort of thing. I may plant some bedding plants in the next few weeks just to give it a splash of color and the appearance of tidiness.

I'd like to get a couple contractors out there this week and get the big stuff going pronto, but with all the delays and uncertainty about when it was actually going to close, I haven't gotten any on the sched, so they may be all booked for the rest of the week at this point. We'll see!

In any event, I'm really glad to finally be moving on to the next chapter of this saga. More pictures (and way fewer words) to come later this week!

News flash!

I just talked to Nora--the condo sale recorded today. Yay! She's checking to see if the house sale recorded today too. It might have since the check got there early enough. I'm not holding my breath though...

I also told her that if there is anything in the shed tomorrow, I will be loading it into my car and driving it to the listing agent's office for delivery. There better not be a dead body in there...

eeeeew!

Silver lining

I was really bummed out that I didn't get the keys on Friday, but after it rained ALL DAY on Saturday, I don't feel so bad. I wouldn't have been able to do the yard work I had planned to tackle, and there isn't much inside work for me to do right now. The rain gave me a nice chance to curl up with my knitting that I haven't touched in weeks (months?) and generally decompress after all the weeks of moving-induced activity.

I'm staying optimistic that all will progress as planned this week--condo will close today, house will close tomorrow and I'll be on my way. Stay tuned!

No go

It's not closing today. Or Monday. I won't be closing on the house until Tuesday! I'm really disappointed and am thinking very unkind things about Condo Buyer right now that I'm trying very hard not to articulate out loud.

Looking good

It's looking pretty good to close today. Nora said late yesterday that all the paperwork is in place and it just needs to go to the county office to record. That will hopefully happen by noon, but I won't get the keys until later in the afternoon. In that case, I'll be able to unload the patio furniture from my car, but won't have time to do much else. I'll have a busy weekend ahead of me though!