Preparations to move are going surprisingly well. J worked this weekend and I packed like it was going out of style (and believe me, packing is
so last year). We are actually in very, very good shape. In fact, I plan to spend the evening reading
The Red Tent for my book club - with no frantic moving preparations in sight.
J is pre-signing on both houses tomorrow because he has to work on Thursday morning. Wednesday morning we have our final walk-through on the new house and my mom flies in that evening. Thursday we will have both closings. Friday we move!
Last Wednesday the buyer for our current place moved some of her belongings into our garage and dining room. Actually, "some belongings" is misleading. Her entire house is in our garage and dining room. She had asked to just store some things here (she closed on her old place already and is staying with family for 10 days), but when she showed up with the moving truck, I told her to feel free to store as much stuff as would fit. It's not like we're using the space and moving
sucks. I would never wish moving twice in 10 days on anyone.
Friday morning I took advantage of Best Buy's annual electronics recycling program and got rid of 2 old laptops and a dead television. On the way back from the drop off site at their headquarters, I decided to drive past the new house (amazingly, only the first time I had driven by the new house just for the hell of it in the 2.5 months since we went under contract!).
Now, we knew that the gutters were full, needed to be cleaned out ASAP and then desperately needed leaf guards (2 large Maple trees on the property - one in the front yard and one in the back). But when I drove by on Monday I saw that recent heavy rains had caused the gutters to overflow and stain the front stucco with the tannin from the leaves. Ugh. The seller has now agreed to clean out the gutters before closing. We will try and clean the front of the house and we were already planning to paint due to some old stains. I've read some mixed reviews on painting stucco, but we don't have the funds to restucco the house right now. So the plan is to find a paint color that closely matches the natural stucco and only paint the front, which we can easily do ourselves and won't be a major undertaking to maintain and re-paint when necessary.
I'm just excited that I won't have to spend next weekend cleaning gutters!
