Crunch Time

I'm afraid I won't be here much to kick around this week. I'm faced with a compression of "must-dos" brought on by a combination of circumstances: our being in North Carolina from Thursday to Sunday buying the land and talking to builders, and our real estate agent being on a long-planned vacation during much of April. The Realtor is coming today at noon to photograph the house for his brochure and the online virtual tour, so I've got last-minute cleaning and re-arranging to do.

Plants have to be taken out of the bathroom upstairs--their sun room--and then cleaned up after.

The porch spindles need another coat of paint--I'll do that when it warms up this afternoon. They're ranged at the moment all over the deck out back, so they'll have to be put someplace out of the way for the picture, then moved back so I can paint them.

The front of the house and the porch floor need to be hosed down and washed of all the urban grime collected since the last time we did it, five years ago.

And somewhere in the middle of this I've got to schedule the 40,000 mile service on my car, to be completed by Thursday.

I'll try to check in maybe Wednesday...wish us luck!