Homeless in Cleveland

Well we are getting closer and closer to coming to an agreement and selling our home. As many of you know it is now under contract with a nice local couple. I think they'll make great neighbors for those of you we are leaving behind.

We are a little miffed at the work they want us to do on the house before we leave. Mainly the electrical. Electrical is obviously not their inspector's forte. Some of the changes they've asked us to make might actually make the house more dangerous. But how do you say that when you're talking through realtors and inspectors? "Hi mr. inspector, you don't know what you're talking about. That book you read was probably 15 years outdated." (sigh) But now we've agreed to hire an electrician to "fix" it. Ironic that the electrician has to hire an electrician.

They've also asked us to move the wood in the garage so that they can check for bugs. Even though their 7 days for inspection are up. We were going to just leave it for them so that they could enjoy fire and wine like we did for so many years but I guess we'll be getting rid of it before then. Anyone want some nicely aged hardwood firewood? Were we able to talk to them face to face I'd save them the trouble. Yes there are bugs in the garage. Ants, moths, worms, spiders, just about everything but termites and anything that requires a tropical climate. On a good day you might even find a skunk, racoon, rabbit, stay cat, opossum, neighbor kid or 14 point buck in the backyard too. A pair of doest ate the heads off of all of my tulips in the back gardens (or the buyers tulips I should say) last weekend. See previous posts for pics.

Anyway as the title of this blog suggests, though we get possession of our home in Cherry-mort City on June 6th, I still have to work in Cleveland for 3 weeks after we leave Hyde Park. (maybe I'll sleep in the garage when the new buyers aren't looking) So I'll probably be doing a lot of driving and missing my baby girl.

I guess this whole home selling thing is like one of my favorite African prverbs. "When you pray for rain you also pray for mud..."

Anyway, I'm done rambling for now...Love you all!

Sarah