Just to keep you interested

It has been a couple of weeks since my last posting, so I thought I would write a little something to make sure my followers stay engaged with this blog.  The entries will be skimpy until we actually get close to going on the road.

The house has not sold but we did get our first offer just after my last posting.  The offer was very low and was not even close to what comparable sales have been in our area this year.  It appears the buyer was limited to a maximum loan amount that put our house out of his reach, but he tried.  From this offer we did learn that there are buyers coming into the area for the new Navistar Corp. facility nearby.  From what I read in the papers there is supposed to about 1500 employees at the facility that is about 10 miles from our house.  This buyer was one and we learned at least one other person who viewed the house was from Navistar.  To stimulate interest we did another price reduction, our biggest yet.  Hopefully someone will want a house for Christmas.

We did start the sorting process for all our “stuff”.  This meant taking everything out of the storage space in the basement and deciding whether to keep it, sell it, put it in the trailer or throw it away.  We needed to do this to get all the Christmas stuff out plus our daughter, currently living with us, is moving into her own apartment, so she will be taking a bunch of “stuff”.  I did rent a storage space to begin later this month so I will begin moving some things there to begin clearing the house out a little in preparation for our move into the trailer.

Meanwhile the weather begins to turn ugly for us.  This should be our last winter and it will be one thing that will not be missed.  It has been very nice living in the Midwest except for the winter.  From mid November until mid March it is like somebody covered the area with a gray sock.  You don’t want to go out because of the cold and snow is only pleasant for an hour or so until it turns mucky, dirty and gets all over the place.  Growing up in California it was always neat to go see the snow and play in it, but once you live with it, FORGET IT!  You have never seen a car get so dirty than after a snowstorm, then you go to a car wash while it is freezing outside, go figure!

OK, I have rambled enough.