Montreal Home listed!

We had a renter for the past couple months who did a great job paintnig and cleaning for reduced rent.

She had to move into low income housing, and so now I have met with the realtor and listed it at $79,900. PHEW!! With one more weekend's worth of cleaning and moving a hanful of things, we will be completely moved in to our Kimball home. Spring came surprisingly quick, we went from a snow day and 24 inches of snow less than 3 weeks ago to 80 degree, let's open the windows and landscape!

Dave has installed multiple carraige style yard lights, the deck set is out, the garage is halfway cleaned out and we have replaced the ceiling drywall in the family room. There is all new plumbing, the master bath is done, mnost of the electrical is done and we have our drywall supplies. 2 months from today is Mikhayla's graduation-and our goal is simple, family room painted and finished, all our belongings put away, a nice family gathering for her graduation party, and (fingers crossed) either an offer pending or accepted on the Montreal Home so we can get on with our lives...our new lives!

Kimball has been fun, we attended the town Halloween Party and Turkey Feed for the fireman, people have been kind and friendly, and the dogs love the short hike down to the pet store to get a turkey burger. Marshy the cat, is even more social, enjoying different rooms, basking in the sunlight in window sills...as well as socializing now with both pugs. The turtle even got a new tank, filter and basking lamp. Now that we can see our yard, we have many thoughts on installing ponds, rocks, waterfalls, flowers and much more-especially to help enhance my photography business!!

I can't believe how one year ago, my life was so completely defferent and we were headed in such a different direction!!

We're IN!

I fell horrible today, so it's a good time to plant here and update the ole blog....

My apologies, the holidays and life have kept me busy-and with good cause! We've moved in! Actually, we were in January 21, chineese new year, about a month over the date I had hoped, but the kids wanted to spend one more christmas at the other house and well, who could blame them? We moved without much help, Mikhayla's boyfriend Matt, Arianne and Adam came, and we got it done in 3 days. We still have some things there in the garage and Dave's fire extinguishers in the basement yet, but otherwise life has been good here in Kimball! I feel so content and happy, it's unbelievable!

We took out a small loan for about $20K and paid off the 5K we used to buy this, then $2K for appliances, $5K for furnace, got satellite, got some small bills paid off, property taxes and insurance, a killer Antique Kitchen Island, a new camera for me and a brand new Sears Craftsman Tractor/snowblower with all kinds of neat attachments...and we have about 1K left....so there you have it! Now I'm doing mini projects like paint touch up, decorating and looking ahead to the rest of the snow melting so we can investigate the yard!