Leap of Faith

The offer we have on the new house will expire the end of October so we've been thinking it is too perfect a house to lose so maybe we should go ahead and get the financing and buy it....BUT what happens if we don't sell our house????  Would it be any worse than owning recreational property???  We were planning on doing a river cruise to celebrate our special anniversary next year...couldn't we use the money we would have spent on a cruise and use that to finance the house payments for several months instead???  Anyway, we bit the bullet and had the house inspection done and put a down payment on it...NOW it's considered SOLD to us!!!!  Yikes...but we have faith that we were led to that house for a reason and if it's truly meant to be, our house will sell.  We've still got lots of time because closing date isn't until the end of January 2014 and we'll be moving in during the month of Feb.

Open House

Our realtor booked an open house for today so we've been busy all week taking stuff to re-cycling, getting a charity come and get stuff and taking a load of metals in to sell, re-organizing boxes so the house won't look "messy", washing and waxing floors & windows etc.  We pooped ourselves out completely but finally the house does look pretty good, so come in people and see, fall in love with our home and buy it!!!  Unfortunately it was a beautiful, sunny fall day and I guess no one wanted to go looking at houses....absolutely no one came!!!!  What a disappointment!!!

Our daughter, son-in-law and grand kids came later to deliver tickets for R's ukulele concert, plus I had found some jewellery I no longer want and thought the girls might like.  We'd planned on getting pizza or Chinese food for supper.  Son-in-law suggested that instead of getting take-out, we should go out, then I wouldn't have dishes to do!  Good idea!!!  I'm too tired to do dishes anyway, so off we went.  The food was very tasty and we had such a good time.  Because there were 8 of us we had to take two cars.  On the way home hubby and I discussed whether we should stop and get some doughnuts but thought everyone would be too full.  When we pulled into the driveway he mentioned it and next thing I know the guys took off and came back with a dozen doughnuts!

RV Show time Again

Thursday afternoon we went to our friends and he drove out to Abbotsford.  We made a couple of stops then went to this little place for fish and chips....yummy!!  Then we were off  to the RV show at the Tradex Center.  Thursday night it was half price night...so that was good.  I was more interested in shelters to cover our truck and trailer in our new place.  After always having our trailer stored in the shop, it's going to be hard to see it sit outside, especially in the winter so we want some sort of cover over it.  We looked at rigs too but I also sat in on a couple of the seminars....even met a few people we know from camping!

Because we do a lot of camping in the spring and fall, there is always a problem with condensation.  Last year we bought a small de-humidifier to plug in when we're camping.  Works really well but I feel it's a bit small for the area so we saw the same make, but a larger capacity model at the show.  It was on sale and they also had a promotion that if you sign up for their loyalty card at a cost of $40 you would get $60 off your purchase plus earn bonus dollars for future purchases....sounded like a good deal, so we now have a new de-humidifier!!!...I KNOW....we aren't supposed to be buying new things because we'll have to pack it to move, but this was too good a deal to pass up!!!!

Today #1 daughter and son-in-law came down.  He installed some new taps in the downstairs bathroom...the old ones were leaking, and she helped me disconnect the 2 old computers I have here and we even removed the hard drive from one of them.  Now we have to take them to the recycling center.  It sure gives me more room in here though!!!

More Fun and even More Work

After all the rainy days we had last week, Saturday was really quite nice and that was very good because our friends' daughter was getting married and it was an outdoors wedding.  We were all very thankful for the nice weather.  The bride of course looked beautiful and extremely happy...we wish the couple all the best!!

J&H have 3 children...one son got married in May, the other in August and now the girl got married in September.  They have had one BUSY summer and I warned them that the grandbabies just might all come at the same time too!!!

The wedding was at Peace Arch Park so after the ceremony we headed down to Bellingham to pick up some milk, eggs and cheese at Costco then went for dinner and to the casino for awhile...sure was a nice break from packing!!

This morning I went to my Ladies' Group at the church, came home and E&J came and we loaded up their truck with all the boxes of canning jars I had left and several boxes of household articles and clothes that I've been wanting to get rid of.  They're going to take them to MCC for me.  Apparently the MCC in Abbotsford is always on the look out for canning jars!!!!  The jars will get a good home and the money raised will help in the mission field...win-win situation!!!

Still Trying to De-Junk!!

We've been home from our little get-away just over a week now, but it feels like months!!!  We parked the trailer in the driveway to give us more room so we could start cleaning the garage...got a feeling the trailer is going to be out for quite some time!!!  Been filling up our garbage and recycling bins each week and took a truckload of stuff to the recycling depot as well.  We've also been busy selling stuff on Craig's List and I'm still giving away canning jars...I swear those things multiply whenever I turn my back!!!!  Getting excited about moving but we have to sell this place and I'm not sure whether to pray it sells fast because we probably won't be finished cleaning it out, but it would be nice to know when we'll be able to move....oh well, deal with it however it comes!!

We have done some fun things in the midst of all the work.  Yesterday we went to our church's Street Party which was really fun and today after the service we had a lasagna lunch which was really good.  It's also such a blessing to get the love and support of our friends!!  Thank you everyone!!!!

So Nice

Monday was Labour Day...most people were heading home from a long weekend, but not us....we hooked up the truck and trailer and headed out camping.  Border lineup was pretty busy but we have NEXUS so off we went.  Stopped at the casino because it was 55+ day.  Long lineup at the buffet so decided to try the in house Asian café instead.  First time we'd been in there.  There was no lineup, service was good and the food delicious.  We'll definitely go in there again!!!

Got down to Mt. Vernon campsite and found where our friends were parked so parked close to them.  Went shopping for a few groceries and some liquid refreshment.  Spent the evening with our friends playing "sticks"...a fun game.  I slept so sound that night.  Next day did very little and even had a nap in the afternoon....didn't realize how tired I was.  Went shopping a couple of times, relaxed, went to the clubhouse to check emails and work on a puzzle and got together with our friends.  We didn't care if it was raining, sunny or thundering!!!!  Power went out one evening but the lights stayed on....it felt weird but then realized we were on our battery power...neat!!!!

Sure was good to get away.  Now we're back home and back to the de-junking and packing!!!

End of an Era

Today the cousins moved out of Mom and Dad's house and the new people moved in.  Yesterday I was at the lawyers to tidy up the last few things and stopped at the house to give some stuff to my cousin.  It was SO HARD and emotional to drive out of that driveway for the last time!!