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OMG, I can’t believe we’re doing another one!
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After last weekend I knew we needed to do another sale. Up at six really doesn’t sit well with me but I am doing it none-the-less.
Do me a favor and keep all appendages crossed that we clean out the house today.
(Groan) I hate mornings.
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Gremlins in the house
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We have a problem with gremlins in this house. Things disappear, reappear, and disappear again. Now I am missing a large tablet, several favorite pens, and a big package of double ‘A’ batteries. Therefore, I’m guessing our gremlins needed paper, pens and batteries.
Are our gremlins writers? Did they need batteries for their remote controls?
DH claims he hasn’t seen the missing items. Gavin and Patty don’t have thumbs so they can’t write and I have no idea what the pups would need with batteries.
If there were kids in this house, I’d know where the batteries went. I’ve known kids who were guilty of swiping batteries from parent’s remotes to power their stuff.
Usually, our gremlins return the borrowed items. I only need to be patient.
Do you have gremlins? What things do they borrow?
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A multitude of things
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My desk chair needs replacing. The hydraulics are dying and when I sit in it, it slowly sinks to level too low for my desk. It makes me look like a three-year-old trying to type at Daddy’s desk. Maybe, when we sell the house, I can afford a new chair.
Over the next two days, I need to make some posters and flyers for our last-ditch effort sale of the MIL’s stuff. We need the house empty so we can paint. Painters don’t charge as much if they don’t have to paint around furniture. Big surprise yesterday, one of neighbor’s came over to the house while G and I were there and bought $51.00 worth of stuff! Yay, more money for the paint the house fund!
We enjoyed a lovely PA Dutch creamy cucumber salad made from the cucumbers I picked a few days ago. They were delicious.
Things have cooled down here, a wonderful relief from the heat and humidity of the last few days. I opened the windows last night and turned off the AC.
I hope you all have a lovely day today.
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I do know where this day went
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I typed the letter to the insurance company and had DH sign it. Then I made copies of the policies (again) and the claim form he’d filled out and mailed ages ago. Tossed everything into an envelope and mailed it.
I took the dogs out, ran to the grocery store, came home and worked on the pond, watered the plants, took the dogs out, and fed them. After that I cooked our dinner, we ate, I washed the dishes, took the dogs out, and sliced cucumbers. Then I put the cucumbers in a bowl, salted them, and put them in the fridge to sit for a couple of hours.
I fed the fish. I sat down to catch my breath for a little while. I put eggs on to boil, cut potatoes into cubes and put them on to boil. I cut celery and onions made the dressing for the potato salad and put it over the celery and onions. I put that bowl in the fridge.
Eggs done, cooled them, peeled and chopped them, and added them to the potato salad bowl. Drained the potatoes and added them to the bowl. Then I put the bowl in the fridge.
I washed all the prep dishes.
I sat down at the computer and began to type this….
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Life insurance, the never-ending story
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Back in March, when the MIL died we sent three policies into her life insurance company. For five months, we’ve sent copies and copies, and more copies in. So has the funeral home. We kept getting excuses but no results.
Yesterday we got a call from them saying they were cutting two checks for two policies. Wait a minute guys, there are three of them. Oh, yeah they can’t find the third one on their database. Um, gee whiz, she never cashed it in. It is paid in full, why don’t you have it in your records? Um…they don’t know.
All three policies won’t cover funeral expenses and now they tell us they can’t find the third. ARRRRGH! DH feels like Charlie Brown and wants to bang his head against a wall.
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Worn out
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We had another disappointing day. G and I arrived very early and had no early birds this time—wouldn’t you just know it!
I don’t normally do mornings but for DH I did get up early two days in a row for this. It was bad enough to drag myself out of bed after only two or three hours of sleep on Saturday but on Sunday, I got up an hour earlier. Six freaking a.m. I only do six freaking a.m. when I go to conferences!
We will probably do at least one more day of this next weekend. There goes another day of my life I’ll never get back.
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I played with the camera today
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An odd weather day
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It rained all around us yesterday but not a single raindrop fell in our neighborhood. I had to water the vegetables.
I harvested six large cucumbers and a jalepeno pepper. There’s another variety of hot pepper out there that has one almost ready to pick. I wish the tomatoes were ready, but they’ll be a while yet.
Two of the five eggplants have blossoms. I look forward to them since this time I bought different several varieties.
I hope you all have a good day!
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There will be coffee
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G and I stayed at the house until almost six last night. We finished sorting and marking everything. She worked on one section while I worked on clearing the tools out of the tool chests. I now have two large empty tool chests ready to sell (not cheap) and a bunch of tools (going cheap).
We did have a couple of early shoppers from Craig’s list who had contacted me by e-mail and I told them they could come while we were there on Wednesday. We added some more cash to the ‘paint the house’ fund. Hooray!
DH plans to bring us lunches on Saturday and Sunday. G has to leave an hour early on Saturday so for the last hour I’ll be depending on the neighbor to take care of business in the basement while I work the upstairs.
Knowing what little sleep I’ll get this weekend I’ve already made plans to have a pot of coffee going all day both days, so if you’re in the area, drop on in. The coffee is on me.
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Good news and more
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I’ve already had some inquiries into items we have listed for the house clean out on Craig’s list. It would be exciting to have many people show up and buy, buy, buy. We sure do want to have the house empty, empty, empty so the painters can come.
Yesterday I spent the day attempting to catch up on a few household chores. DH is happy that he has clean clothes. The fish are happy now that they’ve had their filters backwashed and fresh water added to the pond. The pups were thrilled that they had me to tease and harass non-stop all day.
The gardens are happy since I watered. I do need to buy some mulch so they don’t dry as fast as they have been. Once I’m done over at the MIL’s house, I will do that.
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Three cheers!!!
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I posted the house clean out sale on Craig’s list. I can’t believe we’re almost done with this! Eight months of hard work is FINALLY coming to an end. WHOOHOO!!!
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Almost done!
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Another day of setting things up and marking them for the sale and with only one more day for us to work on it we think we’ve done quite well. The ninth and tenth will get here before we know it.
We sorted through some lovely old linen table cloths, napkins, lace doilies, cut work lace, and other assorted goodies marking them as we went along. We have them displayed in the master bedroom.
I hope the Lane chest sells for a decent price. The sofa and lounge chair are like new and are rather modestly priced so they ‘should’ sell. The small chest freezer is new, we bought it for his mother, and she only used it for a few months.
We found a ton of old records that we have set up in boxes, which makes it easy to flip through the titles. The number of cookbooks we put out for sale for someone who was mediocre cook amazed us.
I hope someone wants the two tool chests in the basement. We have no place to put them in our home.
We’ll be back over there on Wednesday to finish setting up and marking things. Then on Saturday and Sunday, we’ll be ready to go at nine in the morning. This means I won’t be getting any sleep until Monday.
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