We are getting ready to sell our house. 

The thing that always blows my mind about selling a house is this:  In order to sell a house in a quick and orderly manner, the owners must fix the things that are broken or shabby.  So a lot of money and time is spend fixing up the house, until you get it to the point where it’s damn near perfect, and you aren’t even going to enjoy the things you worked on because, well, you’re moving out!  Our list of things to fix includes, but is not limited to:

  • Fix small, mysterious hole in bathroom wall
  • Replace garage door…it’s never been the same since I backed into it (always check to make sure it’s open, ‘tard!)
  • Adjust towel rack in bathroom, apparently gravity is winning the war
  • Replace lattice work where evil fat bunnies chewed through it
  • Finish getting connected to the sewer (Eff you, Teller County!)
  • Clean carpets
  • Paint porch and deck
  • Remove dead tree (small)
  • Melt forty thousand tons of snow that still edges the sides of the driveway
  • Clean windows
  • Box crap up so it looks less full in here

Alright then.  That’s a good start.  When all of those things are done, and we can walk again, maybe someone will actually consider buying the place.

There was another thing that was on the list too…removing snow from the back deck.  The blizzards of the recent past pretty much buried our back deck and since the winter sun does not hit that side of the house, the snow remained.  Jesse went out there and shoveled the stuff that had not transformed into ice away.  I had a bad feeling about him doing this so early in March, but I didn’t say anything.  Still, snowflakes started falling at about 2 PM. 

It was supposed to be a warm, sunny day today.  Oops.