We currently have three offers on Grouch estates! Our agent is going to call us tonight from his poker game to tell us if offer #3 is the winner. Stay tuned.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Goodbye "Code Black"
The season finale for "Code Black" was a tear-jerker of the first water. Both the Missus and I were dabbing our eyes and sniffing as many relationships were healed and the series appeared to be wrapped up and saying goodbye.
We have always enjoyed this show even with the sometimes gross surgical procedures and horrific injuries that the staff of Angels Memorial in Los Angeles contended with every Wednesday night right on our TV screen.
We're happy that the show was able to do a true finale and bring happy closure to the open issues in the lives of the series regulars.
We'll miss you.
We have always enjoyed this show even with the sometimes gross surgical procedures and horrific injuries that the staff of Angels Memorial in Los Angeles contended with every Wednesday night right on our TV screen.
We're happy that the show was able to do a true finale and bring happy closure to the open issues in the lives of the series regulars.
We'll miss you.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Home for sale!
Because our home is now for sale I find myself checking Zillow and Redfin several times a day to see how many 'saves' and 'likes' we've achieved. I'm excited to see the saves and irritated at the three 'X' we've gotten on Redfin. The nerve of some people!
The number is still going up which is a good thing and so far we've had 4 agents with clients look at it plus a well attended open house. Now we need an offer and a contract so we can go back to our usual 'casual' living style!
The number is still going up which is a good thing and so far we've had 4 agents with clients look at it plus a well attended open house. Now we need an offer and a contract so we can go back to our usual 'casual' living style!
Sunday, July 15, 2018
Leaving the nest
The Missus and I traveled with Young Son to Pasadena this evening to look at an apartment that he is interested in renting before we sell and move to NC.
He was excited about the prospect of having his own place and I am excited for him but sad and a bit apprehensive too. He's not been on his own before and the task of being a single man in the world is something that he will have to grow into.
The next hurdle will be figuring out how to get his bedroom furnishings plus the couch, table/chairs, and bookcase that we are passing along to him from her to a second floor apartment with only a tiny elevator to hold the stuff. Stay tuned for updates!
He was excited about the prospect of having his own place and I am excited for him but sad and a bit apprehensive too. He's not been on his own before and the task of being a single man in the world is something that he will have to grow into.
The next hurdle will be figuring out how to get his bedroom furnishings plus the couch, table/chairs, and bookcase that we are passing along to him from her to a second floor apartment with only a tiny elevator to hold the stuff. Stay tuned for updates!
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Moving On
The process to sell Grouch Estates and move east has begun.
The de-cluttering whirlwind hit us on Monday and now the house is about 60% empty. Stuff has been tossed, donated or moved into storage pending the sale. The house echos now. Some of the echos are from our 30 years of memories. No house besides my childhood home holds as many memories as this place.
Today the pictures were taken for the listing while the cleaning crew was here! It was quite the dance to coordinate the photographer's efforts with the cleaners.
Tomorrow the carpet cleaner show up as well as the sign for the front yard.
Sunday is the open house and when we visit the potential apartment for Young Son to move to.
It is all almost too much at once. Poor Kerby the best dog in the world can't understand what is happening to her life. I think the Missus feels the same.
Guess I better find us a house to move to!
The de-cluttering whirlwind hit us on Monday and now the house is about 60% empty. Stuff has been tossed, donated or moved into storage pending the sale. The house echos now. Some of the echos are from our 30 years of memories. No house besides my childhood home holds as many memories as this place.
Today the pictures were taken for the listing while the cleaning crew was here! It was quite the dance to coordinate the photographer's efforts with the cleaners.
Tomorrow the carpet cleaner show up as well as the sign for the front yard.
Sunday is the open house and when we visit the potential apartment for Young Son to move to.
It is all almost too much at once. Poor Kerby the best dog in the world can't understand what is happening to her life. I think the Missus feels the same.
Guess I better find us a house to move to!
Monday, July 9, 2018
Getting humbled
So, because of my shoulder surgery I have been sidelined from doing the home gardening. I have always done the grass and bushes at our various homes.
When I was in high school I had a burgeoning lawn service that I ran for a select group of clients who brought me more business by word of mouth. I also cut the home grass, attacked the grass and honeysuckle vines on the hill behind the family abode with a sickle, raked the enormous amounts of leaves that the oak and maple trees dropped in the fall and generally made myself useful outside of the house.
I couldn't even escape grass duty when I went off to the Army. When the Grouch family moved into government housing in Germany I volunteered (because no one else would do it) to cut the grass around our apartment building.
Here at Grouch estate there are slopes around the house to weed-whack, grass to cut and trim and trees to trim too. I've done it for 30 years here in sunny SoCal.
So anyway, no grass cutting and trimming for me due to my surgery. Young Son and the Missus have stepped up to cut the grass but they aren't checked out on the weed-whacker so the slopes were getting unruly.
We're putting the house on the market so I had to sub the work out. Oliver the gardener showed up this past Friday when it was literally 117F. He labored for at least 4 hours and when he was done everything was dress-right-dress, cut, trimmed, edged, and weeded. I have never in my life done such precise work. And he raked everything up, filling both of our giant green waste barrels.
I supplied him with water and the Missus handed over an ice cold Pepsi while he worked. The heat bothered him not at all.
I am amazed and humbled at the extent of his work and I realize now I have been a gardener poser all of my life. This seems to be something best left to the professionals.
At least until I get to Grouch estate east and I get to buy and use a riding lawn mower!
When I was in high school I had a burgeoning lawn service that I ran for a select group of clients who brought me more business by word of mouth. I also cut the home grass, attacked the grass and honeysuckle vines on the hill behind the family abode with a sickle, raked the enormous amounts of leaves that the oak and maple trees dropped in the fall and generally made myself useful outside of the house.
I couldn't even escape grass duty when I went off to the Army. When the Grouch family moved into government housing in Germany I volunteered (because no one else would do it) to cut the grass around our apartment building.
Here at Grouch estate there are slopes around the house to weed-whack, grass to cut and trim and trees to trim too. I've done it for 30 years here in sunny SoCal.
So anyway, no grass cutting and trimming for me due to my surgery. Young Son and the Missus have stepped up to cut the grass but they aren't checked out on the weed-whacker so the slopes were getting unruly.
We're putting the house on the market so I had to sub the work out. Oliver the gardener showed up this past Friday when it was literally 117F. He labored for at least 4 hours and when he was done everything was dress-right-dress, cut, trimmed, edged, and weeded. I have never in my life done such precise work. And he raked everything up, filling both of our giant green waste barrels.
I supplied him with water and the Missus handed over an ice cold Pepsi while he worked. The heat bothered him not at all.
I am amazed and humbled at the extent of his work and I realize now I have been a gardener poser all of my life. This seems to be something best left to the professionals.
At least until I get to Grouch estate east and I get to buy and use a riding lawn mower!
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Hey, it's me again!
Hi there, Grouch fans!
So I guess it has been awhile since I've checked in. Some things have happened since we last visited with each other:
The Missus and I went on a Caribbean cruise for a week in which we piloted underwater scooters - the Missus was very brave
So I guess it has been awhile since I've checked in. Some things have happened since we last visited with each other:
The Missus and I went on a Caribbean cruise for a week in which we piloted underwater scooters - the Missus was very brave
And we visited the only Star Wars themed museum in the Caribbean - on St. Maartin
I turned 64 in April
I had rotator cuff surgery on my left (dominate) shoulder so I learned how to do everything with my right hand. Thank goodness older son gifted an electric toothbrush to me for this very purpose
The Missus, Young Son and I spent the weekend in the Danish heritage town of Solvang and ate scrumptious Danish butter cookies!
We started the process to pack up the house and put it on the market July 15. We'll be moving across the country to North Carolina.
There, now we're caught up!
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