The Update

I’m getting tired of ‘the list(s)’ so here’s an update instead:

We are listing the house first thing in the morning on June 1^st. Then we will be able to have the Broker’s Open (realtors’ walk through) the next day. We are listing whether or not every last thing is done. The kitchen is a couple of knobs away from completion and we’ll be painting the ceiling in the kitchen, dining room and hallway here within the next day or so. A little trim will go up and some touch up painting in some of the rooms will be done.

Right now there is mud drying on the ceiling in the kitchen and near the hallway. Once it’s dry I’ll “touch sand” it and put the last coat on. When that’s dry we’ll put on the texture. Pray that we get this texture right. We are on our third try. I’ve got some sand and I’m going to mix it with mud myself to see if we can match it up. I am sooooo happy Dave Jones was here yesterday to point us in the right direction with this texture. I know it was a provision from God because if he wasn’t I also would have done a coat of drywall mud with lumpy, junky mud that should be thrown out. I got an excellent lesson from Dave in applying the mud (and he did more than half of it for me!! :)

Dave also is probably more than halfway done with the vinyl repairs. Then we have a list of about 3 other things for him to do and then he can finally have his evenings back!

Then we will be on to the cleaning and staging phase. We do still need to borrow a small dark brown or black (hopefully round) table for our dining room (or maybe spray paint our old one). We would also like to set up our guest room with a twin bed (this need has been met!). Today I’ll be hauling some things into the garage for our yard sale Friday and Saturday (8 am to noon) so that should clear out the basement pretty well. I'm going to spray some weeds and do a little mowing and we'll make a trip to the dump and that should clean up the yard enough.

So, that’s where we are. May I extend a preliminary thank you to everyone who put aside their own 'to do' lists and came and painted, and scraped, and shoveled, and lifted, and scrubbed, and organized, and went to the store, and weeded, and played with our kids, and picked up our boy from school, and made us dinner, and...LOVED US. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35