We sat outside for a short time and he quizzed me on what I planned to do - and what his plans were for my time. Of course it included getting my phone taken care of. When did I want to go. He had a 2:30 appt at Costco to get his hearing aids cleaned out.
So I put him off for a few hours because I did want to start going through boxes. Oh my goodness! What fun that was. One entire box is full of photos. Some brought back great memories and others just fun times. I found a script my daughter wrote to the board of the insurance company to fight for her bone marrow transplant. I found numerous report cards for the two boys. I found a song that my middle child had written me on my 41st birthday, I think it was. I snapped that one and sent to him. He remembered. I put it back in the box until a time the kids go through them and take what they want.
I'm wanting to have a photo night - but looking at all the albums we have, and boxes of photos too, I'm thinking it may need to be an all day Saturday look through. Or at least a couple Saturday mornings or afternoons. It would be fun to fix a meal for them and let them go through everything. I need to allow them to do it now, for when I die, who is going to want to have to deal with everything. If they go through them now, take what they want, then I can mail to others their photos for their families. So many photos, so many good times, so many memories. I saw photos of my deceased brothers and I began to think back to times with them. I need to find a time where they can come and go through photos. I don't care if they come one at a time, but one might get a photo the other would love to have.
Back to yesterday..... I unpacked about 4-5 boxes, then as hubby asked a couple times when would I want to go.... I stopped and got cleaned up to go out. He took me to lunch and we had a nice lunch. It was a very good pork tenderloin I got! Then we went to go get the screen fixed at a small shop near metrocenter. It was no longer there. Since we were by the 'old' house, I asked that we go visit out neighbor and check out the reports we had gotten on our former front lawn.
It was great to visit with John for a short time. He says he hasn't seen much of our neighbor, but they have had someone out on the roof nearly daily. One of the driveway side windows had been broken out and taped up. The covering over the attic was removed and there was a ladder laying against the house. John also said they have been doing something with the air conditioner, and he thought they were working on the sunlights.
Now the sunlights could need to be replaced eventually, but it isn't something that needed to be done immediately. The air conditioner we had serviced before we moved, and they told us it was working better than some of the new ones (in spite of being over 25 years old!) - it was just very loud. I still believe that when the painters who painted the outside of our house stupidly taped up the air conditioner did something to it. When I walked outside that next morning I immediately ripped the plastic off of the air conditioner and noticed that it was much, much louder than it had ever been. It had been enclosed in plastic with no air circulation around it and running for 24 hours or so. From then on it has been extremely loud, but it still cooled the inside.
The yard. Our yard we had taken care of for so long. I must admit it was one of the better looking lawns on the block, and when my roses bloomed, it was a beautiful sight. I'm glad I have photos of it for no one would believe the beauty of it compared to what it looks like now. The neighbor across the street had called again a week or so ago and complained about the yard, and she missed the beauty of it. So we wanted to see it too. The grass is brown. Two of the bushes up next to the house are totally dead and brown. My roses are dead. With the temperatures like they have been, and no water given to them, the landscaping is turning the ugly shade of brown. I didn't look at the tree, but it isn't getting water either. It was so sad. We wondered about the back yard, the pool, but were afraid to go into the back to see what it looked like. If the front looks like this, the back must be worse. Have they let the pool mold? The grass is surely dead for it also has a sprinkler system. Our son-in-law had fixed the back yard up to look so nice, spent a lot of time and money in fixing it.
What could these people be thinking to pay that kind of money for a house and then let it go to pot? I wonder if she is regretting buying the house now. There wasn't anything wrong with it that needed immediate attention. We were doing quite fine there, and our son-in-law and grandson did a lot of work to fix things. We just don't understand why someone would spend that kind of money for a house they were not going to take care of. Oh, I neighbor also said that they were tearing down walls he thought. The only wall they could tear down would be between two of the bedrooms. Maybe that's it? I don't know. I wish them well, but wow. It blows me away. I wouldn't buy a house to remodel unless I knew what I was doing. I would buy a house that fit my needs.
Which is what we did. We both love our new home and it's arrangement. We both like the space we have which is nearly all used. In our other house, there was a substantial amount of space that wasn't used but once or twice a year. We will use / and do use / the space we now have. My only 'complaint' is that I wish we had a yard for Sheeba to run in. But I need to get my butt moving in the mornings and take her for a walk, and get hubby to take her to the dog park when the weather gets better.
And, speaking of taking a walk - here comes Sheeba running down the hall - I hear her. So I guess I need to get up, get dressed, and take her for that walk. Need to - we got a walking challenge on Fitbit going this weekend!! Have a great weekend!
Blessings!
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