The house has been officially on the market for a week now. We (and our realtor too) expected a lot of viewings in the first week, but we were wrong about that. The first viewing will be next Saturday. Maybe more people will come that day since it's 'Open House Day' (meaning a lot of houses for sale are open to visit without making an appointment). We'll see. It's a bit disappointing, but we keep telling ourselves that we need just one buyer.
My days are busy, editing jobs, keeping the house as clean and organized as possible, preparing for our trip to Curaçao. I try to savor the moments in this house, enjoy the last time those purple flowers will be mine, stop to admire the sunsets that are so beautiful this time of year. We've both got mixed feelings about it. We're ready for the change, but since it's going so slow our farewells are longer and more painful than we anticipated. We lived here longer than in any other house (in our 28 years of marriage, this is our fifth house and we've lived here for 14 years) and we love it so.
But now that the weather is changing, T.'s coughing gets worse again and that is a good reminder of why we're doing this. His heart condition is more or less under control, so we are grateful for that.
I've been doing a lot of thinking about how I use my time. There are so many things I want to do. I need more hours in a day and more days in a week. Or maybe I just need to prioritize. So, even though I'd like to participate in blogtober and post every day, I think I'm going to do a weekly catching up post. I may take time to prepare some hat posts, I have some catching up to do on that too.
I'm not sure if and how I will continue with the 52 hat challenge. My notes tell me the hat I'm working on is #39, so I'm not far behind, but I won't be able to knit on Curaçao since we plan to travel with carry-ons only and I don't have needles there. Should have left them behind on our last trip, but didn't. And even though I planned to be way ahead before we left, I have hardly done any knitting these days. Oh well, it's just for fun, isn't it? (I have to keep telling myself that, I tend to get too serious about these things)
One of the reasons that I haven't done much knitting is because I've been reading a lot. I discovered
Susan Colleen Browne and love her books, so I've been reading them all. Her memoirs (Little Farm in the Foothills and Little Farm Homegrown) are fun to read. She and her husband moved to the country to live simpler and start a little farm. The fact that they're close to our age and that she's a writer too made her story even more relatable for me. But I also like her fiction, a series of mostly romantic books and stories, set in a small Irish village. (If you like to try these books, the first one is available as a
free download on Amazon.)
linking up with
Jeannie Gray Knits' Makers' Monday and
Small Things' Yarn Along
