Happy 4th of July - in many ways!

This has been a busy, busy week leading up to this nation's holiday.  Last weekend, we did our "walk through" to update Jim's giant to do list in order to get the house listed for sale.  We have decided to try and sell it ourselves...so - drumroll, please - we put it on Zillow this morning!!!  We'll put signs with our brochures in the yard soon.  Then we'll sit back and wait for the phone calls to come in!  We hope to be able to do it by appointment and still let Jim have time to continue working on that to do list in between.  So we'll see how it goes.

It's crazy - so many mixed emotions.  We have moved on in our minds to New York and that can't be done until this house sells.  But I can't focus on selling it in my mind because this house is just every square inch US.

But fingers crossed for a quick sale!  Now it's back to that to do list!!

Jim has been working like crazy around here - totally cleaned out the attic and even scrubbed the chimney brick!  He repainted his bathroom (needed it after an unfortunate Oust experience a couple years ago!), did touch-up in a few other rooms, got his tools out of the basement, started loading up the truck again, installed my stovetop fan (so cool!) - the list just goes on and on.

A couple of big items got checked off today.  Jim wanted to repaint the ceiling in the kitchen as well as the attic door.  I kind of like the pink - I told Jim he was getting jn touch with his feminine side!



Pink ceilings, anyone?

I also wanted him to refinish the kitchen floors with a coat of Fresh Finish - recommended by Bruce Flooring but we had kind of been scared to do it and risk messing them up. But they just looked tired after all these years.  So he did it as his last job today...then we had to leave for a few hours to let it dry. We decided to use that excuse for a date night and headed to Texas Roadhouse.  It was a well-needed break and gave us a few minutes to sit and strategize too.