We are one day closer, April 29, 2012

It has been a month since I last posted…we have been so busy each day and at least two weekends checking off the jobs we had to do that time has just flown.
Both bathrooms needed to have the floors tiled and one needed a new shower.







We had contracted with an outside company, James Estate Services, to do the estate sale, below they are working on our garage.

During the sale the garage was lined with two more rows of tables full of guy goodies.  Each room of the house was lined with tables too.  This is the morning after the three day sale. 

After the sale ended, our estate sale folks offered the opportunity of a buy-out of the rest of the stuff in the house.  Two young guys came in with an acceptable offer, so they took almost 99% of the remaining unsold items.  So then we sorted the remaining 1% into two areas, trash or donate.
Sacramento County provided free of charge a once a year trash pickup of 8 cu yards.  Our trash pile was 24 cu yards so we were charged $50 extra dollars, what a deal.  The photo below shows only about 1/3 of our original pile.

The county annual pickup includes TV’s too, and we had one small one for pickup.  So this huge truck come with a crane on top and loaded our TV.  Good to see our tax dollars at work!

As I am writing this we are now two weeks after the sale, the house is empty, house cleaned and carpets cleaned.  All jobs except three are done and those will be done by mid week.  The jobs remaining are to replace the oven timer (had to order one in), paint the roof vent, and make sure the repaired sink leak is fixed.
Best of all the house is listed. 

Below are some grandkid photos.
Zach participating in a track meet.








Abby after a Softball two day tournament, their team came in 3rd.

Lindsey’s 14th birthday, with Abby who decorated her birthday king sized cookie.

Justin, Abby and Lindsey, all giving grandma their best smiles!!

This is a photo of us with of our son, Rich.  He is 6’, so he was bending his knees quite a bit so we will all fit in this photo.

These flowers are from our stick and brick house.

Passed Pest Inspection, March 28, 2012

Good things happened today.   The repairs for the dry rot were acceptable to the pest inspector…so we passed!  Now the bathrooms can be completed.  The floor tile work will begin tomorrow in the hall bathroom and the shower stall in the other bathroom will be hot mopped, then the tile work can begin in that shower stall and the floor in a day or so. 

Today we also had the Relo Cube delivered from ABF Trucking.

This unit was then off loaded and placed in our driveway.

Then the packing of the unit begins.  Each box is numbered and I have an inventory of its contents.  This unit will be driven by ABF Trucking to Mission TX (for our coach house) and remain in storage until be get there in mid August.

Bob was also busy today placing a smoke detector in each bedroom and in the kitchen.  When we lived there we only had one in the family room and in the hall near the bedrooms. 

We keep a couple of thought in mind as we keep marking off jobs on our list,  1)  We don’t have to task again!!   and  2)  We are one day closer to being done!!!

We are getting there, March 27, 2012

We have been working on the house getting our stuff sorted for one month now, and today was the first day we left the house before 4-5 pm.  The house has been sorted with items for sale, items to put into storage and items to take to Retama Village, our RV lot in Mission, TX. 

Last Sunday our son, Rich, and grandson, Zach, helped us move our stuff to a storage unit using a U-Haul truck.

Here Zach and Bob are being brakes (photo taken just a split second late) for Rich bringing a file cabinet down the ramp.

Our daughter, Jenny, and granddaughter, Abby, looking through a jewelry box for treasures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other progress items include, the house to be  listed on April 23rd.

A four day estate sale April 12-15th.  The folks doing the sale have started staging the rooms already. 

The pest inspection revealed some dry rot issues in both bathrooms, so the repairs have been made, hopefully they will pass their Pest re-inspection tomorrow.

The roof inspection revealed additional work to be done, and that work has been completed, now we have a two year guarantee for the new owners.

Bob found in one of the boxes his old clarinet, so we had it refurbished and how our grandson Zach, has it and is learning how to play it again, he did play one a couple of years ago.  He is very excited to have his grandpa’s clarinet.

 

One day Bob spent all day cleaning the gutters.  Also the house has been power washed, so now we know we only need to repaint the entrance.

On Thursday ABF U-Pack Moving is delivering a Relo Cube for us to pack up, then they will take the cube to the Mission, Texas and keep it in storage until be need it.

So after the Cube is loaded on Thursday, we will be down to the jobs that clean, repair, and/or replace items in the house that need it.  Today we replaced a hall light fixture, turned out the ballast was defective. We are on the down hill slide, having worked so far 14 days straight, working at least part of the last two weekends.  The aches and pains are setting in.

Parting comment – sorting and cleaning out a house is not for sissies.