USA | Sunday, 17 Apr 2011 | Views [798]
It has been two months since our last entry and all I can say is I am so sorry! Let me try to catch you up. Selling a house in these trying times is not for the faint-of-heart. There are just too few potential buyers and way too many homes for sale.... Read more >
USA | Friday, 25 Feb 2011 | Views [987]
The house is on the market but there are still things to be taken care of - mending fences, the kind Robert Frost rhymed of, not those of the inter-personal type, although there are several of those that are also suffering from neglect. Or were those ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 18 Feb 2011 | Views [744]
So said Caesar as he prepared to cross the Rubicon. For us it’s not a river to be crossed,
it is the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike old Julius, who just wanted to return to Rome, our goal is to see the
world beginning with Europe. We have been ... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 25 Jan 2011 | Views [666]
The kitchen guys have been gone for a week now and we are getting things back to rights. Our cherry floors suffered some damage from the electrician's ladder but he sent us a check for a couple of hundred bucks as a peace offering. All in all we ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 10 Jan 2011 | Views [831]
Sarah Palin must be the goddess of American construction workers!
Now we know where the conservatives work; construction. When he heard we had lived in Africa, the electrician told
me of his hunting safari in Namibia.
He only shot ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 9 Jan 2011 | Photo Gallery
How to leave everything behind
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USA | Saturday, 8 Jan 2011 | Views [955]
I know we shouldn’t get attached and make selling a house
personal but it’s easier said than done.
When the realtor tells you that the colors you picked out and have lived
with for a decade aren’t what the buyers want, you just smile and ask, ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 5 Jan 2011 | Views [879]
“When I was very young
and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people
that maturity would cure this itch.
When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured ... Read more >
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