We're not counting our chickens before they hatch but things are progressing nicely, we hope. Josh and Chandler noticed out bootleg "Coming Soon" sale in front of the house and
reached out to Theresa. They stopped by twice during the estate sale this past weekend and fell in love with the house, even during the chaos. They said they would let us know and they did just that. Price agreed. "As is", but they want to do a home inspection, which of course makes sense. I went through everything right and wrong with the house letting them know the home inspector will eviscerate this 100 year old house. They get it, and they want it. I hope for them, and us, things go forward. There is something knowing your house is going to good people. We feel we did a good job during our 8 years here and did the house and property well. Now it's time to pass the baton over to the next owners.
But before their evening visit with their parents I had the pleasure of attending the Capital Health Nursing School pinning ceremony. Like so many before it's nice to sit back and watch the class now all smiles and ready to begin their careers in nursing.
Tomorrow is the Essex County College pinning ceremony and it comes with a mixed emotions. I am so happy and proud of them as well. It was this class, the first the college had with over a hundred students at the start, that I had for their entire first year before I left. The class voted me to be their commencement speaker, only to have the faculty oppose their choice. When I heard this I was deflated, and hoped the class fought, not for me, for themselves. It was their choice. It is their pinning. Oh well for democracy. Vetoing a speaker is unheard of, but I'm not surprised. I was looking forward to addressing the class, in fact, I had already had my speech completed and ready to roll. Ironically, almost to the day, I addressed my own graduating class as class president in May of 1996. That was 30 years ago.
So I'll spend the day instead running around finishing up projects that need to be done before the sale goes through. A few broken windows, some outlets that are hanging out of their boxes by a thread, and of course scanning the yard for sticks and weeds. But as I do that I will be with the Class of 2026 in spirit, some of those kids I really enjoyed teaching, and becoming friends with.
And of course with the timeline of the sale shortening we have been working with our realtor down there about some potential houses. Trying to buy a house 750 away isn't easy and having a realtor you trust is key. We have seen other houses we liked and thought they could be the one but we weren't ready.
But the above house may meet our needs. It's a good size, has a good kitchen and flow, we like the location inside Sun City. It has a much coveted den or office, which I have begged for to be my "Man Cave". We'll see how that goes. I know I'm gonna need a space to call my own, otherwise we will surely kill each other at some point. We also really dig the lanai out back.
We know things could come to a halt at any moment and as Yogi said, "It ain't over till it's over", but, with fingers crossed and Jesus taking the wheel maybe this will all go down as planned after all. No matter what happens and when, I'm still going to Martha's Vineyard with the two Joe's and Brad on June 13th, selling a buying a house or not.