Our Oolitic house officially went on the market yesterday. This is bittersweet. So glad to have it for sale, but we wouldn't be doing it if Mom and Dad hadn't died and we moved to their house.
I'm very glad we are in their house, though. I do like it much better. It is just that we were kind of "forced" into the situation if that makes sense. Anyway, now we are getting a little sad. This was the first house I ever owned. I remember showing it to Mom and Dad. I remember the night we moved my stuff from T Street--it was raining. Mom and John helped me with some of my stuff. Not sure where Dad was. I remember sitting out on the patio with Mom and Dad and there were these wasps coming out of the this hole by the patio door. Dad was all about spraying up in there--and all these angry wasps came flying out. Dad got our little stone "steps" for the back patio--which I will take with me. I remember when we got our landscaping done. We got the same pavers as Mom and Dad. They weren't cheap and I can just see Dad going around and counting them to see how much we'd spent! That was Dad. One time he cleaned out our garage for us so we could get a car in there for winter. One time he came out with the loppers and starting cutting limbs off the pines and Bradford Pairs in front--some of which we didn't want cut off! But that was Dad, too. When he got it in his head to do something, he'd just do it. He put up the light fixtures in our kitchen and put in a light fixture over the sink so we would see better. Later on I kind of quit asking him to do electrical stuff. It seemed to stress him out some. Not sure why. Mom always offered to help me clean the house, but I never took her up on it. She liked to look at our plants in the landscaping. We had a hosta bed in back and she gave us some hostas to put in there. I guess we will leave those. She always liked Susan's little yard decorations. When they would come to visit, Dad would head for the family room and turn the TV on to watch golf or whatever game was on. When the 17 year cicadas came in 2004, we had them everywhere. They didn't have them so much in town so I had Mom and Dad come out and check ours out. They couldn't believe how many we had.

Just random thoughts today. Will write more later.

Love you Mom and Dad.

Susie