The big update

{Photo taken while on a swing at the park close to our house. We had been booted out for a showing.}

You might have noticed that I haven't been around for a while. (Although you've probably figured it out from my twitter updates!) We sold our house quickly -- less than 10 days! Thankfully we can move on from keeping the house in a museum-like state now; keeping up with that was exhausting.

We have until September 3rd to find a new house and move. We've seen countless houses in two weeks: everything from places that have every sort of easement possible (natural gas, petroleum, big power lines...), to houses under flight paths, too close to freeways/highways, crazy sloping hills, grow-op's (scary), and a place where a guy was shot (but lived, woo hoo?). It's been a completely mixed bag of houses. You'd think that we were searching for the perfect house, when really we're just looking for a place that needs a whole lot of love (read through the lines: a ton of reno's) on a larger piece of land.

At the moment we've put an offer in on a place that we both like -- wait, the only place we like at all. I'm not going to say too much about it now as we're having it inspected next Tuesday afternoon and our subjects are supposed to be removed by July 3rd. If that all goes according to plan I'll have more details then!

{Another photo from the swing. I like it so much I might look into having it printed on canvas!}

I spy

The 'for sale' sign on a post arrived yesterday, high enough now that you can see it (the other one was temporary).  Of course, I snuck behind the peep-hole to watch it being installed.

Oodles of flowers

I picked up a load of flowers today to add to areas throughout the house.  I first picked a colour palette of white, green, yellow and a little red, and then browsed around the florist (bonus: Thursdays are 15% off customer appreciation days!).  I ended up selecting these:

One house for sale, coming up!

Above is a shot from a walk (okay, a 'snoop') through the neighbourhood.  We've got those crazy cottonwood fluffies all over the place, and sometimes it looks like it's snowing.

We did a major clean-out and organize this past week/weekend.  Our realtor came by on Sunday and we signed all the papers for listing our house (the house will be listed June 8th).  

This week we're spending our time cleaning and sorting things a little more and catching little things (um, forgot to silicone the bottom of a toilet, whoops!).  I'll be staging rooms this week and photographing them, so look forward to some good before and afters coming up!