July 23, 2009
Dear Everyone:
Drum roll!! Fanfare!!
The
townhouse is (finally)
listed!!!
Many, many thanks to everyone who helped get it
ready, especially “Jeannie” who worked many long hours and was last seen
yesterday planting color spots in the front yard for added
curb appeal.
I stopped by after work today and found a For Sale sign at the
entrance to
Inside, my
realtor had added many tasteful cards
that read things like “Special Feature:
New Granite Countertops” in the kitchen.
There is a collection of flyers and her business cards on said
counter. We are officially
in business.
Anyone who is interested in seeing it can click on
this link: [Doesn’t exist
anymore]. Feel free to bid
on it. The realtor said we
would look at any and all offers next Thursday.
On Monday, I met the realtor after work and we
looked around the place.
There was still a lot of stuff in the outdoor storage closet and all the
cleaning supplies in the laundry closet.
We decided to fill out all the paper work in her office the next
day.
I stopped by after work on Tuesday to set out the
garbage and recycle bins (Wednesday is pickup day.)
Then I drove down to
On Wednesday I went back to put the bins back
inside the carport.
“Jeannie” was there and she had cleaned out the storage closet and
neatened up what needed to stay there, like some tools.
She had also removed all the cleaning supplies from what is now
being called: “Special
Feature: Laundry Area and
Pantry.”
There was still the matter of two yellow lawn
chairs that “Jeannie” had brought down from her place a few weeks ago.
They had been sitting on either side of the front porch.
We thought about putting them in the back seat of my car and
taking them up to my new place.
Then I thought of donating them to the pool area.
But I had taken all the extra keys home and didn’t
have a key to the gate to the pool area at the time.
So we left the chairs in front of the gate.
This afternoon, after a meeting that ran all the way to 4:30, I
went back to the townhouse with a pool gate key.
Someone had already decided that the chairs were a good addition
to the pool area and set them at the far end of the pool.
So they have found a good home.
In other news…
Back in the 60’s, when we were growing up in
Lake
Oswego, Oregon, we were friends with a family named “Cassidy”.
Their boys were the same age as our boys and some of their girls
were the same age as some of our girls.
Last month, while I was at the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, one
of the “Cassidy girls” visited the
Bay Area and called on “Jeannie”.
They had dinner at a restaurant in
Walnut Creek
called Vic Stewarts. The
building that the restaurant is in was originally the Walnut Creek Train
Station. In fact, “Jeannie”
told me, she once took our mother to Vic Stewart’s and Mother remembered
being in it as a girl when it was
a Train Station. I
understand that “Jeannie” and the “Cassidy girl” had a very nice time.
And by the way, the
Homeowners Association came
through and patched the crack in the concrete under the step of the
front porch at the townhouse. So
it really is ready.
Love, as always,
Pete
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