The quest to sell our home is finally over. Some wonderful suckers ... er... people ... have purchased our home essentially at its asking price. Not that our home is a bad home. And not that it was overpriced (although you could argue that it was given the current market. It appraised for $300,000 with an asking/selling price of $330,000 ... but that was a pretty unreasonable appraisal in my opinion. Our house was appraised essentially the same as next door neighbor's cesspool of a home, which was nicely updated. If you were stuck in 1979.) In fact, it's quite nice and has been upgraded considerably since we bought it a little over 2 years ago. But the market has collapsed throughout the country (except in Austin) and many people can't get rid of their places without taking a big financial hit.
We'll miss the place, however. Natalie and I remember taking walks/runs along the shores of Lake Champlain and relaxing the living room in front of the fireplace. We fondly recall our cats hacking up hairballs on a new off-white carpet. And we remember the joy of having no kitchen for over 2 months while renovating. Lots of great memories of eating with plastic and not being able to wash dishes.
Maybe all of the memories weren't so good.
We'll be using the profit to pay off my private student loans as well as to buy Natalie a new car. Natalie would like a stylish, sporty Honda Acura sedan. Something, she claims, that would be good for Anderson. Hmm ... picture Anderson in this:
I'm also looking out for Anderson. I'm thinking that Munchkin will do well with the ladies in an Acura, but he might be able to do a little better in this:
Finally, we had our friends Matt, June and Rivers visit from Houston. Matt wussed out of a run, blaming his age, the heat and a dog who ate his homework. He did recover enough to take a picture with Anderson, Natalie, Rivers and June. They are good people. Unlike Matt. (For those of you who don't know Matt, he's the old guy in the picture.)
More Anderson photos to come with the next blog as Natalie has the camera ...
