The joys of selling a house...

OH Joy, preparing to change a virtual lifetime, is a certain cause for picking up an extra bottle of Aspirin (fill in whatever your poison is here).

It's been 21 years since I left Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, and in that time, I/we have accumulated a lifetime of stuff.

Garden tools, car ramps, battery chargers, spare tires, ladders, trash bins, old bikes for parts, old bikes just cuz they're cool.

BOTH my girls lived in this house for lengthy years, they left behind things.  There have been several people that I have helped out over the years that left things.

When Brenda and Anna moved in last fall, they brought things.

Houses, like cars or bikes or relationships, need upkeep and TLC on a regular basis.

MINE is no exception.

During those periods when I was recovering from the collision in '02 that kicked the heck outa me for over a year, then there was the heart attack and the subsequent down time... my place was neglected.  It's been a grind getting things back up to par but that's been succeeding fairly well, I'd venture to say.

LAST fall and much of the winter and spring, has been non stop work.  When the weather was conducive, it was outdoor work, painting repairing, modifying, down sizing.  When not, there was tearing walls down, putting walls up, painting, repairing, renovating, modifying... and downsizing.

All this cost time and money.

With the spring finally here, in fits and starts, both of us have been outside when possible.  I've been selling off my big stuff, the tent trailer went in a day, the travel trailer came home Friday and was sold Saturday.  In both cases very nice people indeed and it is always nice to see things you valued, give some pleasure to others in their turn.

WITHOUT a doubt, I will be on the market in 10 days!

What's left to do is mostly clean-up and touch up.  This is actually a very nice home, unique in it's lay-out and with plentiful garage and parking space, pretty much ideal for a family with cars, RV's, motorbikes and such and let's not forget, a very pretty view across to C.O.P.* and even a peek at the Rockies nearby to the west.

It will be sad to leave, there are many memories,

but like we've always said, home is where you hang your helmet, and some of mine are already on the Island.

TWO thirds of us are looking forward to the move, the other third is fighting it tooth and nail.

Guess which one that is...

THE countdown stands under 60 days now, officially, of course it will depend on the fast sale of my home.

Yup... the Joys of Moving are not quite as pleasurable as the Joys of Sex, and maybe more tiring to boot!

*COP Canada Olympic Park where the movie 'Cool Runnings' was filmed.