She just posted it on Facebook, so I think I have permission to begin celebrating too!
As my faithful readers know, we had an inspection Sunday on the house for which Jill has an accepted offer. There were some issues, most not too difficult or costly, except for the roof, which might have to be replaced sooner than later.
The inspector was a great guy, very experienced and knowledgeable, and full of good information. He declared the house sound and a good value.
As Jill said, " It has a big yard for Isaac, a downstairs for Irene, and a hot tub for me!"
Jill's loan guy will now get the paper work processed and closing should be in mid to late October.
Entry. ↑
Living room/dining room. ↑
Downstairs.↑
Sun room. ↑
Deck and hot tub enclosure. ↑
Tom already has a list of jobs to do at the new house as soon as we can get access. The house is clean and almost move-in ready. It's only 3-4 miles from us.
And now we can declare that we are EXCITED!
I was reading my Kindle at 10:30 last night when I got a warning that the battery was low. My Kindle PaperWhite can go a long time without recharging, so I forget that it actually needs to be plugged in once in a while.
I don't remember the last time I charged it, and therein lay the problem. I went to plug it in so that I could read some more in bed, and something was missing.
This. The outlet adapter. I couldn't very well plug it in without a plug!
I looked once, twice, three times in all the places it could be. I thought I remembered using it at the Whidbey cabin, and I pictured it there still plugged into the outlet under the work table.
We had no plans to get back there soon, and I didn't know if it was really there. I am 90% finished with a very long novel, and I really wanted to finish it. So I went online at 11:00 last night to see if I could get a replacement. This is an Amazon product, and sure enough, they had just that piece, not in a package with any other accessories. With Amazon Prime, which we purchased this year to see if we will get our money back from the $75 investment, I could get it for $19.99 and no shipping with a three day delivery time. For $3.99 more I could get it in 24 hours. I chose that.
Last year we were just under way into a three week trip when we got an email that our MasterCard was security compromised - again- and they were going to cancel it and mail us a new card. But we were not at home, and everything was pre-booked to the old card. We called Bank of America and got an extension. This had happened too many times, so when I got back home from that trip, I got a second, back up credit card. I decided to go with the Amazon Visa card, and now every time we order from Amazon, the purchase goes on the card. We get reward points.
So, back to the Amazon order. I used the Amazon Visa credit card reward points I had accumulated, which were $18.10. That brought the cost of the outlet adapter with tax and shipping to $8.16. I placed the order after 11:00 last night.
At about 4:00 this afternoon it was delivered to my door.
And now my Kindle is charging away and was doing so while I sat in my recliner and read for an hour this afternoon. It's a rainy day, and my work was done.
My kindle and I are happy.
And I love Amazon!
It's raining in Seattle today. We won't see the sun, as we got to yesterday and other days this last week.
I guess it's fitting weather for the fall equinox, the day when the daylight and darkness are equal, the first day of autumn. There will be more sunny days, but they will no longer have the warmth of a summer day. For that we will have to wait many months now. Maybe that's why spring is so lovely here - to make it worth waiting for.
Thankfully, there are wonderful colors and occasions to anticipate as nature gets ready for winter here in the Pacific Northwest. Leaves are just beginning to color up, and the show should last into November. I'm thinking pumpkins. There's just something about that lovely orange color that makes it OK to replace the geraniums on the porch with those glowing globes.
Today we will be meeting up with Jill and the kids to do a house inspection on the home she hopes to buy. Her offer has been accepted. Now we see if the house needs more work than we anticipated. We are hopeful, but holding off on our excitement until the deal is done. It has been a long haul finding a home, with many disappointments along the way. Maybe today will mark a new beginning as well as an ending.
Several years ago Tom and I were on the Oregon Coast on the day of the equinox. The sun was shining. I recorded the sun going down on summer between the Twin Rocks.
Enjoy.
Good bye, summer. You have been lovely.
We've had rain, lots of it in short bursts, in the last two weeks, and everything has gone green again.
That means Tom has been out mowing the lawn regularly. And the moles have other yards to visit again, which helps us.
The vegetable garden has pretty much shut down, except for carrots and beets still in the ground, and tomatoes still coming on.
And there are still blowers to pick.
Tom has been taking geranium cuttings for plants for next year. This morning I cleaned up what is left of the display on the front porch.
Last weekend I took apart Irene's flower shop and emptied the shed, so that Tom could empty the greenhouse and start filling it up. Here are the geranium and plectranthus cuttings.
These are echeverias.
They have babies - off sets- and Tom has harvested them for starts for next year. The large pots will also come into the greenhouse over winter.
This afternoon is sunny and mild, and I found Tom working on edging the lawn.
I haven't done much outside in the yard for a while, except to go out and pick things. I am getting back to my exercise routine, and I'm trying to remove the extra pounds I added over the summer. I walk about 3.5 miles each day, plus a short walk after dinner. Soon that after dinner daylight will be gone. I'm also doing my physical therapy exercise routine.
While Tom was outside this week, I worked inside, getting the house work done, and getting to a few things on the "When I get around to it" list. I finally emailed my doctor and got a referral for the neuroscience department. I have been fighting sciatica caused by spondylolisthesis for a long time now. Now I am getting tingling down my leg and into my foot occasionally and there seems to be some fuzzy nerve stuff going on in one toe. I fear neuropathy, which caused my mother to lose feeling in her feet and hands. So I have an appointment with a neurology PA at the end of the month to see what the next steps are.
I also finally called tech support at Yamaha to see why my iPod Nano would no longer play on my receiver.
This happened before and I knew there was a fix for it. I had to be persistent with the tech support guy who wanted to "blame" my iPod or cable, but I finally got him to tell me how to re-set the receiver, and that did the trick. I wrote it down this time, in case it happens again.
This afternoon I took my camera out to see what's going on in my neglected garden.
Can you find the hummer on the fuchsia in the photo below?
And the chickadee on the sunflower? I was thrilled to see this. I actually successfully grew sunflowers that are producing seed for the birds!
Spiders are every where of course.
Old and new blooms on the same hydrangea.
Maybe I'll find some time to actually sit out here tomorrow, before the sun goes away again.
When it comes to soccer and football, I'm a sports fan. I watch every play during a Sounders match. Soccer is two 45 minute non-stop halves.
I try to watch every play when the Seahawks play, but there is so much non-playing time in football that I often have the newspaper or my lap top to occupy me when there is no action, and then I get distracted and miss plays.
Right now I am watching the Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday Night Football. The game is winding down finally at 9:30, with a 5:30 start. There was a 60 minute weather delay for thunderstorms just before the end of the first quarter, and a huge number of penalties during play that slowed things down even more.
With 4 minutes to go, the Seahawks have just recovered another fumble and lead 29-3. It has been a crazy game.
But we are winning! This is a significant game and win over huge rivals.
Friday night the Sounders won their soccer match over huge rivals Real Salt Lake and took over first place in the league.
Saturday the Washington State Cougars and the University of Washington Huskies won their football games. Even Oregon State and University of Oregon won, to give the Pac NW a great sports weekend. I didn't watch most of this, but I did pick up some of the WSU and OSU games.
Of course there were the Wolverines and the Mud Dogs too. I did watch them on the sidelines. Isaac's team won.
I'll follow the Sounders and the Seahawks, win or lose. But winning is fun!
