Tuesday Treasures #8

More family photos but this time marked as treasures because they are coming off the wall.  According to "house staging for sale philosophy", you remove all personal effects that may prevent the prospective buyer from seeing themselves in the house.

 

As we prepare for the sale of our house (see yesterday's post to get the backstory) I am packing up all the framed photographs that chronicle our lives.

The bedroom hall has been a perfect spot to display this passage of time.  I wonder where I will do this once we settle in to our new digs?

The daughters are now 35 and 30.  Where has the time gone?

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A Big Decision

Last week we visited a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) in downtown Columbia.  Remember that walk we took on Sunday the 28th?  Well one thing led to another and we really liked the location of the CCRC - walking distance of Whole Foods, restaurants, library, and other shopping.  

Friday I called a realtor and by Saturday afternoon we had signed the papers to sell our house!  We meet a second time with the CCRC on Tuesday and will know more then whether we have a long wait to get the apartment floor plan we would like.  If this house sells quickly we will have an interim move in our future, even in the interim we can take advantage of the activities at the CCRC.

Now until March 31st when the listing goes live I have major staging to do.  A stager will come later this week to walk through the house with me.  I already know all my family photos have to go and have started that process.  Packing and downsizing to move will come once the house sells.  And there will be a lot of downsizing involved!

Thankfully I have this blog that has chronicled this lovely house and property.  New adventures, new hobbies, new friends await us but we will not be saying good bye to old friends because we are only moving 10 miles south.  Closer in fact to some of them!

Lebanon, NH Church

In February when I was visiting family in NH for granddaughter's 2nd birthday, I went to church with them in Hanover.  Their church meets in the high school.  To get there we drove through Lebanon passing this church with its red door and greenish siding.  It sits next to a school and the swings are there to the left.  Not sure what the bell is doing out of a steeple.

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A Tale of Two Tails

So I can't tell much difference between one deer and the next except by size and if there are antlers involved.

Yesterday I was watching these two deers eat their way along the grass down the hill from my vegetable garden. 

 I was wondering if they would even attempt to reach the green leaves of the English laurel.  Last year they devoured those leaves and I almost lost the bushes.  This year I put up deer fencing around the four bushes and have kept the deer out as evidenced by these two that worked their way around the fencing. (The laurel is not visible in these photos but the green stake on the left side of the photo above is holding up one corner of the deer fencing.)  

As I watched I noticed the tails of these two. They were different. 

 Is this unusual to have one pointed and one squared off? 

 Now when I see a deer on the property again I'll have to take a closer look at the tail.

As a postscript I captured this lone robin on the fence of the vegetable garden.  Most of the winter the robins I've seen have been traveling in flocks.  Maybe this solo one is a harbinger of spring?

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