Knitting; House Sold

I've finally gotten back to consistent work on the log cabin blanket. In part because I just want to finish the damned thing. Okay, that was harsh. I really do like it ... if I didn't, I'd just stop now and declare it a lap blanket. Or give it to the Poo. (My dog ... Tyler ... he's a cock-a-poo ... which at some point we transliterated to "the Poo" ... anyway)

But I do like it, and so want to make it rather large, so it will be multiply useful. So I'm plugging away at it. It'll probably take me the rest of the summer of steady work to finish it, but hey - it'll be done in time for the cool fall weather. Anyway, it's the process as much as the finished product. If I just wanted knitted things without doing the knitting, I could buy them.

In other news - we sold the house already. Once I decided not to move into my dad's house, we needed to put it on the market. I didn't get around to that till last Tuesday, and today - one week later - we've got a purchase agreement. Amazing. Of course, I suppose just having the signed purchase agreement is not a sale done ... but I'm pretty confident that it's going to go through. The buyer's been pre-approved for a loan in excess of what we got for the house, and I don't expect the house inspection to turn up anything that's going to be a problem. I know the house is in excellent condition.

So that's one thing done, but now the fun really begins. Now I have about 6 weeks to clean out the house. To take everything I want, pack it up, and get it into storage; and to arrange an estate sale of anything that's left. Fortunately I'm not doing this alone. My brother and his family will also be taking some of the stuff from the house, and he's agreed to handle setting up the estate sale. The Dread Reverend and I are going to rent a storage unit this weekend, and once we have that, I can start packing stuff up and moving it from the house to storage.

I have mixed emotions about all this. On the one hand, it will be good to get it done rather than having it hanging over my head as something I still have to do. On the other hand, I'm not looking forward to it, because it's going to be hard, going through all of my mom and dad's stuff, and choosing what to keep, and what to simply get rid of. Stuff that was important to them, just 'gotten rid of.' It bugs me. But ... I have to find a way to deal with it all some time.

Amidst all this is getting ready for Pennsic, too. Wow, it's going to be a busy summer.