Fruit Basket

Where can a find a reasonably priced fruit basket? We're going over to the new house tonight for the inspection, and the seller will be there to give us a lesson on how to run the electronics. I thought it would be really nice to bring over something like a fruit basket to show our appreciation.

Edit: I was able to answere my own question. I called Kowalski's Markets. They make a basket for you at what ever price you want.

Something to keep yourself busy...

Oh, this is brilliant!!!

Behold, the Secret Wars Reenactment Society

The grass is greener on the other side...

The back yard at the Humboldt house (where we currently live) is pretty much just dirt due to 9 years of dogs. I'm thinking that we should try and do some fix up on the lawn before selling the house.

Trying to re-seed the lawn is probably the cheapest, but how well will that really work? We'd have to get some good soil first.

Sodding the lawn would be the quickest solution, but much more costly than re-seeding. Where does one buy sod? I looked on homedepot.com, but they didn't have it listed. Menards.com doesn't have good product listings, so I couldn't search for it there. I guess I'll need to do a little leg work to explore this option.

Which ever option we go with, once we do that we'll need to keep the dogs away from the repaired yard. I guess that means more walking, which is probably a good thing for everyone.

Anyone have suggestions?

Facing change

Joe and I got to see the house again tonight. We met the inspector there at 6pm and walked through the house with him to see what he found. Thankfully he hadn't found to much wrong, just some minor things like some exposed nails on the roof, and some unfinished wood in a couple places.

Joe and I are both feeling a slight case of buyers remorse. It was so exciting to bid on the house and finally get it, but now we are faced with the process of moving and changing our lives radically. We've lived in our house for 14 years now, so moving is kind of scary.

I know the new house will be great for us, but it will present us with new challenges. We know our current house inside and out. We know what's good about it and what's bad.

The new house is really an opportunity for us to change our living environment, and how we interact with it. Yeah, we could have done that with our old house, but it also came with so much history and baggage. I'm really hoping that I can NOT bring this baggage to the new house.

We learned so much about how to maintain a home over these last 14 years. Many of these lessons were hard ones. For myself I can say that for much of that time I wasn't mature enough to handle the responsibilities sometimes. I didn't take pleasure in the work of house maintenance.

While I still don't find home upkeep to be a great pleasure, I now understand the need for it. Some of the problems in our old house went ignored or unsolved for WAY to long, and are only now getting fixed as we prepare to sell. I don't want to pass on our baggage to the new owners either.

There were little things in the new house that were bugging us a bit too. Things such as the upstairs carpet is a bit loose and wrinkled, the drain stops in the master bedroom sinks don't work right, and the outside of the egress window isn't finished. But these are all things that are easily fixed, especially if we don't procrastinated.

We were going to get a tour of the electronics by the seller, but when he got home he was sick. We agreed to reschedule for another time.