We've come up to the Sunshine Coast, B.C., to the log house with the expectation of getting the house on the market. Ed is feeling well, less tired than yesterday, but still tired. We came up on Monday morning, after he had blood drawn for his labs (these are done once a week, happily in Point Roberts so he can walk to the clinic), and will return this Sunday at the latest because he has a doctor's appointment + blood labs on Monday, in Bellingham. And then Tuesday he has another chemo session.
We spent an hour or so yesterday with the realtors and there are some discussions about the asking price for the house still going on, but when those are completed, the house will go on the market. Up here, May 1 is the serious opening of the house buying season. We have had Ed's daughter Mia and our Pt. Robert's neighbor Tom McKenzie up here with us for the past four days (they left this afternoon), working to get all the outside tidied up, washing logs and deck, cleaning the basement and making a dump run, conducting a yard burn, dusting the big log rafters that run the length of the house on the inside, etc., etc. they were amazing in their ability to get to work and stay at it for hour after hour. As a result, we have made enormous progress. Ed worked with them and also getting the last run of trim up in the bathroom. This strangely compelling task has been in line for almost 30 years; the original owners didn't get it done, the second owners didn't ever get around to it; and we haven't done it for 20 years: but now, it's in the final stages, too.
I am still weeding out the saved objects from the thrift shop objects from the absolute reject objects. Almost all the quilted stuff has been resolved. Yet, it feels like there is a long way to go, especially after we talked with the realtors and I realized that in a week or two, people could be walking through the house. it was a kind of stunning revelation that the house had to be really tidied up at that point...no desk tops with piles of papers, cd's spread around a shelf, clothes not put away. so my current hope is to get all the loose things in boxes that will either go with us to Washington on Sunday, or will be put in a closet here with a shut door, to be picked up at a later date. Ed has mostly been working outside or on trim and resting in between, but he is confident that one way or another, all the personal stuff/goods will get taken care of. Tonight, we take a little rest from that and watch 'Out of Africa.'
