Postponed

The house didn't pass inspection on Friday so we didn't close.  No keys.  We reached out to the realtor (who now lives down the street from our new house) and she guided us through what happens next.  Today and tomorrow will be a flurry of activities out the house - including fixing the duct work issues that caused the inspection fail.  Lots of final details - including a refrigerator and shower glass for the two master suites - final cleaning and final inspection.  We hope to have the keys later this week.

We bumped the movers back a week to Wednesday & Thursday next week.  If we end up getting keys this week, there are plenty of things we can start moving on our own - spending productive time doing things that need doing which will save us the hourly rate we pay the movers.  Hoping we can mostly have them for the big furniture items and the storage units.  All the little stuff - kitchen, pantry, small household items - we can hopefully move a lot ourselves.

Mother's Day was nice - Facetime calls from both sons.  J. and I decided to head out for a drive and headed south.  Beautiful valley.  We stayed off the highway and went back roads going South (a route we've never taken before) and took the highway home - retracing the route we took seven months ago when we arrived in Carson via Highway 88 through California.  It amazes me how deeply green the fields are - we've had very little rain.  In California, things only green up when there's been ample rain.  But here, the earth is pretty deeply saturated from snow in the Winter - and then the earth has to warm up enough for things to realize it's time to green up.  The trees behind our rental house were so dead looking, I was sure they wouldn't bloom.  It took a really long time for the trees to bud but when they did, they went crazy pretty quickly.  Grass fields are the same.  Once there's enough warmth in the ground, things take off. 

It was a nice day -

J. is playing golf today.  When he's home, I'm sure he'll put his clubs in the garage and then head to the new house.  Hoping he'll see big progress on the myriad of little things that need to be done before the loan will close.