Good news

Today was a day of good news. Firstly, the gutters were installed. I guess it only took them a couple of hours. It probably would have taken us all day, so I consider it money well-spent. Spouse went up on the roof and swept of a metric ton of pine needles as well. I had done my best a couple weeks before, but most of the debris was frozen to the roof, and we've had a couple good wind storms in the meantime. So that was also good.

Secondly, the appraiser's coming out on Friday. He shouldn't take long, since he's seen the place before. Hopefully he'll give the okay and the money can come out of escrow. I guess it takes a week or so for the funds to get back to us. In the meantime, we're going to go shopping for appliances. It looks like we can get some nice used stuff for not a whole lot of money, so that's probably what we'll do. Sorry, brother mine, you're going to be moving appliances this weekend.

And finally, we got a renter for our place! A guy came and saw it last week, and I guess he liked it. So we have to be out on the 16th so we can clean the place for a couple of days, and then it will be someone else's home. We're off the hook for our lease, no harm done. We're very, very happy, even though we're very sad to be leaving our place. We've loved our little apartment. It's treated us well, and it was our first home together. We'll miss it very much, but hey, what can you do? Upwards and onwards. It's a new adventure.