SECRET...

 SORRY I KEPT A SECRET FROM ALL OF YOU.

It's something that has been going on for about 3 months now.

Three months ago I started a BIG de-clutter here.

There was an ulterior motive, besides wanting to get rid of surplus stuff around here.

This is why:

ABOVE: We are selling this home and moving on!!!

Yep, Stew made a suggestion three months ago, and instead of waiting a few years (as he thought we would), I jumped head first in and started the process.  I don't do 'waiting' too well!

And within three months I had convinced him now was the time.  And we put our home on the market three weeks ago!

We have our 4th Open Home this afternoon.

So there ya go.  Lots of stuff has been going on here, and will continue to 'go on' until we sell.

We have decided not to divulge any other information about why we are moving, or where, for privacy sake.  

When we first listed our house, we did it through Harcourts.  But our agent moved to another Real Estate firm, and we decided to stay with her, and so we moved too.

There will be a new, BIG billboard up outside our home sometime next week.

Every day for the past three weeks, the first thing I have done is get the house 'spic and span', just in case I get a phone call saying there is going to be a private viewing.

We have had a few now.  It is stressful.  It is tiring.  But I'm coping.  

Our daytrip yesterday was so needed.  I wanted to get out of the house, far, far away!  I needed a break from it all.

It's only been less than a month, but I know it could drag on for a few more months yet.

I hate selling houses!  HATE IT.

But, it's something we thought about, discussed, wrote a list of PRO'S and CON'S, and decided it was the right thing for us to do.

All going well, I will be fluffing around and re-arranging furniture in a new home!

Are you surprised, or did you guess our news?

ONWARD...

9.35 am.

We have spent the morning getting the house ready for this afternoons Open Home.

We've got it down to a fine art now.

It only takes about an hour!

But then, we've had plenty of experience in this eh?

This move will be to our eighth home since we got together. Not counting the home I was living in, at Whitianga, way back in 1985.

My God, we will have been together FORTY YEARS next September.  

How does time fly by so fast? 

So back to right now,  I've got a nasty headache, so have taken some pills and am lying down for a while. 

We don't need to do anything else now, until the last quarter of an hour, when we make sure there's no dog doo doos on the ground, and turn on all the lights.

Then we bugger off and leave it up to the Estate Agent to do her thing.

7.44 pm: We've had a busy afternoon/evening.

Open Home went OK.  Small turn out, which is the norm for now.

Our friend Jacqui from Tauranga arrived just before our Open Home.  So she took herself off to The Base, and came back for dinner.

Steve, Bex and the kids came for dinner as well.

I cooked sausages, meatballs, hash browns and salad.  That went down well with everyone. 

Steve had steak, eggs and cheese as he's on a different diet to cater for his health issues.

ABOVE:  The three 'girls'.  

ABOVE:  Marley being adorable.

ABOVE:  The girls begging for a tid bit from Steve.  He obliged, of course.  😊

It's now 7.50 pm and everyone has left and it's back to just him 'n' me.

Catch ya tomorrow.