It was in September 2018 that I had a feeling that it was time to sell and downsize, as Keenan and I had always talked about. I called my friend Lissa Lott, a great realtor, and she listed the house for us. I thought it would go quickly. We all thought it would go quickly. It went relatively quickly, but it always seems long. We got an offer in October and closed on December 5. We got a big fat check. We paid off that mortgage and deposited that check. We used it to buy our town home in Saratoga Springs. We also had money left over to buy furniture and to put toward finishing the basement and adding a bathroom on the main level. Who designs a home without a bathroom on the main level? Thankfully we were able to see an example of how it's done and our contractor, Dale Triptow, made that bathroom a reality.
So the fall was very busy: cleaning a house, selling a house, working, teaching Instant Pot classes in the house, getting ready for Melia's homecoming, and preparing for a wedding.
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| Santa Lucia breakfast at Grandma and Grandpa's house |
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| Our last picture in front of 923 East 1520 North |
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| Poor Mel comes home to an empty house and a lot of boxes |
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| The new place |
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| The "Wall of Boxes": everything that will eventually go in the basement went in our master bedroom. I do not do well with clutter. |
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| KC Cook, Starlyn, and Jenny help us move some stuff. |
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| The day we bought the house. We also moved in that night. |
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| I did this wall. I was pretty proud of it. Mementos from missions, weddings, Bass Lake, kids' art, family history, etc. |
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| Mitty loved the wall of boxes |
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