December 10-11, 2014 Denver and Fort Collins, Colorado

Selling the sticks and bricks house. As we say in RV language. Making life simpler. 

The tiles are done. Came out great. Reed loaded his possessions into this pod in front of the house. Here they are picking it up. They lifted it, then backed the truck under it. It will go to Maine and they will store it until Reed finds a house to move into.

 

John spent 2 days cleaning out the garage in the Denver house. I never realized it was this big when it was full. I never remember seeing it this clean. Two car garage, room for a workshop and a green house, with 4 stained glass windows. This other piece is in the basement of the house in what was my studio. I had John remove this piece and I took it home.

I underestimated how long it would take to clean up. I called Katie and Katy at the last minute and they came over and helped clean up the yard. Then rushed back to Fort Collins for the annual ladies Christmas pot luck and white elephant gift  exchange. Karen and Claire host the party. They are pictured here with the coveted ( for dreaded-depending on who ends up with it) sex swing. It has been exchanged since 1992. It even comes with a history of who has had it. Along with a moldy shower curtain, a stretched out swim suit and many other unwanted gifts. I was the lucky recipient of the sex swing this year . . . We will have to take photos of it all around the country now.

 

Back to Denver to finish up. The house is as empty as it will get. This is the master bedroom upstairs. The couch was moved up there before I had a door put at the bottom of the stairs, so it is staying.  The bathroom has stained glass windows I made .

The living room and dining room. All of the woodwork is fir and has never been painted. I had the carpets taken up and the floors refinished.  Stained glass in the front door and window on the left.

This is the kitchen before I moved out. I love the butcher block counters and knotty pine cabinets.  I hate to think that the new owners will probably remodel and modernize the kitchen. Of course that is better than what is happening to most of the sold houses in the neighborhood, they are scraping them off and putting up modern square monstrosities to the property lines.  I put up Christmas lights on the fence. I think it will go on the market the first of next week.  It was a good house, but another chapter of my life and I have moved on. One of the neighbors made an offer on it already to the realtor. Lower than the asking price. Most houses in this neighborhood are going for more than the asking price. Guess we will see what happens.