Crossing the Bridge

Ever feel like this picture. There may be something good waiting on the other side of the creek, but there is no bridge and the water is flowing fast, it's cold and you might slip on the way.... It's so scary your toes curl under and you freeze where you stand.

That is pretty much where I've been for the last couple of months. Putting our house on the market was tough. I had never been on this side of it, but opening your home is a very personal thing. Having people you don't know looking through everything... Many people don't even have their closest friends over and here I was cleaning up my closets for strangers. Thinking of it as NOT your home anymore is rough as well. Usually after a few weeks or months on the market, after a few showings, the right person comes along and your house if their house. Not so for us. Being that open and being rejected over and over pretty much sucks. After ten months on the market, we are calling it quits. Technically our contract runs until the 22nd, but no one has looked at the house at all since our last price drop a month ago, so it's pretty much dead.

Here I stand, having jumped in on the big rock in the middle of the stream, and now I'm all wet. Is it a failure to not sell? Or do I get back up and see what lies on the other side of the stream? Which path do you take when the one you've chosen looks like a dead end? I'm not sure today, but I'm going to get up and and give myself a little time to dry off before leaping again. I can't wait to see where life takes me next.

This One's for Esther

So it was brought to my attention that my blog has essentially died. I haven't posted in months and poor Esther has had nothing to read. My reply was that blogger has cut off my pictures (I have maxed out my space usage) and that blogging without pictures is like talking without my hands. I just can't do it! So, just for Esther, I am compromising. Here are some of my favorite moments from the last few months that I painstakingly downloaded into another photo site.

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

So far summer has been good to us. The only thing that could make it any better is one of these:

Three more weeks until our contract expires.

Perhaps a Solution?

I have been thinking that I my usage of this web page may be worth the cost of extra storage, but I wanted to check all my options first. I have checked into archiving without much avail, but I think my answer may lie in my Picasa account. Turns out that my laziness in resizing my pictures has prematurely used all my storage. At the moment the best potion I can find is in resizing every picture in the Picasa program individually. If anyone has a better option, I'd love to hear it! Spending that $5 a year to start over is sounding pretty good about now!

Blog Sadness

According to Blogger. I have used up all the room on this blog. Since I don't make any money off it and I don't want to PAY to have a personal blog I am pretty much up a creek.

So for now I'm putting this blog on hold. I'm really sad about it, but what are you doing to do?

St Patrick's Day

Food. Friends. Sun and Fun.

Hiking the Mountains

Spring is in full swing. My guys all have spring fever on top of spring allergies. I'm making an effort to see they all get in at least a walk around the block each day, but last week we made a special trip to two different mountain trails.

Rainbow Mountain was a short hike with just us. We did about half a mile and back with lots of playing on our favorite rocks.

At Green Mountain we met with friends and hiked the long trail around the lake, putting in another 2 miles.

Project 52: Week 11

Spring

I've been extra quiet lately, I know. Lots going on in my little head that I'm not sure how or whether I want to share it. Spring has sprung here and there are lots of things to get done. I'm spring cleaning the house for showings. AGAIN. Flowers to buy, a pool to clean, outdoor furniture to get ready and a time crunch.

Back to work...