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Saturday Snap – 90% of the Reason We Moved?

Okay, maybe not 90% of the reason but having a two car attached garage is pretty nice after fifteen years of parking on the street, scraping windows all winter and not one but two cars totalled while parked on the street (one kid who hit my car fessed up, one was a hit & run […]

¶ Posted 04 January 2020 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

You Know You’re A Nerd When…

…one of the best things you get as a “Christmas gift” is a literature organizer you pick up off Kijiji from an accounting office on your way home from work Christmas Eve at a fraction of what a new one would’ve cost! Plus you get to be *really* excited about organizing all your various papers […]

¶ Posted 25 December 2019 § Humour § Photo § Randomness § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: xmas

An Extra Emotional Day in “Hammond Housing”-Related News

Friday turned into an even more emotional housing-news related day then we expected. In addition to being the possession day of our old house for the new owners, we heard that the condo complex where we lived for a couple years during our time in Calgary was engulfed in flames displacing numerous residents only a […]

¶ Posted 22 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Sad § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, xmas

Five Reasons We Were Able To Sell Our House So Quickly

The deal is done, the papers signed at the lawyer, the only thing left to do to complete the selling of our old home and finalize the transition to our new home is to hand over the keys on Friday (okay, the realtors do that.) Anyhow, beyond the very obvious single answer that “There was […]

¶ Posted 17 December 2019 § Family § Jobs § List § MemoryLane § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Sold!

¶ Posted 11 December 2019 § Family § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Some Thoughts On Buying And Selling Houses in December

Shea and I made the offer on our new house on October 5 and took possession on November 22. For a variety of reasons, we were in a fortunate position where we didn’t have to make the purchase conditional on the sale of our old house and, in fact, we were fully prepared to float […]

¶ Posted 10 December 2019 § Canada § Family § Jobs § Saskatchewan § Wisdom § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: xmas

Saturday Snap – Coming Together Nicely

Moving day is done, lots of unpacking still to do but the new house is starting to come together! (Hard to believe those two black couches are ones we bought from The Brick over fifteen years ago when we lived in Calgary. They’re still in great shape to this day!)

¶ Posted 07 December 2019 § Family § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Home Inspection (December 2004)

As part of the process of selling our house, we dug through a box of old files we’ve kept over the years – manuals for appliances, receipts for things we’ve bought for the house, and the original home inspection report we got for our house in 2004. One of the things that stood out having […]