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TV in the Forest

When we lived in Bellevue we got our TV via satellite and watched it with the help of our very handy DVR.  The picture was great.  We had lots of channels.  The DVR made watching and recording TV shows a snap. Then we moved to the forest. Because of the many, many trees surrounding our [...]

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Selling Your House – Living Through Showings

We recently sold our home.  It was quite an adventure!  For the last few Mondays I’ve been posting about the experience.   What surprised me.  What worked for us and what didn’t work.  Today’s post is the last in the series. I saved the thing I hated the most about selling the house for last.  Dealing [...]

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Selling Your House – Are Open Houses a Good Idea?

We recently sold our home.  It was quite an adventure!  For the next few Mondays I’ll be posting about the experience.   What surprised me.  What worked for us and what didn’t work.  Today’s post is about open houses. Four years ago, when I was putting my house on the market, I was told by real [...]

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Laundry Day

Our rental house didn’t come with a washer and dryer.  We haven’t had time to buy new ones yet so we’ve found another solution. There’s a lovely laundry service in Port Townsend.  We put our dirty laundry in bags and take it to them.  They clean it and give it back to us the next [...]

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Selling Your House – Photo Appeal

We recently sold our home.  It was quite an adventure!  For the next few Mondays I’ll be posting about the experience.   What surprised me.  What worked for us and what didn’t work.  Today’s post is about real estate photos. In the past people talked about “curb appeal”.  While that’s still important, photo appeal is equally [...]

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Announcement – We’ve Moved

The Man of the House and I have sold our house and moved from the Bellevue area to the Olympic Peninsula.  Instead of living in a city of 120,000, we now live outside a town of 9,000.  Instead of driving for 5 minutes to get to the grocery store, we now have a 15 minute [...]

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More Heat Wave?

Sorry it’s been so long since I posted.  At first I was recovering from the heat wave.  (I don’t think I could ever live in the desert.)  Then there’s been developements with our search for a new home.  I can’t talk about it yet, but it’s made me busy as a bee.  Now that I’m [...]

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Sequim Lavender Farms

The Man of the House and I are still searching for the perfect home for us.  Sequim, Washington has always been on our list of possible places.  After reading the Lady Farmer Parables post on the Sequim Lavender Farms, I’m ready to go right now!

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