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 …
Category Archive: New House
Dec 14
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 …
Nov 09
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 …
Oct 21
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 …
Oct 19
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 …



