just a whole lotta nothing...

that would be a statement to the contrary.

i guess that I could start back around July 1st. we get a call for a party on the 4th at the Fordyce's. sounds good... beer & fish. fireworks. Americana. several beers into the day, and after talking to many people the conversation somehow drifts into the house that is next to the Scotch's that has been for sale for almost 1 year at this point. it's run down, needs cleaned, and is just really old. we're talking 1846 old. tracy mention's that she's got a key for the place and if we wanted to look at the house, we could just stop by. little did she know that we would be stopping by the next morning.

they say that a person makes a decision on a house within the first few minutes of seeing it. and if you saw this house, you would have made up your mind also. just like we almost did. the key phrase is almost. when we walked in, the house just stunk of fish, stale air, dust and dirt, old food, and just old. every room that we went into, we just kinda looked at each other and shook our heads at each other. it wasn't looking good.

but like any decision you make, you talk about it. you mull it over, you think about all the pros and cons. we had been in our house on Mill St. for only a little over 3 years. we absolutely *loved* that house. the rooms were all updated - we just redid the kitchen and the bathroom off the kitchen. there was nothing we needed to do!

this house needs everything done. yard. bedrooms - all of them. kitchen is horrid. the yard is a literal jungle.

but then again, we've never been ones to sit idle on something and think things through.

let's do it.

we haggle and negotiate for about 2-3 weeks and finally get it for our price that we are comfortable with, and we now have to sell our house. crap. didn't we just do this?

so we get the house in order and start showings in the first part of August and leave to Hilton Head - on the way down, in the middle of NC we get a call ... Sold! so at this point we really need to get things done - cause soon we may not have a house to live in.

this is a two parter - second is coming up shortly.

- m