So Long, House?

Lately we've been getting some pretty strong indications that our landlord is going to be selling our house (an appraiser came by yesterday, and a few months ago potential buyers visited). Although nothing has been officially communicated to us, we're starting to prepare for getting 30 days notice by browsing around the neighborhood.

All this is very sad since we love our neighborhood, our house, and the front and backyard we have here. The funny thing is that Tori was really the one who insisted on moving in here and I disagreed and wanted to move to a cheap apartment and save the money. She won that battle and, as occasionally happens, it turns out that she was right.

In addition to the money, I was also worried that we'd have a hard time downsizing once Tori eventually stops working and now it turns out that day is coming sooner than we had planned (the downsizing day, not the stop working day). We will likely need to move into an apartment with no yard, which is particularly sad now that Zadie is at the age where we can close the gate and let her play back there by herself.

But we're just going to cross that bridge when it happens since we'd like to delay moving as much as possible. This is also because we'd have to go through paperwork hell in order to get everything inspected if Skip is not technically ours by that point. We'd really like to avoid that!

But for the time being, we really enjoyed our yard today and soaked up the first sunshine in a few days with a game of Scrabble.