The last few days have been encouraging with rooms being finished up by the diligent workers and our furniture arriving. Today we sold the house! We had been negotiating with other buyers who wanted a contingency on selling their house, but then other buyers came in and made a nice bid with no contingency. We were lucky neither tried to lowball us. I dunno about the rest of the housing market, but we didn't do too badly on this sale. We are very relieved and want to thank Bret's parents for all their hard work making it ready and supervising the movers, etc.

We thank Suzanne for all her hard work maintaining the house while it was up for sale. Mr. Brackett gets a thank you for his unflagging hospitality and patience while I sat on his porch taking cell phone calls and secretly peeking at the potential buyers from across the street. Our real estate team pulled through for us and we are of course relieved to be owners of only one house again.

So, on with the cottage progress...