Maddy and Chris went shopping for a house in Ballard. One of the highest priced neighborhoods in Seattle. They shopped and searched, poking around all sorts of places in and out of their pricerange, but each time they went to bid, were beat out by all the other little buyers running around Ballard. Slowly it dawned on them, they'd need to be sneaky to get a little house! So the next house that came around, a large old craftsman owned by the scarriest pack rats to ever live in Seattle, Maddy and Chris pounced. They offered three weeks free rent to the pack rats to get all their stuff out (with a sneaky clause that if they didn't, Maddy & Chris got to keep some money for "clean up"). 9:00 came and went on moving day, but still the pack rats scuttled about. 10pm, 11pm, 12am.....finally, at 1am the pack rats were kicked out and the locks were changed. Maddy and Chris slowly looked around, and this photo above is just a sample of the huge stacks or crap left scattered as far as the eye could see. They even left the dishwasher full of dishes. So now the work begins....
Maddy became the superhero "CLEAN GIRL" and I became "TRIM GIRL"
This of course was due to my amazing talents at painting trim.
See, behind us you can see the beautiful new hardwoods.....oh, it'll be so pretty when it's done!
And then, next summer, we shall sit upon this porch in rocking chairs laughing about all the months of painting, scraping, cleaning, demolishing, and just plain work it all took to buy a little house in Ballard. But the mint juleps will be lovely.
Maddy and Chris went shopping for a house in Ballard. One of the highest priced neighborhoods in Seattle. They shopped and searched, poking around all sorts of places in and out of their pricerange, but each time they went to bid, were beat out by all the other little buyers running around Ballard. Slowly it dawned on them, they'd need to be sneaky to get a little house! So the next house that came around, a large old craftsman owned by the scarriest pack rats to ever live in Seattle, Maddy and Chris pounced. They offered three weeks free rent to the pack rats to get all their stuff out (with a sneaky clause that if they didn't, Maddy & Chris got to keep some money for "clean up"). 9:00 came and went on moving day, but still the pack rats scuttled about. 10pm, 11pm, 12am.....finally, at 1am the pack rats were kicked out and the locks were changed. Maddy and Chris slowly looked around, and this photo above is just a sample of the huge stacks or crap left scattered as far as the eye could see. They even left the dishwasher full of dishes. So now the work begins....
Maddy became the superhero "CLEAN GIRL" and I became "TRIM GIRL"
This of course was due to my amazing talents at painting trim.
See, behind us you can see the beautiful new hardwoods.....oh, it'll be so pretty when it's done!
And then, next summer, we shall sit upon this porch in rocking chairs laughing about all the months of painting, scraping, cleaning, demolishing, and just plain work it all took to buy a little house in Ballard. But the mint juleps will be lovely.
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... would that be a neighborhood for us?
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