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  • Chapter 66. The House is Sold.

    We closed on the house yesterday.  Prior to the official closing, we met with the new buyers, a couple, both lawyers in their early 30’s.  I had prepared a spreadsheet of items, contractors, people who fix broken things, electrical information, swamp cooler, you know, house stuff.  I also printed out information on the architect who designed the house…

  • Air.

    Chapter 1.   It wasn’t the house.  It was the land.   We settled here some 47 years ago.  The half-acre property sitting in the middle of an urban area gave us all we needed:  space for our two cats and two dogs.  And it would ultimately give us the place where we would acquire and say good-bye to more cats, dogs.…