Major milestone on the house

Today was a major milestone for getting the house on the market. They came today to take photos for the listing. We used that milestone to give us a hard deadline to get everything done. It's been 16-hour days for 3 weeks or so, but the house was finally ready today! The house looks fantastic - even the real estate agent was impressed with the transformation. And the photographer said our master bathroom was the cleanest she had photographed to date. We're so happy with it, we're thinking of staying here - NOT! :-)

All that said, we did cheat a bit. We have two rooms and a garage which are still not ready, and several closets are partly full. Half the garage and one of the rooms are full of stuff going to either storage, our daughters, or to be sold. The house will be officially listed for sale by next Thursday. Meanwhile, tomorrow we're signing a lease on a climate-controlled storage facility to keep some of our stuff while we're gone. If all goes according to plan, we'll move all the storage stuff tomorrow with a U-haul trailer.

This weekend, we are going down to the boat to move it up to Beaufort, NC. We will be having Tahina hauled-out of the water to install equipment for the big trip, and to perform some maintenance tasks (more on this later). I'll be pretty tied up for the following two weeks at the boat yard. But, since the house will be mostly done, our focus should rapidly shift to boat preparations and final details on getting our lives and finances in order for the trip. The checklist is really huge, but we're knocking things off rapidly.

Wish us luck!