Emerging from hell....

The weather channel tells us that our last day in the 100 degree and above temp range was Friday....yesterday was 98 or so....today.....81. Tonight? 51...I. Can't. Wait.

The windows are open in the house this morning for the first time since we actually moved in. We we able to open them while we were just coming here to paint, but by the time we moved in, the heat had started, and we had to keep them closed.

The air smells SOOO good.

Rain should be coming soon. Nothing yet, but the radar shows some headed our way.

Highs this coming week? 80s maybe 90. Bliss, after a solid three months over 105, save a day or two here and there in the upper 90s.

This weekend, the party I suggested 6 or 7 months ago is taking place!! Dave's parents both turn 80 this year (Dad was in June, Mom is in Oct), and their 60th wedding anniversary is this year, too.

I could not let that kind of mile stone pass us by, so I started talking to Dave about getting with his brothers and planning something. Their family is NOT usually the type to do something like that....but THEY DID!!!

There are relatives in town from Kansas, Utah, Texas, and Virginia. Dave's Great Aunt Hazel in Virginia was the only one who couldn't come, as she has become too elderly and frail to travel.

We did not keep it a surprise, because we knew people would have to travel in from out of state if they wanted to come, and that some would probably be best off staying with Mom and Dad.

I was reminded during this planning that my parents would have celebrated their 60th anniversary the day before yesterday, had they not passed away. Hopefully, they're celebrating it wherever they are now.

In other news, my realtor FINALLY accessed the condo. I have no idea how or why my soon to be former tenant was able to PREVENT him from getting in there for TWO FULL WEEKS, when time is of the essence if I am to NOT default on my mortgage.....he has keys!!!

It's my property, he's my agent....what the fuck??

Anyway, he finally got in there Friday night, and said that she told him that she is having the carpet cleaned on Tuesday. This is good news. Now I don't feel so bad about giving her back that extra $100 she sent me that was NOT supposed to be refunded.

She's paying for something I was going to have to pay for anyway....so.....it's all good.

Supposedly, there is the first showing this weekend. I have also alerted another realtor I know back home and asked her to work the listing. She said she would.

If I don't get someone signed for Oct. 1, I am in deep, deep shit, and we've already lost the last 2 weeks of August for the search because the tenant was blocking the process.