Olympic Week

This week as been awesome watching the Olympics from Vancouver, BC.  I applaud all of those who have worked so hard to get there.  We have some amazing atheletes competing. Congratulations to all of those who have won medals.  Can't wait to see the closing ceremony next week!

This was also Bunco week!  We enjoyed a great night over at the Braswell's house.  And Amy had the theme of the Olympics, too.  Good job Amy!  We had so much fun and can't wait until next month.  It will be at my house.  Still trying to decide on what kind of theme to have - maybe St. Patrick's Day!  We'll see.

Well, John and I got outside today - it was beautiful!  We finally got around to taking down the top from the messed up gazebo.  We are still undecided whether to replace the bent pieces of frame and top or just to buy a large umbrella to go over the table.  Ikea has a nice 13 ft. umbrella at a very reasonable price, so we might go in that direction.  We also had to drain some water off of the pool cover today.  All that melted snow left quite a bit of water to deal with.  We didn't get it all off, but the majority of it is gone now.  Believe it or not, we still have a little bit of snow in the front yard right up next to the house. I guess that area does not see much sunshine, but I would have thought with the rising temps it would have melted by now.  Tomorrow is supposed to be a little warmer, so maybe it will disappear then.  I am so ready for spring! :)

We are stilll trying to sell the house and will probably list with another agent in the next few weeks.  We still have the old sign in the yard, but that contract has run out.  Hopefully we can get things moving here in the next little while.  We really would like to start on the new shop soon.  Starting on the shop means getting closer to being near our church and friends and eventually in the new house.  Can't wait!

New to Blogging

Well, I've finally given in and decided to post a blog!  I'm usually not very good with words, so who knows if I'm going to be any good with this.  We shall see.

John and I are going to start building a new home pretty soon and are trying to get our current house sold.  We have decided that we really like Raleigh and plan on staying around here as long as we can.  We do miss our friends and family back in Jackson, TN, but we have formed new friendships here and really love our church family.  Anyway, we hope to get started on our new home in the next few weeks.  I will try to keep our blog updated with our progress on the sale of our home and the beginnings of our new place. 

We also just recently had a nice little snow here in Raleigh, but we escaped the large accumilation that they received up in the D.C. area.  Thank goodness!  I'll try to post some pictures. We did loose our canopy that we had on the back deck, though.  The weight of the snow just caused it to collapse.  Oh well, I guess we'll just have to get another one.  We should have thought and took it down before the snow fell, but we didn' think. 

Here's those pictures I promised you...1st the house, the canopy on the deck, the view down the street and the view from our front porch.

Our contract with the Real Estate company just ran out this past week, so we have to decide what to do next.  Do we want to extend the listing with our current agent or do we want to take it off the market for a little while and then relist it with another agent?  Lot's of decisions to make about that.  We hope to know what we want to do by this weekend.

We hope to be able to update this blog at least once a week, but you know how good intentions always are.