home tour
This weekend we had the home tour where 200 people walked through our house and we disappeared for all of it. We scrubbed this house so well in preparation. It will never be so clean, except perhaps the day we sell it. Steve carved the backyard to be perfectly flat, built rock walls, and put compost and grass seed down on top of the clay dirt. He built a front walkway in two days, finishing at 7pm, just before we drove 7 hours to Maryland. Seven roofers put a metal roof over our worn asphalt shingles. Two carpenters built stairs down from the porch to the backyard. Two painters painted the new gables. Two cleaners cleaned the spots I didn’t. I painted walls and scrubbed floors and found a place for clutter. When you know that 200 people will walk through your house, suddenly everything looks wrong. By the end, we had done everything we could. I took pictures before we drove away.
