Half Staged

Last night our house was a big empty. Tonight it's half staged.

Having strangers come into your empty house and put stuff in it is, to say the least, a little trippy. They're not quite done, so I guess we're in some kind of staging limbo. It'll all get wrapped up tomorrow. Then, there will be pictures for the website, followed by inspections. On Tuesday, the real show begins.

I have to admit, the place is looking pretty good! I did take "before" pictures of the empty rooms. It'll be very interesting to see the "after" shots. It feels like we're in the middle of a show on HGTV!

One minor but frustrating casualty of the day: the one and only piece of furniture we want to keep (and the stager wanted to use) got scratched moving it from our living room to our dining room. We're not happy. But, we'll work it out.

The better part of our day was about packing stuff up and, when that wasn't possible, shoving stuff into closets. Once the stagers are out of here and the photos are shot, we need to free up a bit of closet space.

We are SO thankful that we did all the work we did to prepare for this move when we did it. As a result, our closets had plenty of room to accommodate a few extra things!

A treat in our day was a visit to the city to meet with the Dean of the School of Journalism at our beloved alma mater. She was captivated by the story of our future fulltiming adventures. She encouraged us to start a blog and record our travels. Done! We gave her our card with the address to Bullwinkle's place. She looked these two long-ago J-school grads in the eye and said she'd bookmark the place. We were flattered! She also encouraged us to contact someone at our alumni association to discuss a very intriguing possibility for doing some kind of work on the road. It's just an idea, and a remote possibility at this point. But, who knows? After all, we were talking to the Dean!

Back at the ranch we sold more furniture and managed our Craigslist correspondence. It's been another long day. We look forward to experiencing what it's like to be fully staged tomorrow.

It feels a bit like we're two steps away from the peak of the mountain. In just a little while, we'll be coasting!

We can't wait.