We moved out of The Rice Paddy on October 23, 2024, and finally settled on the sale on Friday which was the 26th of September. Not quite a year, but close enough.
For reasons which totally mystify us, the settlement was at an office in Elkridge which is Howard County, on the far side of Baltimore. The agent, the folks who bought the house, and the Rices live in Harford County which means all of us had to drive quite a distance. Do not ask me to explain this.
The buyers are delightful people. They have two children – a son I’d guess is about two and a half and a five-month-old daughter. The wife is stunningly beautiful and very sweet. She likes the way I had fixed up the side bedroom and said she wanted to fix up the Barbie (R) house we had built into the dining room wall. I told her I still have most of the furniture I had made for it, and all she had to do was yell and I’d drop it by. They are well aware of all of the quirks of the old place, but I did give them a note warning them about not overloading the bathroom with too many heat-producing things. No more than two – space heater, curling iron, hot rollers, blow dryer – one from column A and one from column B, as the old Chinese restaurants used to say. Replacing the fuse involves a step stool and a flashlight. As I told them, it is a lesson quickly learned.
As we were driving home The Squire remarked that he hoped they hadn’t bitten off more than they could chew. I reminded him that my parents had said the same thing about us when we bought it!
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