Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 7:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 66F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
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Realtor #3 turned out to be very competent and a good communicator. But a real steady-as-she-goes type, meaning not much get-up-and-go. She would probably work out in the end, but take longer getting there. I need someone that is going to advertise in more than just the MLS, as the buyer for this place is probably going to come from a major metro area looking to get away from the rat race. Had a number of another realtor I got from a neighbor, but it turns out she's far enough out of the area she wouldn't be available to show the house to prospective buyers, and I don't want just any realtor wandering around alone in the place. So it's back to the beginning with realtor #1, and should get his price estimate Monday and start the ball rolling for the listing.
Realtor #3 pointed out the dirty firnace filter in the hall ceiling and the dirty screens over the air intake for the inverters in the garage. The filter was easy to clean, but the grill was stained, so it got a coat of paint that I just happened to have on hand.
From there I got in a round of weed spraying, also killing time waiting on the tow truck driver to haul away the Vanagon parts car. He showed up right on time, had no trouble loading or with the paperwork, and left me with a hundred dollar check. Way easier than giving it away, which was the original plan.
Got going on one of my least favorite jobs of limbing trees. I'm good for about an hour before my arms feel like they're going to fall off, so I got started just before lunch. Right off the bat I found that some knuckle head put the chain on backwards, and unlike the Makita chainsaw, the Makita pole saw needed a wrench to flip the bar. It was all up hill back to the garage lugging that thing. Then I discovered that one of the Makita batteries wouldn't hold a charge, so there was another trip. But when finallly going, the saw worked well and I only managed to get clobbered by one branch. And instead of piling them on the side-by-side, I put the grapple on the tractor and logged some easy seat time. And since I had the tractor out, I dragged a couple of downed trees down to the burn pile.
At that point I finished up the weed spraying, going through almost all 2 1/2 gallons of RM43. Ouch, the price of that stuff has more than doubled in the three years I've been using it.
That got me to sundown and a hot shower. One of the trees had some poison oak growing at the base, so parts of me were already wet from hosing off the log chains anyway.
Today I'll pressure wash some patios, and finish loading the van for the trip home tomorrow. Might have a campfire tonight, but maybe won't feel like fooling with it.
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend!
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