I Shoulda Had My Camera With Me!

Today was another clean-up day at Mom's. Lauren was the only sib who couldn't make it. Marty showed us pictures he had developed from old negatives he rescued (when the rest of us would have pitched them.) We were glad he saved them. They were pictures of Mom's side of the family and from Mom & Dad's wedding. It was cool to see them in color as all we've had were the black & white proofs they never returned (in typical Mintman fashion!)


You could tell Lauren "the cleaner" wasn't there, as the four of us stood around talking the whole morning, then went to lunch at Culpepper's. Finally we got to work sweeping and mopping the basement.

I joked that we should bring the hose inside the house and down to the basement, and Chris actually did it! All the good the mops and buckets of water were doing was slopping around mud water.

(And he offered all of us a drink just like in this cartoon!)
Then Barb and Marty started scrubbing the walls. Then Chris tore down the rotted wall between the laundry room and former junk room.

The next plan is to get rid of the remaining junk, slap some paint on the living room walls and hallway, shampoo the living room carpet, get the house appraised and then hopefully make a quick "as is" sale. It will be good to get the house sold so we can finish up with probate and go on with our lives.