Real Estate Agents Visit

When a new house goes up for sale, the seller’s agent arranges a day for the other real estate agents to come to look at the house.  So the day was arranged.  Barb was playing in a pickleball tournament that day.  I had to get up earlier than usual and get the house ready.  Then I went out for a couple of hours. 

No agents showed up.  I guess they do everything over the internet these days and don’t go to the showing any more.

Facebook Advertising

Barb got the good idea to post the listing of our house on Facebook.  We were able to just put a link of the MLS listing on our home page and a picture of our house came up.

Barb Spying

We had our first Open House.  We had to leave the house for two hours.  So we decided to just go to our next door neighbour’s house.  Barb sat in the front room with our neighbour and spied on the Open House to see who was looking at our house.  She expected some of our nosy neighbours to come but they didn’t.  In fact, nobody came to the Open House.  She was very disappointed but she thanked our neighbour for the use of her house to spy.

Laura Wins Silver

Laura had traveled all the way from Vancouver to Halifax to compete in the Atlantic Canada pole competition.  She spent a month practicing her routines.  We were very happy when we saw on Facebook that she had won Silver in the Pro Category and Bronze the Doubles.  She also won the Best Tricks award.

Volleyball Friends

Barb hadn’t told her old volleyball friends she was moving.  She wanted to surprise them.  Unfortunately, our neighbour Julie Dustin met with Linda Becker and Jane Marie Obst and told them before Barb could tell them.

World Champions

I had spent the week watching the Fastball World Championships from Saskatoon on the internet.  Finally, Barb decided to watch the last few games with me.  She thought the Canadian pitcher was crazy the way he jumped off the rubber when he pitched.  It was very exciting to see Canada win the Gold Medal.  One of the Canadian players hit 3 home runs in the championship game.

Canada Dave

Barb and I went to Dave McAleer’s annual Canada Day Party with Barb’s old tennis friends.  Barb gave Dave the autographed Roger Federer cap that she won at the Phil LeBlanc Tournament a few years ago.

We were at the party for quite a while and Barb never told them that we were moving.  Finally, Debbie Pinder asked what the “really big news” was.  Barb asked her how she knew about it.  Debbie said she had met our neighbour at the grocery store recently.

Barrhaven is a hard place to keep a secret.