Deep pink or light red ones                  Columbine without the usual spurs                A deep lavender color

Photos of my columbine since daughter Val asked about them.....lots more than these in all shades of lavender and red etc.

I googled my address and found the MLS (multiple listing thingy) had wrong information about my home's square footage. They had the total much less than it is....just the main floor! Since so many search real estate online to find appropriate homes, I complained about it and put a little pressure on the real estate agent I'm working with. She assured me corrections would be made and later the same day called me about having another "Open House", so another is being scheduled for this coming Sunday.... opportunistic timing since the condo across the street from me is having one the same afternoon. My agent knows my agreement with her will run out in late June and I've told her I may take it off the market, try to sell it myself or sign with another real estate company. My cousin, a very successful retired realtor will be visiting me this month and I'll ask her what she recommends doing in my case. I've come down in price already and don't want to or can't afford to come down very much more. I'll be spending the week cleaning good and getting some flowers for the front steps and maybe some for the upstairs deck too.

If I were like my daughter, Murisopsis (aka "Val"), I'd write a poem about this. However, I'm too tired and too old. My dad and my maternal grandmother wrote many poems during their lives. I think Val got those "poet genes" but it seems they skipped my generation...I wrote a few but it was difficult for me! I wonder if it IS maybe a genetic thing. Well, Val did get my red hair genes and shape of my hands.

I took some more photos for the realtor's online Multiple Listing website. The Remax realtor has been only so-so about these things and I had requested better photos for the online viewing. Many people DO check out the listings online before they go house hunting, but my particular agent isn't all that tech savvy or else she is just more interested in selling houses priced in the $500,000 and up range. Here are some photos I'm sending to the company's employee who is in charge of the online virtual tours of homes on the market.

I have "uncluttered" my rooms so much, I'm having problems in finding stuff. Friend Elaine came over to drive us out for dinner a couple of weeks ago and asked me where husband Leonard was (she meant the container with his ashes). I had to think hard. I'd moved the ashes and a nice small olive wood carved statue of Jesus the Good Shepherd from their usual places on an end table...it took a couple of seconds to  remember but then said before thinking how it would sound, "Oh, he's in the hall closet with Jesus." Elaine burst out laughing and came back with, "Well, good! Maybe they can talk to one another in there." We've both lost our husbands but not our sense of humor, thank goodness!

My front yard looks really nice this spring with all flowers coming up and the tree and lilacs blooming.  I'll add some photos of the kitchen, bedroom, office, family room and other bathrooms...but this is a start. If the agent with whom I signed doesn't do anything, I'll get someone else at the end of June. I'd really like to relocate during nice weather if possible....and have the girls take the furniture they'd like of the pieces I won't be keeping. In the meantime, I'm keeping fit by exercising 3 or more times a week at the cardiac rehab center....for selling one's home and moving is darn hard work!