Bye bye, couches

We've made some progress in our attempts to get the house uncluttered and in shape to sell. The list of items is long but yeah, we're plugging away in spurts.

With me working 40 a week and Cate working 28-32 with no overlapping, we don't have a lot of opportunities to work on the house together and it takes a little coordination to get to the big projects. But I've been working from home a couple of days this week, which means I can pitch in on occasion.

I feel a lot more productive taking 20 minutes to weed out the garden or drill holes to hang curtains than taking a walk through the building at work.

But to the couches -- Sean had these in his condo more than a decade ago and in 1992 they were just too cool. (This might have been the only thing Sandy was good at.) Sometime shortly after we moved in here we inherited them and the kids have beaten them down over the past five years. They've been on the docket for departure. And today, Cate disassembled them and got them down to the curb.

After dinner I went back outside to work in the yard and help Elizabeth shoot baskets. Robert and Colleen jumped on the couches one final time and Robert said good-bye to them all. He'd named them Larry, Barry, Mary ... and two names that don't rhyme with Larry, but I can't remember.

Scratch another item off the list.