This week the house was sold – YAYYY!!! Well, at least we think so. There was an offer and an acceptance and then the lawyers got involved 🙁 A clause in the contract which the buyer’s lawyer was not happy about. Very minor and easily sorted but has put the process back a bit.
But that’s not what I wanted to share with you. What the sale of the house has done has made me realise that very shortly we will be gone from there permanently. I’m finding that I’m noticing things around the place which I hadn’t before. Having lived in the one place for 11 years we’ve made quite significant changes. There’s the rosemary plant which we brought home as a single stem and has now turned into a thick hedge nearly 6 feet tall (that’s about 2 metres for you youngsters). Also, the lemon tree which came in a small pot and is now producing beautiful lemons at an incredible rate (after a year where we wondered if it was going to do anything at all). And the 20 foot tall olive tree given to us by some friends, the water tank where we get our wonderful-tasting drinking water (filtered using a ceramic filter), solar panels producing electricity – our power bills have been a steadily increasing CREDIT for some time, a vegie garden where we decide what to eat based on what we’ve got in the garden and lots more.
All these are things which we won’t have once we move out. While the move is the best thing for us at the moment, it has created a bit of nostalgia and brought to mind the words of Joni Mitchell – “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.
Are there things in your life which are worth acknowledging and enjoying?
Till next time…