Why is it weekends in the summer always just fly by, wish the winter months could go by so quickly. This weekend was a whirlwind of activity most specifically because the realtor is coming to appraise our condo tonight, Gulp!!! Spent a lot of the weekend cleaning up, putting in a a new heavy duty outlet for the microwave I installed above the stove, upgrading an outlet to a GFI, cleaning any spot of dirt we could and numerous other home projects. Hoping our upstairs capet will pass the “test”, otherwise I will be ripping it up and putting down a bamboo floor, which of course would suck up another 40 hours of time I don’t have.

After looking at 50+ houses inside we bid on out a bid on the 3rd house we could actually imagine living at. Third times a charm, well not quite in this case. We put another offer in on a house and was no accepted, honestly the seller is out of their gourd given the amount of work that is required to fix it up. Whoever said house hunting is fun should be shot.

Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89. Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.