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Liz, your Sunday plans sound like a great day to me.

It's beautiful this morning here, too. The buyer dad and his brother (who happened to be in town this weekend) came by at 8 o'clock this morning to walk the property. Naturally, I went with them and named every tree along the way. You'd think they'd have wanted me to STFU, but they welcomed all the information. The brother (who lives in Texas) wants to relocate here, too, so it was a useful outing for them both.

And now I'm happily home alone again. I won't see the buyers again until the closing in mid-December, which is just fine with me since I don't relish becoming an unpaid consultant for the next 5 weeks about my home and property. I am grateful that they're excited about their new home, which is a very, very good thing. :-)

Today I'll continue decluttering and packing.

BTW, I'm infatuated with my latest breakfast craze, which is a homemade Egg McMuffin with a whole wheat English muffin, American cheese (the good kind, if there is such a thing), Canadian bacon, and an egg poached in the microwave with cracked black pepper. Here's how I make it:

1. Slice the English muffin in two and toast it.
2. Put the Canadian bacon and American cheese on one half of the toasted muffin for 10 seconds to warm the bacon and soften the cheese.
3. Microwave 2 ounces of water in a small bowl or cup for 30 seconds.
4. Crack an egg into the ho****er, pierce the yolk with a toothpick, and cover the container with plastic wrap.
5. Microwave the egg for another 30 seconds.
6. Put the drained poached egg on the other half of the muffin and pepper it. Then combine the two sides. Voila! Egg McMuffin.

Since some microwaves don't all heat as quickly or high as other microwaves, you may have to heat the water a little longer (maybe 40 seconds). As the recipe I read said, "You may need to experiment with the cooking time--but after all, it's only an egg." :-)

I'm sorry too, Diane.

My close friends haven't started dying yet, although some long-time business clients and colleagues have passed--people who were true leaders in my business world, whose deaths were a shock. And during COVID I lost a sister whose health had been declining for years. I probably haven't completely processed that yet. I hope my sisters and I can work on that when we're together in a few weeks for another sister's surprise birthday party.

Happily, on the kitchen appliance front the appliances already in there are all SubZero and Bosch. Therefore, because of how we want to use the kitchen, we have only 3 new ones to buy: a range hood, a wine chiller, and a new range top. We're keeping the refrigerator, oven, and microwave. We know it could be a lot worse.

Funny you should say that about the shopping. Seemed like that to us when we visited. The train sounds like fun - will love to hear how it goes. I think we will be back there next October as we have a family wedding in Scottsdale in mid-October.

The moving definitely gets old after a while. I too had a couple of drawers of deceased DH's personal items and all those pictures to sort through before the move this summer. I'm not sure I ever would have done it if I stayed in that home.