Wife-beater t-shirt and greasy cigar are apparently optional. lol

So I have a tenant- praise God!! And it's a really nice family. I hope this all works out. We've signed the lease for the year and they are clear that I could come back at the end of it and they'd have to move. We'll see what happens. The deal is even sweeter because they are going to use a lot of my furniture so really the only furniture I need to move is my piano to my sister's house and my bed. Now for the really great thing... in exchange for lowering the rent a little bit, they offered to let me store all my stuff in the basement instead of having to take it to storage. That's huge!! Overall I'm spending less money since the amount I lowered the rent by is less than the cost of the storage - but more importantly, it probably saves me several days. And as I look at the calendar and see how few days there are left (9 1/2 weeks... ominous film reference) a few days is worth quite a bit.

Anyway, the calendar is filling quite rapidly and I'm starting to feel a little frantic. We crashed this weekend since it was the first weekend in months we didn't have a commitment. Ben and I both slept in AND had naps. I think next weekend shall be the garage sale. I am home Wed Thu and Fri to some cleaning, purging, packing and yard work (getting people in to help).

We'll be in Toronto Aug 10 - 13, Guelph Aug 14 - 17, Collingwood Aug 18 - 20, Niagara Falls Aug 20 - 23 and back to Ottawa just before we go -so the last 2 weeks are completely spoken for. The rest is filling up pretty quickly too...