Kathy called me at work Friday. Seems the two girls who had gone through our house over a month ago were interested. Their real estate agent called to say they wanted to stop by about noon on Saturday with the girls and their parents.

And their we were with a stained ceiling. (See “Leak“.) So Kathy and the kids worked hard Friday night cleaning the house while I primed and painted the ceiling. Kathy had checked to see how much paint we had left from painting our walls and left the top loose. I carefully covered everything in the kitchen with newspaper, so when I shook the can and spilled paint on my shoe, it ran onto newspaper and not the floor.

I didn’t have enough paint, so I had to spread it thin, but it looked a lot better.

Then Kathy made us stay up until 2 a.m. watching the Braves beat the Dodgers 1 to 0.

We finished cleaning the house in the morning. I took Nicole to Lauren Butker’s birthday party. Danny and I drove down to the stadium to buy tickets for the Human Astros [sic] game on October 4. I let Danny drive around in the big empty parking lot.

Meanwhile, Kathy greeted the real estate agent, girls, and their parents. She took the real estate agent aside to tell her we had dropped the price to $60,000 and that we were paying a 5% commission. The agent seemed surprised at the low price.

It is now Sunday, and we haven’t heard a thing.

Last night we went over to celebrate Grandpa’s 49th birthday. We gave him a neat tavern puzzle called the Iron Maiden. I had figured it out in 5 minutes the night before. He figured it out in under a minute! Kathy whispered to me that we would get him the hardest one for Christmas.

Then I brought in the famous 12 nails on the bottle trick. That one was much more challenging. Tommy figured it out after 30 minutes. He is the first person I’ve seen figure it out with no hints.