Things I'm Gonna Miss...Starting with Good Grammar

Sean and I are making an offer on a house in T-Bay on Monday so moving to the North is feeling really close and after much cleaning, de-junking, and de-funking, we're also ready to sell our house. Over the last three weekends I devoted much time to getting things in order so that we can do some private showings and then list the house if that doesn't work out.
Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your priest in confession. We're selling and taking offers.

There's a bunch of stuff that I'm going to miss about living at 127 Wood. Here's my list. I'm going to miss the following...

• Impromptu visits from local friends, like the ones below.
  

• The migration of bazillions of seagulls over our house every night at around 7pm. They're flying back from their day job at the dump to their home at the factory near our house. They sprinkle loving gull-dust on our car. It's how they show they care.
• Having a good excuse for not going out on the weekends - "sorry, we have to paint. Hey - want to help?" "sorry, we have to meticulously scrape paint off the wall that we will soon rip out - do you want to help?" Sorry, we have to clean up after our evil water softener or water heater, because they're currently spraying hot and/or soft water all over our possessions. Please, dear god, come over and help us"
  
  
  
  
• The fact that we could use the tip-in feature of our windows to clean them, but really - who cleans their windows?
• Having a 10 minute drive to work or an 8 minute bike to work
• Having a 10 minute drive home from work or an 8 minute bike home from work
• Vincenzo's! Do you think that Kahlua Toffee Bars would be able to make it through the federal mail system without tasting like dissatisfaction and burgeoning rage when they arrive?
• Being only an hour's drive from all the stores that I wish I shopped at, but don't? American Apparel, LuluLemon, MEC, H&M, etc. It's not that I shop at those stores regularly, but I could if I wanted to. All that choice will go away, and y'all know how I feel about choice.
  
• Jane Bond and the fact that the bartenders will make me fun drinks with secrets in them when I say, "Just make me something delicious in a martini glass".
• Katie 'n Wayne and the special time they're going through...'nuff said.
• All our So'Ont friends who we neglect to make an effort to see, but will wish that we did
  
• Watching the garden sprout, then grow, then take over the back yard.
• The Moscow Cat Circus next time it comes to town, because I guarantee they're not making a stop in Thunder Bay.
• Herrle's corn, and various other local produce products
• Relatively cheap gas - screw Ike - the gas in Thunder Bay is, and has always been, 1.36/liter
  
• Humidity - wait...
• Having a social life
  

My list could go on and on, but I'm tired and my fingers really want to go to sleep.

Before I go, I figure it's about time to put up some "Before" and "After" clips as we're about to put our house on the market. These clips illustrate all the work we've done on the house.

Before

The tour of the house starts at about the 4 minute 18 second mark.

After




PS - while searching to find that "Before" clip, I found this alternate ending to the movie. It's brilliant in its balance of simplicity and subtlety.