It was an early morning—6 bells rang, waking me out of my slumber to get up and get ready to pick Natalie up from work, so she could finish baking her apple pie for our morning walk-through guests. After she finished baking her pie and the kitchen filled with the pleasing aroma of cinnamon and baked apple, we made our way to Stillwater so Natalie could sleep at my parents’ place and I could roam downtown Stillwater and take pictures.

I had a few things working against me—caffeine from the coffee making my hands shake and the utterly intense wind. I would have brought my tripod, but it’s so much to lug around, that I settled for my monopod. I think out of the hundred photos I took, there were a tiny handful that I’d actually show to anyone; and of those only six that I would eventually put up onto my gallery. All six can be found in my Objects & Abstracts gallery; my favorites being Steps to Smooth, The Fly (which did require a bit of post processing to get the rich contrast in color), and Playground in Motion.

After we got home from my parents’ place—around 3 in the afternoon—we noticed the gale winds were blowing in West Saint Paul as well. Unfortunately, some of the shingles barely could hold on throughout the 60 mile per hour wind gusts we were getting.

So guess what I got to do… I went to Home Depot to buy a ladder (I didn’t own one) and I got to nail down the shingles so that we wouldn’t have any blatant leaks… for now. SO…. I get to call the insurance company tomorrow and have a person take a look and survey the damage.

The last thing I need is to re-shingle our home. I guess we’ll deal with that bridge when we get there.

Oh… and the showing? Well, there was no sign of anyone having dropped by. No Realtor cards on the counter, no one ate any of the pie that Natalie worked on, and none of the info sheets were taken. What’s the deal? I felt like my time was wasted, having to leave the house for a few hours (and all the preparations I had to take to get the house ready for showing). But regardless, we hope that we’ll get some more showings in the days and weeks to come.

May 6, 2007, 7:23 pm

Filed under: Home Ownership, Photography

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