Hello from Ohio. It was a lovely spring day yesterday. We arrived at the new home at 9:00 a.m. to meet the inspector, Kelly Perrault, who was born and raised in Alberta, Canada, and has a textbook Canadian accent. He evaluated the outside and then took us around to tell us what he’d found; then he did the inside and we got the inspector-eye view on that as well. Basically, the house is in very good shape. Kelly found a couple of issues with flashing on the roof, the front steps, the wax ring under one of the toilets, and one of the bathroom fans. We won’t know the results of the radon test until tomorrow. Some homes we looked at in Troy do have radon mitigation in place – our house doesn’t. Either that means earlier radon tests were low or we need to have radon mitigation.
After the inspection, Penny and I went to West Milton, a small town nearby. There’s a business there called the Spice Rack – all kinds of spices packaged in 4 ounce containers (some in 8 oz. or larger), plus bulk foods like oatmeal, sesame seeds, and sliced almonds in bags. Great store and absolutely wonderful prices! Wait till I get my mom out there.
Bob went out to Charleston Falls while Pen and I were in West Milton. When I last saw the falls in October, they were barely dribbling. Bob’s pictures show a lot more water coming over – which makes sense with the recent rains. Spring wildflowers are out, too. Not the same as California, of course. Species like violets, lilies, and hepatica are common – not a lupine or a buttercup in the bunch. Bob found a snake while photographing flowers. I had to include the picture.
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