So John,
On Monday evening, I told a friend there was a 30% chance we’d end up buying a house by the end of the year. After a tour on Tuesday, I had our odds up to 50%–pretty likely actually. At least until we talked to our agent again today and decided not to write up an offer after all. Even in this market, 18% annual interest is a lot. Especially when it was just bought two years ago.
I’m thankful for working with an expert who tells us not to buy a place that’s overpriced. Or another place that will be awful to try to sell. Or that has more deferred maintenance than the price suggests.
I’m thankful that we have the flexibility to stay. Even if I never expected the housing search to take a year. Or if it did it was because we were losing bids. Not that we weren’t putting in offers. Nevermind winning bids and then failing inspections.
For now, I’m putting our chances of 2021 homebuying at 29%. The listings posted today weren’t inspiring. That’s okay. We’ll keep looking.
In This Week’s Box
- Honeycrisp Apples
- Kiwiberries
- Arugula
- Butternut Squash
- Cilantro
- Fennel
- Mixed Yummy Peppers
- Purple Fingerling Potatoes
- Sweet Onions
- Habanada Peppers
Garden Potential
- Starfish pepper
- Paprika
- Jalapenos
- Lombok peppers if we want them
- Few tomatillos
- Volunbeans (let ’em dry!)
- Last of the Roma tomatoes?
- Vorlon tomato
- Dahlias
Still in the Fridge
- Cucumber
- Figs
- Greens: Butterhead Lettuce
- Peppers: Banana
- Squash: Delicata, Red Kabocha, Acorn
- Sweet Potatoes
- Fingerling Potatoes
- Herbs: None
- Celery
- Sunchokes
Open Preserves
- Preserved eggplant
- Quince jelly
- Dill pickle
- Lacto-fermented & Lacto-fermenting green cherry tomatoes
- Lacto-fermented blueberry jalapeno hot sauce
- Pickled red onion
- Radish kimchi
- Sunchoke relish
- Quince jelly
- Kicky cranapple chutney
- Peach jam
- Apple butter
- Quince jelly
- Veggie stock
- Probably still more uninventoried
Starting points
- I’d forgotten the cucumber. We should use the cucumber! It’s the last cucumber from the garden. Classic cucumber, onion, and yogurt side?
- Squash + cilantro = we can do the mole verde butternut squash. Or acorn squash. Or Kabocha squash…
- Other cilantro + tomatillos + jalapeno for another green salsa.
- Apple fennel salad. Because this fennel cannot last as long as the previous one did.
- I want something light for the lettuce. Tomato and sweet pepper with a sweet vinaigrette.
- Whereas, I thin the arugula can go loud. Blue cheese and honeycrisp and roasted sweet potato with a balsamic.
~s
Planning Inside The Box 