Before The Home Tour

Some some of my neighbors, time is measured differently then the rest of us. They measure time by BHT and AHT. Before the Home Tour and After the Home Tour.

Sunday December 4 from 1:00 to 5:30 P.M. is the Southeast Seminole Heights Home Tour.

While the rest of us are planning Thanksgiving events and what we will do for Christmas shopping, they are losing their minds getting ready for the home tour. Grand plans that seemed simple and doable a year ago are now approaching scaling Mount Everest levels. These folks have entered that twilight zone world of BHT. They all talk about how their lives will resume AHT.

Last week the current and former members of the SESH Home Improvement Team helped out one of those hometour stalwarts, Sherry Simons. We painted much of the exterior of her house. She is also in the midst of remodeling her bathroom and her kitchen. She has not had a stove for weeks. Today her plumber connected up all of her bathroom fixtures. The floor man just finished today redoing her stone floors in her kitchen. All of the painting was not finished last Saturday so members of the team and other neighbors have come back Sunday and today to continue to help out. Other resident are also experiencing Home Tour issues. Some have never had any home improvement experience, and are knocking down walls and learning those skills very quickly.

(You have got to see Sherry's bathroom. It is great!)

The one benefit from being on a home tour, is that you get a lot of things done to your house quicker than you normally would have planned.

So when you walk into these magnificent homes, just bear in mind, if the home owner seems very calm, it is likely due to the combination of alcohol, valium, pot and chocolate they have been taking to deal with situation.