well, recycling, really… The paver installer came yesterday with his little bobcat and was excavating all the asphalt. He called and asked when the junk in the backyard would be removed…darn it…we were hoping he could get rid of it. So Andrew and I went to the house and Andrew backed the truck down the driveway and we filled bags and boxes with styrofoam and cardboard (the little stuff that could blow away) and lots of other boxes were flattened, bits of metal scraps and plastic bags that all the products come in, took away the old front door and scraps of plywood and stuff like that. Filled the entire bed up to the roof! They take everything except appliances, electronics and liquids. I was amazed that they take everything else! Rick and I had actually argued about it…he was right and I was wrong and here it is in writing for everyone to see – write it down on your calendar cuz it don’t happen too often 
Anyway, that was a relief cuz now there are but a few things to get rid of – we didn’t know whether to get rid of the old siding or not and there was a pallet we didn’t see until we’d already packed it all up. And it only cost $66.xx!! Wow…at that rate we will never get back our stupid CDDD (Construction Demolition Debris Deposit). We had to pay the City of San Jose about $3000 and then we give them receipts from our trip to the dump/recycling and we get reimbursed for our receipts. Its supposed to help people recycle vs just dumping the stuff. Since you pay to have it dumped OR you pay to have it recycled and if you recycle some money is returned to you. But there is no way will we have $3000 worth of receipts! And we recycled virtually everything! The asphalt and metal roof might make a difference, I suppose. The metal roof we gave to the roofing workers to recycle (they appreciated it!). I dunno…
Anyway, I’m glad that’s done and more landscape work will happen tomorrow. I scheduled the appliance installation guys for Tuesday and the cleaners come on Thursday and Friday to work on the inside. They can’t clean the outside until after the landscape is done so that will happen the next week. We’ll begin staging the weekend of Feb 6. We might actually be ready for sale by Valentine’s Day. We are thinking of having the open house party the following weekend. I can’t believe it!!!!!!!! wow
