House purchase progress (and more turkey)
Our opening offer on the house we are after was rejected. That was expected. They’d have been silly to accept that first offer. They have come back with a counter-offer which we have accepted. It was a lower counter-offer than we were expecting, and to negotiate further would only be for small change and would probably create bad feeling. 
So, we accepted. Being a weekend, and the weekend after Thanksgiving, it is almost impossible to get things done so it looks like the next set of paperwork in the process will take place on Monday.
We spent Thanksgiving round at family, so we didn’t cook. yesterday in Wegmans we saw free-range, top notch fresh turkeys at 99c a pound. So guess what we had for a meal today? We invited some family round and recreated Thursday. I used local (US) stuffing. We’ve got some Paxo stuffing hidden away but I’m saving that for Christmas!
So, slow progress, but progress. Inch by inch we are moving towards settling in a family home.
Tags: house purchase, thanksgiving, turkey