Completion on Dad's House

We completed on Dad's house today. I shut up the house today. Being inside the house wasn't too bad: it was empty, there was no furniture, it was very clean. It didn't look like an inhabited house. It is ready for someone else to make it a home. 

But being outside was different. It was more emotional. I suspect because the garden looked like the garden used to look when the house was inhabited; very little had changed in it.  The garden, unsurprisingly, also proved to be more photogenic than the empty rooms. There were some daffodils in bloom, in the flower bed in front of the shed, above, and around the tree on the lawn, below.

I teared up a little when I met Malcolm walking his dog. He said they miss Mick. So do I.