Happy Saturday!
So far, it’s nice, 70 degrees, outside, supposed to get up to 88 later today.
Probably about the time we go to pick up groceries at 2.
I fell asleep posting yesterday. I know I slept for at least 2 hours, possibly 3. The rain beating on the windows woke me up. I think I need a day of sleep.
Today is going to be busy with paperirk stuff.
We need to sign the estate stuff and mail it back today.
I want to make copies of everything before we mail them back.
Both of us need to sign all the contract stuff for the offer on the house. That is all digital, and I haven’t even told my son we’re doing it. He’s sleeping right now, and I’ll let him sleep a bit longer.
I have to open a TD Ameritrade account for myself. My son already has one. Then that info needs to be sent to NIece1 so she can transfer the funds. I do NOT want my niece to have our account information, but I think there is no way around giving it to her.
The real estate agent was going to make closing in 14 days. I said I don’t think we can do it that fast. We have to send in the forms, receive our checks, deposit the checks which will probably have a 10 day hold on them. I will dip into my stock for the additional cash needed and leave my son’s account alone. I’m not sure how long it will take to receive that money. I’m debating taking from his annuity. He has to take something out this year, or pay a penalty.
If our offer is accepted, closing will be around the 31st.
If it’s not accepted, then back to looking. Or still looking, because this morning I was out looking to see what is out there.
A few of the houses I was interested in already are pending.
If we weren’t getting groceries today, I would be taking my son back to Sonic. I was very disappointed with my sandwich yesterday. It was much smaller than it used to be and pretty tasteless. I wanted lemonade and was thinking about driving across town to Chickfila, but I found out that Sonic’s lemonade is pretty good.
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Happy Sunday!
It was 70 degrees and muggy at the park this morning.
We were the only ones there until the man with the dobie showed up. He went on the small side though.
I shouldn’t laugh, but I kind of laugh because so many people bring their dogs to the park and expect to have a nice walk down the ramp from the parking lot, make their dogs sit before crossing the path to the gate. Then another sit at the gate, a nice sit inside the cage while they remove the leash, a dog who sits quietly while they open the second gate, and only enters the park when they give the release command.
Yeah, that works. LOL
Instead, you have lunging dogs, dragging their owners the entire way down the ramp, across the path, and to the gate. The owners who decide to come down the grassy hill instead of the ramp usually end up on their asses.
The whole time the owners are yelling SIT! SIT! WAIT! STOP THAT! SIT! SIT! WAIT! DAMNIT! STOP!
Of course, dogs can be trained to walk nicely, sit, and wait.
The dog park just isn’t the place to do it, train them in a quiet place first and work up to the park. Still be prepared, because even the best trained dogs can get a little wild when they get to the park.
On a more serious note, today a woman was walking her very large, very young, very out of control puppy past the park and she ended up being pulled down and dragged to the fence. I felt bad because my dogs were standing at the fence, they weren’t barking or anything, just watching, but maybe if they hadn’t been there, her dog wouldn’t have been so excited.
Then again, I simply don’t understand why people walk their dogs on the path that goes past the front and down one side of the dog park. If I were walking a strong dog that I know is going to get excited, I would avoid that path. I would avoid it anyway. There are lots of paths through the park, all of them have benches and litter stations.
I hope the poor woman is okay. I called my son to help her get up, but she was up and headed for her car before he could get there.
In exciting? news, we put in an offer for the house. We aren’t the only offer though. The seller is supposed to make a decision this morning. Weird how the house has been on the market for over 80 days, and then a bunch of offers come in on one weekend.
My son is… weird. He doesn’t want to move, but he signed the contract, and now is talking about the logistics of getting everything moved. He’s making a plan. But he still doesn’t want to move.
When we went to look at the house on Friday, we took the dogs with us. It was cool enough for them to wait in the truck, but the owner said to bring them in. She has two chihuahuas, that she crated. The GR acted like they were home; Echo explored a bit. I hadn’t noticed before that there is a doggie door and my son got Echo and Misiu to use it.
Maybe it was a good thing I took them. They were impressed with how nice and well behaved the dogs are.
I guess I’ll hear something in a few hours.
I told my realtor I am not getting into a price war, if they accept a different offer, then I’ll keep looking.
In the meantime, I am already shopping for a washer/dryer, pricing awnings and riding mowers, and looking at different ways to add a shower to a soaker tub.
I never cared about having a deck, but now that I have had one for 9 years, I am going to miss it.
Yesterday we got a postcard with a coupon for adult-use cannabis. My son handed it to me and said this is for you. I flipped it over and saw the name, and said, no, actually this is for you. LOL
He was not amused.
This kid has had exactly one sip of beer in his life, when he was a kid and he didn’t like it. He has had one bourbon ball in his life. My grandmother’s recipe. That is it, no cigarettes, no alcohol, no drugs stronger than Aleve or aspirin.
I often wonder where I went wrong.
We can get 20% off in August.
Those are very pretty rocks and bowls, JtC
I like rocks and bowls; I just don’t collect them because collections have to be cleaned and dusted.
I’m glad you made it home safely, and I hope you do get to see the eclipse with your mom. Cats are weird. Adam is not a cuddly cat, and he never sleeps in bed with me, but when I got home from the hospital last year, he slept at the foot of my bed with me every night for over a week.
I don’t know if he missed me, or was concerned because I was still ill, or maybe both.
What a horrible experience, Yanks.
Interruptions and a nap!
I was getting a bit worried that I hadn’t heard from the realtor. I thought the seller was meeting up with her realtor at 10am. I thought I should have heard something by noon.
Then I saw on FB that the realtor’s granddaughter got baptized this morning, so I figured I wouldn’t be hearing from her anytime soon. I saw that the status of the house had changed to 'Under Contract", and figured I didn’t get it and went looking online to see what else was available.
I found a house I like in Hancock, but that is a half hour commute each way for my son and I’m thinking, no, that’s a little farther out than I want to be,
When my realtor finally called… and
the seller accepted our contract and
WE ARE BUYING A NEW HOUSE!
Of course, I won’t relax until I have the key in my hand, anything could go wrong.
I am going to miss this house. There are things I love about it. I’m already feeling sad about leaving it.
Then I saw on FB that my Aunt G turned 90 today. She is really my mother’s cousin but I called her Aunt because she is older than my mother. Then I saw that GUncle D turned 90 as well. G Uncle D is married to G Aunt ML, who also turned 90 a few weeks ago. G Aunt ML is G’s aunt
Aunt G and her late husband Uncle B introduced my parents to each other.
Pilot, your job makes my head spin
FCM congrats on 50-year anniversary, and Happy Ducking!
You sure know how to sloth it up, Swampy
Sounds like Spot keeps you busy, Doggio.
He is a cutie!
Adam is fairly well behaved for a cat. He annoys the hell out of me with the whole let me in the back door so I can walk through the house and go out the front door, and then walk round back bullshit.
I worry about moving him. I hope he doesn’t try to come back here.
I’m a little worried about coyotes at the new place. The seller told me they have never seen any around, and that a lot of the neighbors have outdoor cats.
Happy Vacationing Doggio and Taters.
I know I am missing responses, but the GR have the zoomies and I am going crazy.
Mazel tov!
