Happy Saturday!
It was a nice cool 64 degrees this morning when I sat outside with the pups for a bit.
It’s supposed to get up to 84.
I wanted to sleep in this morning, but I was awakened by a THUD! Misiu fell off the bed. I called him a few times and when he didn’t respond, that really woke me up.
He was just sleepy, nothing wrong.
I didn’t contact the lawyer yesterday; it will wait until Moonday.
I’m burnt out on bullshit.
I got a text from my niece, saying everybody needs to sign so we can get our checks.
I haven’t responded yet, just going to continue to bury my head in the sand for a few more days.
I am going to look at a house tomorrow.
It has everything I am looking for, mostly.
All one floor, no basement, no attic, 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, large fenced backyard, 2-car garage with extra storage space, outside city limits. The kitchen looks nice, there’s a pantry, and a separate laundry room.
It’s on a third of an acre of flat land and not a lot of trees and shrubbery to mow around.
The garage is not attached to the house, but the fence is level with the front of it, so if I park in the garage, the dogs can go through the side door to get in the truck and I won’t have to worry about leashes and them pulling me.
The downside… It’s a trailer that has been added onto the front and back. I don’t know a lot about how that will work as far as maintenance and all. It has been remodeled and from the pictures it looks nice.
The other downsides are my son’s commute to work will go from 10 minutes to 20 minutes, and there are what looks to be four stairs between the addition and the trailer. Four stairs are a lot better than 15 stairs. There’s no railing, but that shouldn’t be too expensive to have installed.
Also, outside of city limits means a well, septic, no trash pickup, giving up a few things I am used to.
No city taxes or water bill, but need to set aside emergency funds to replace the well and septic.
Everything is electric, and I don’t know if electricity is subsidized if you are outside city limits.
If not, it could get very expensive.
The thought of moving makes me ill, but if I stay here, the renovations I’d want to make would probably cost as much as moving.
If it wasn’t for pesky things such as money and financing, I’d buy
this house
I thought it was a bit overpriced, but when you find out it comes fully furnished, well there you go.
It’s actually a steal at what they are asking!
And who doesn’t want their own personal helicopter pad?
I haven’t signed my son up for driving school yet. He promised me we would go out on his days off without any bullshit from him. He started to protest going out today, but I gave him the look and he resigned himself to going.
I still want him to take a few lessons from the driving school.
I also let him know we are looking at a house tomorrow, and he didn’t protest that either.
He doesn’t want to move, but he knows, the older I get the more of a problem the stairs will be.
Putting in an elevator is $30,000, and not worth it in this house in this neighborhood.
The GR are growing and growing.
They used to be able to walk under Echo, not anymore.
Poor Misiu sits in front of me staring at me. I know he wants to sit in my lap, but I can’t pick him up anymore.
My son picked him up and put him in my lap today, Misiu just wiggled all over.
Poor boy, he is going to be too big to be a lap dog.
Most of the pain in my legs and feet is gone now.
My knee is bad but I’ll be getting a gel shot for that on the 31st.
I’m getting the epidural on the 28th, and I am very nervous about that. I have to find out if I’m allowed to drive afterwards. There is nothing in the paperirk about driving. Some friends have told me they were told not to drive themselves home. My son will have enough confidence I hope by then, and if he doesn’t want to drive the highway, there is a back way that we can use.
Happy Travels MetalMouse and BooFae.
I haven’t been to Myrtle Beach in over 50 years. I’m sure it has changed a lot since then.
I’m glad your family reunion went well Red.
On my WV side of the family, there were (in season) sliced tomatoes and chunks of cantaloupe at every meal. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
I agree with you on beets Shady, but I like squash, as long as somebody else fixes it.
Good Luck on the upcoming surgery, Nellie.
I dread the thought of surgery.
Get some rest, Shoe. Being that tired is not good for you.
I had a night job once; I’d get so tired I’d start hallucinating.
One night I saw two mermen coming down the road with boxes of chocolates for me.
Made sense at the time.
RealFish, you should get the numbness checked out.
What pretty flowers JtC!
I wish we could grow that here.
I found out the flowers I like are actually Bindweed, which is type of morning glory.
It’s poisonous to horses, but I don’t have any of those.
Happy Sunday!
It’s warmer today, but not too bad if you stay in the shade.
We went to look at the house.
I really like it, it’s all corn and cows where it is.
Nice view of the mountains from the back yard.
The layout is a bit strange, because it has been added onto, but the layout would work for us. One of the bedrooms has a door to the backyard, very convenient if I need to let the pups out. It is a very small bedroom though.
The kitchen is better than what I have, and there is a nice pantry.
The only problem is the stairs between the additions. They are mostly half steps, and only three or four, but there are four sets of them as well as a set of two down into the pantry. It wouldn’t be hard to put in railings, or as the home owner suggested, even just put in those bars like you put in a bathtub.
They weren’t a big problem for me, but it may get worse as I get older.
Rayleigh is sick, I don’t know if he needs the vet.
Have to run.
Sometimes being older has its advantages. 18- or 25-yo you woulda had a rougher time.
But before that I cleaned, dusted, vacuum, changed the litter in the cat shitter, and took out the garbage and recycling. Good thing, because it’s gonna rain soon, and now Future dogbutler won’t get wet.
