Late morning all. Decided to do something different and went out for breakfast to the Sunny Street Cafe, where I had two huge (plate sized) buttermilk pancakes, bacon and OJ. So I am filled up. Also did a little banking while I was out, so only chores planned for today are done.
Still showing 50-60% chance of rain, but it’s so scattered about the area I really doubt we’ll get much if any. So watering the yard this weekend is likely.
Sari, nice looking older house, but like FCM mom said, an inspection is a must on this before thinking seriously on it.
Rented my house the 4 years I was overseas. The first renters were from work, nice people and they took good care of it for the two years they were there. After that I got an agent, had several renters, made more money but the house needed some work after I got back. Such is life.
boo fae, glad that you’re getting out and about, but be careful now…
Nettie, hope you and DH get to feeling better.
And that’s about all from Casa Rat… Everybody take care now.
Our last pleasant day before the heat rolls in tomorrow, which will push temps up to (or near) triple digits for several days. Made French toast this morning, adding some orange zest to kick it up a notch. Gooood eatin’. The new freezer is in the basement and operating, having survived it’s arduous journey from China without issue. Now to fill it past capacity and then jump on the lid to get it closed.
I managed to get a good walk in - rain is promised later. Daughter and her friends have gone on an errand, and Roxy is sleeping, so I have some quiet time. And a bowl of cherries - yum!!
I’d snap up that house in a heartbeat. The kitchen is fine. The bathroom sink is a little funky but nothing that can’t be dealt with. What’s wrong with the basement, other than it’s not finished?
Our friend who was supposed to meet us in Maupin Sunday, cancelled on us, so we’re here at the ‘big house’ until we decide to go back. Maybe Wednesday. It’ll give me some more time to try to repair the fascia that the ^#%@# roofers trashed last fall. At least it’s not supposed to get hot today. The problem is that I have vertigo and I’m not supposed to go up on ladders. I’ll have to be careful.
I want to go to BiMart and get another shelving unit, and a few small things before we go back into hiding anyway. Wifey is getting really paranoid about all the fecking idiots here in the valley running around without masks, etc.
I’m paranoid by nature already.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been any violence yet.
If that little house was here in Orygun we’d snap it up in a heartbeat. (Assuming a decent inspection.) Of course, if it was out here, it’d be 2 or 3 times as expensive.
I have a zoom meeting with my cardiologist’s PA today, and hope to get a haircut this weekend. That’s all for this trip.
A cat tale! Yesterday I opened my apartment door to go for a walk, and what did I find on my doormat but an adorable calico kitty? She was sitting there facing the door as if she’d been expecting me. She was shy and did not want petting, but she slipped past my feet and into my apartment like she lived here, trotted into each room, looked around, and trotted out. Just a cat scan, you might say. But then she didn’t want to leave my doorstep. When I came out, she moved to the fourth step down. Then she tiptoed down the stairs and behind a shrub. No collar. I don’t know who belonged to her. I suspect she’s with the CIA (Cat Inspecting Agency) or the FBI (Feline Busybody Institute).
Full-on heat arrives tomorrow. I haaaaate August.
Dot, glad you’re back. I was concerned. Please keep checking in. And mangia, girl, mangia! I don’t know how tall you are, but 80 pounds is way too little weight. (And PS it’s normal to feel overwhelmed after a long hospital stay. It’ll get better, promise.)
swampy, I keep reading about surges in Jawjia’s COVID cases. Y’all sure it’s OK to start church services again?
sari, that’s a gorgeous house, if you don’t look in the basement, attic or bathrooms. Of course, if I were 111 years old, my foundation and upper story wouldn’t be in such great shape, either.
MetalMouse is good at that. Actually, he’s just plain good.
Howdy Y’all! Mowage got completed over to the church house. There’s some trimmin’ and such that remains but the three folks who will be there tomorrow can handle that, so I am off the hook. YAY! Right now ‘tis stormin’ out. Lots and lots and lots of rain for the past hour and a half. Got back to da cave right at noon, and had a shower, sammich, and a nap. All is food.
nettie as of now we have actually had very few cases in my area of Jawja over the past month and a half. However, should there be a significant surge, we would stop havin’ services. We keep a close eye on the data.
The rain has started. I placed my pizza and lasagne order to be delivered around 5 - hope they have that technology. Before then, I need to cut up some veggies for salad. Easy supper tonight.
FCD spent the day in meetings - one in a room with other people that led to yet another contract. He’s good at what he does (especially the heat analysis) so they keep coming back to him. Which is great - it’ll pay for our new furniture!
@nelliebly. Then she tiptoed down the stairs and behind a shrub. No collar. I don’t know who belonged to her. I suspect she’s with the CIA (Cat Inspecting Agency) or the FBI (Feline Busybody Institute).
Loved this cat tale and the terms C.I.A. and F.B.I. Gonna use these at my house-lot of feline investigating and intelligenceing going on here on the wide open prairie.
Totally bleh day on my end. Whole lot of nothing going on. Not that there isn’t anything I should be doing, just that there isn’t anything I am doing.
At least there is still ice cream in my freezer, Swampie. That takes care of supper.
Afternoon all. Nappage has been completed and we having a rain shower, so lawn is soaking it in. Only 74F outside so that is a nice, albeit short, changeup.
nellie, my blushes…
FCM, does FCD write up his own proposals/estimates, or do the businesses make and negoitate with him? Just curious, I remember what a fuster-cluck US Government DoD contracting could be.
swampy, our cases are leveling out, about 60 new ones today, hopefully they’ll be continuing to head downward too.
Oops. Teased the wrong Mumper there. Sorry SwampBear. It was SSRat’s supper menu I was commenting on. I will keep all this straight eventually. Maybe.
Friday continues bleh. Picked up 7th grade housemate from her second day of school. She seems fine with the mask/social distancing stuff but she forgot how underwhelming 7+ hours of school can be. She may decide to do virtual learning at home if this keeps up. Wouldn’t hurt my feelings to not be driving all the way across town and back twice a day and to wander around barefoot and in pajamas most of the day again. Picking up just-in new favorite author mystery novels from the library are about the only thing worth putting on real shoes and an underwire bra for. Just finished and returned today “The New Order” by Daniel Da Silva. THAT was worth the battle of the bra and Birkenstocks. Lee Child should be next.
nellie, that old house is my idea of ‘good bones‘. But the bathrooms wouldn’t stop me if I knew everything going in and the renovating/modernizing fuss wouldn’t be too much cost or trouble. Love those wood floors, big rooms and high ceilings! Hope the amount of needed work is reflected in the price. The house I bought in 2005 was built in 1884 (that’s walking tour worthy here) and I love every creaky, crumbling splendid corner of it. Not a single door or window is a standard size but she sure is a grand old girl. No indoor plumbing or electricity when it was built. Barely any now.
Time to scare up a book to read til supper time. Check in with y’all later.
WetOne, I decided you are right. I mean the kitchen is fugly, but it looks like it’s usable.
I think it is disappointing that the outside is so nice, and the inside isn’t.
So I did something stupid, I called the real estate company and we are going to talk.
I explained the whole situation, the stuff I can’t fix in my house because of the neighbor (the closet wall and the basement sink) and he said he has ways to handle that.
He said as far as he knows the roof does not leak, but there was a problem with the home inspection and that is why the other contract was cancelled. Whatever the problems are, by law he has to tell me. However, since the house has been on the market for quite a while, he thinks the sellers may negotiate.
It is concerning that the house has been on the market as long as it has, because this area is a seller’s market right now.
We’ll see.
I’m not counting on anything.
I missed the call back from my mortgage company because I was on the phone with the re agent. I was calling to see about refinancing and/or what I can borrow.
We have very little covid up here. Under 900+ cases and 30 deaths. I keep hearing there is going to be a big surge in the numbers, and it hasn’t happened yet.
My doctor’s office keeps sending me emails with all these dire warnings, of which I pay little attention.
I read yesterday that some state employees in Wisconsin were told to wear masks during ZOOM meetings. It’s supposed to be so they can set a good example (of what, I’m not sure). I think what it really means that somebody in charge is on a power trip and needs to pull their head out of their ass. If I irked there, I’d probably say so.
Home from the park, Ripple was bugging me to go starting at 3. Echo was good, two other dogs weren’t behaving. Made me feel good that it wasn’t my dog for a change.
He’s got a unique set-up with his former employer so he doesn’t have to deal with contracts himself. They deal with all the gummint stuff and they pay FCD as a subcontractor/consultant. He will write up Statements of Work to define the scope of what he’ll be doing. So he doesn’t have to deal with the contracting inanity. It’s almost as if he’s still working for that company but on-demand, so if there’s no work, he doesn’t work. It’s a good arrangement for him.
Supper was good, altho daughter’s friend’s husband apparently doesn’t like lasagna and he only ate 2 pieces of pizza, minus the crusts. I swear, the two of them are pretty wasteful when it comes to food. When we had the corn on the cob, her plate had a huge glop of butter on it - she took too much to butter her corn. That sort of thing pisses me off, but what can one do??
Anyway, once I load the dishwasher, it’ll be full-blown chillage. And I think I’ll sleep with Mel tonight.
So I broke a tooth this morning during ECT. Called and made an appointment for tomorrow and we’ll see what can be done, I guess.
ECT is trippy. I woke up from it this morning and one of the nurses told me I’d soon be ready to leave and I knew I should know whom she was and should know what was going on, but didn’t, so I somehow came up with this theory that we were all there having our blood tested for royal blood and couldn’t figure out a) why I had been there, b) why we had been asleep. When my ride (who was actually my landlady) came back in and asked how it had gone, I was like “oooooooooooooh thaaaaaat’s why I’m here and feel so weird…”
So basically, I’m falling apart. I’m not really looking forward to the dentist, but it seems almost fitting that I’m going to spend one of my few “days off” with a different kind of doctor. The second will have to involve a Walmart trip, possibly among other things.
ughhhhhh man just heard my roommate say to the dogs “hey! you were just friends!” There aren’t supposed to be dogS. She only has one dog.
Indeed I do! One with pictures and little bios. Where each of you live, city, state and continent. Everybody’s nickname. Jumping in at this stage of the game and not making a fool of myself is harder than it looks.
It doesn’t help that I’m in computer kindergarten and the whole quoting and formatting thing baffles me. It’s my first message boarding ever. So I’m trying to learn four foreign languages at once!
So send me that program, in living color, and I’ll laminate it and keep it next to my iPad, right next to that biggish wad of cat fur covering up the coffee stains.
I’ll have to be careful.