Oh Dear/Deer

Another busy weekend of cleaning, yard work, house showings and wanderings. By this afternoon, I should be able to add one more to the Board.

You will note that #21 has an unhappy face — that is only because I am no artist and couldn’t draw these: 🤬😱🤯. My post about House Hunting Etiquette continues to grow.

While Pozy has yet to master the art of picking up metal bowls, she is clearly Sparkle’s heir apparent.

Pozy and a pine needle

In the morning, I lock up the cats and leave the doors open to cool off the house — this allows Pozy to bring me things from outside. Here is a recent pile of Pozy Pick-ups.

Sometimes the thing is so tiny she has to spit it into my hand — that girl has talent 😂

I trade her for a goldfish; when she is in Pozy Pick-up mode, I just keep them close so it is easy.

I love that she chooses to engage with me in this way 💐🩷

This is Pozy attempting to evict one of the deer from a cozy deer napping spot — it was not successful.

The deer, apparently, understand about fences.

And speaking of deer…

The 2024 version of Spot and Dot have arrived!

Happy Sunday, Friends!

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Twenty!

We hit 20 showings yesterday!

Eighteen was a bit of a bust, which is why there is a red asterisk on it. They came and the man member of the couple immediately announced that the roof on the three-car garage was too low for a shop.

Could he have noticed that in the online photos!? Like this one 🤬

We did not shrink down the size of the roof since the photos were done 🙄 So annoying.

I have a list going about being a House Buyer — basically, I am keeping track of what NOT to do when looking for — and at — a home. Someday all of it will be funny — right now, only some of it is. Like the reaction of a person who opened a drawer to find herself looking into one of the security cameras — a camera that was put away to give them privacy as they looked at the house!

Showings #19 and #20 were back-to-back and so the dogs and I drove around for 90 minutes. The lupine is officially toast but we were rewarded with an elk herd!

That was SO cool.

I have been considering the comment about just showing the house with a more lived in look. Part of the reason I don’t do that is because I look at a lot of houses on Zillow and Redfin, and that look is not usually a good one.

But the second reason is that I find this whole process so intrusive, and so no — I do not want to invite strangers into my life anymore than absolutely necessary. It is both literal and emotional boundary violations for me to have people in my house, and I want to be removed from them as much as possible.

We also saw these Montana Longhorns on our wandering yesterday.

I know all of this house selling thing will unfold in the way it is supposed to, and in the meantime, I get to live in a beautiful place, I have a very clean house, and I am getting additional schooling in patience.

What are you grateful for today?

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