Fire Alarms

(Scout in her pool in 2007. She wished she could jump in a pool yesterday.)

We are going to the park and out for lunch today because the hotel is going to test the fire alarms. They are going to come in our room and test ours and that's probably not too bad, but Daddy said they will set the alarms off all over the hotel at the same time and it will be loud. They will go off for at least 5 minutes. Mama thinks we will be scared, so that's why we are leaving. We have to clean our room before we make our escape though. Mama doesn't want the hotel people to see our room in it's natural state. LOL

Yesterday, we had to turn our air conditioning on. It was 76 degrees here! It was a beautiful day.

Mama says the mean bank people are making her jump through hoops, but we haven't seen any hoops in our room. Our agent told us not to get too excited because he doesn't know if the latest hoop jumping means that our offer has been accepted or not. Daddy thinks it's good news, but Mama says that they could just be leading us on just to tell us no, again. If they tell us no, Mama says we are going to walk away, at least for a while. Daddy says the same, so we will see what happens. This house buying is stressful!

Jack
The Greyhound Who Is Going Out To Lunch With His Mama and Sis

Wordless Wednesday

Scout
The Greyhound Who Is A Cutie!

Car Washes Are Scary!

This morning Mama asked us if we wanted to go for a ride. Scout and I got all excited. We were dancing around and couldn't wait. It was not a fun ride. Why? She took us to an automatic car wash! It was so scary! Scout and I were both shaking in our paws. It was loud and water was banging on our windows. Then, we went under the dryer and it nearly sucked us through the sunroof! When we got back to the hotel, Mama said we could go on a walk. No way! We wanted to get back to the safety of our room. We are giving Mama the stink eye now.

Yesterday, the hotel people surprised Mama with a Valentine's present.

It's grape juice and chocolate. She thought it was a really nice surprise.

Mama re-arranged the living room furniture yesterday. We have more room now. I can almost do zoomies in the room now. The couch seems more comfy now that it has been moved.

No word from the mean bank people. They appear to be ignoring our offer. It's not looking good. Mama is pretty stressed about it all.

Sorry about my short and matter of fact post today. I'm still shaking over the car wash incident.

Jack
The Greyhound Who Is Probably Going To Have Nightmares About Car Washes

Happy Valentine's Day!

The weather is still wonderful here and it's supposed to be like this all week! Yesterday, we went to the park and as promised, we walked until we couldn't walk any more. Actually, we made it home from the park just fine, but then we went for another walk in the office complex and Scout didn't want to continue. She acted like a mule. After a three hour nap, Scout was as good as new and we walked around places that we haven't been able to reach due to all the snow. It was a fun day.

What are we doing for Valentine's Day? Well, it doesn't sound like a lot of fun. Mama has to do laundry. It takes a few hours, but then she is done for about a week. Our room looks like a dry cleaner on laundry day because she hangs all the sweatshirts in the bathroom because she doesn't want to dry them in the dryer and then she has jeans hanging on a drying rack. Mama says we will take a few longs walks today and maybe, just maybe, we will go out for lunch. She has to work today, so she has to squeeze that in somewhere. Tonight, the folks may go out to dinner, but Mama is not sure. Daddy may need to go shoe shopping because he realized that he put his dress shoes in the Pod and he needs to wear a suit tomorrow.

No word on the cabin from the mean bank people. We are hoping that they were just waiting to see if anyone else looked at it this weekend before getting back to us. We hope it doesn't mean that someone else put in a better offer. It was a long weekend wondering if we are going to get our cabin.

Hope you have a greyt day!

Jack
The Greyhound Who Is Happy That The Snow Is Melting

We Saw The Cabin

Yesterday the folks drove out to see another house. They had a heck of a time finding it. They had two different set of directions and even Tom Tom said the place didn't exist. The directions said to turn on an unmarked road and the approximate miles the directions gave were two miles off. They thought the realtor would have a sign up on the road, but she didn't. Finally, they found the house. Mama said it looked really nice from what she could tell peeking through the windows. It's a foreclosure, so it's empty. Mama liked it, but they decided it was too far out. It's about fifty miles from Daddy's work and we need to be within forty miles.

Later in the day, they told us we could go with them while they drove past houses that they were interested in. We only found one that we thought was nice. Two of the houses were on really bad roads. One road was so bad that we had to put it in four wheel drive and we still didn't know if we would make it. It was muddy and bumpy and still had some ice on it. We decided that even though the Jeep could make it, the RV wouldn't like it at all. Scout thought it was fun driving on the bumpy roads.

Mama asked if we wanted to see the log cabin and we said we did. Oh, we loved the road. It reminded us of home. It felt like a nice place to live. We didn't get out of the car when we pulled into the driveway of the log cabin, but we liked what we saw. There is a golden retriever who lives next door and Scout thought he looked very nice. We really hope we get the house. Oh and you know what we saw as we were leaving? THE PIZZA MAN! Yes, the pizza man comes with the log cabin. We were quite surprised, but Daddy told us we were only about two miles from the pizza place. What could be better than that? We have all our paws crossed that we get the house, but Mama says those bank people seem to be mean so we can't get our hopes up. :::sigh:::

Today, we are going to get our nails done and then we are going to the park and we are going to walk until we can't walk any more. It's a beautiful day here!

Jack
The Greyhound Who Is Dreaming Of Living In A Log Cabin

The Big Thaw!

(Here's an old photo of us when we had room to stretch out. LOL)

It's been a rough week. The 4" of sleet that fell last week melted just enough to make it extremely slick to walk on. It's not fun walking when you are sliding all over. It's all hard to do your business when you start to do it and you loose your footing.

We have been counting the days until the weekend because it is going to be near 50! We are so excited! Yesterday, it was 44 degrees and while there are still a lot of slick spots, we felt happy to be walking. Mama even took us to McDonalds to celebrate!

On the house hunting front, we have put another offer in on that log cabin. They finished the work on it this week and Mama and Daddy visited it on Wednesday. As expected, they didn't do a very good job. They put carpet in the master bathroom, but they didn't put a pad under the carpet in that room so it will be less material to remove. They put carpet in the four season room aka sun room which sounds nice, but it should have been indoor/outdoor carpet because it's really not a room that can be used year round. We would use it more like a screened porch. It's were our dirty feet will hit when we come in from the yard. They didn't replace the ceramic tile in the main bathroom which would be fine if that tile actually was grouted. Then the really bad thing that they did was they caulked around the old tile in the foyer instead of grouting it. They painted the rooms and they look fine. They put in a new stove and dishwasher, but took out the refrigerator, washer and dryer. The home still needs work to be done, but now it is move-in ready. Mama and Daddy put in an offer that was $10,000 higher than the last one and the bank came down a $1,000. We then went up $2,000 more, but haven't heard back from the bank. Mama says she doesn't think we will be able to agree on a price. The bank people have never seen the house in person and it probably looks and sounds better on paper. We know it needs part of the roof repaired, so we have to hold out money to fix that. We really want the house, but Daddy says we have to think with our heads and not our hearts. There is another house that came on the market yesterday, that we are going to drive by today and see if we like the area. It looks nice in pictures, but we have been fooled before.

We are going to check out a park this weekend that we haven't been to before. It's going to be such a nice a weather weekend! Roo! Roo!

Jack
The Greyhound Who Is Ready For The Big Thaw!

Almost Wordless Wednesday - Scout Relaxing

(Frosty Treat Overload - see empty container to the right.)