So, there it is. I'm sure there is a way to make the link short, but being a self taught blogger, I have no clue how to do that!
Yesterday and today have been a whirlwind. I'm not sure how people keep their sanity that have their homes on the market for any real length of time. We've been out there for three days, and we are both exhausted. We are so tired that we don't even KNOW we are tired.
It gets interesting when you have pets to deal with while the house is being shown. For instance, we finally decided that Koko could be okay in the fenced backyard if the weather is mild. So, yesterday for the 4:00 showing that's what I did.
Wait...I need to back up some. Let's start with yesterday MORNING! I had come to the couch to watch TV when I couldn't sleep the night before. Steve woke up at 6, got dressed and was heading out to get the paper. He was greeted by the window/siding people! It was 6:15 in the morning!!!! They immediately began tearing out windows and causing havoc all over the house. I decided to go ahead and get to the office.
I had a break at 3:00, at which time I was planning to come back to the house, let the dog out, pack up the cat, double check the inside of the house and see if the workers were going to be finished before the 4:00 showing. I suppose I was so rattled that everything started going wrong. Zoe was unhappy as I wrapped her in a towel with her little leash on to carry her out. Then I realized I couldn't find my keys anywhere! Yikes! Time was ticking and the folks were due in just a few minutes. As I'm running through the house to find my keys, Zoe is meowing like a banshee and trying to get out of my grasp. The workers were not through yet, so I would have to take her in my car. Yes, Baby has officially become a cat carrier. The clock was ticking closer to 4:00 and I KNEW I had to be out of the house soon! I had to put Zoe down, but couldn't so I went and put her in the XTerra in the garage (windows cracked--the weather was mild, folks). Back inside I went to backtrack and find those keys!Finally, I located the keys in the cabinet where I had the check to pay the window/siding people. I ran to get Zoe and head out to my waiting car across the street, dodging workers and their supplies. I saw Janet and yelled out "I'm so sorry I lost my keys and didn't get away when I planned to! The house is TOO clean!!" Right then I noticed the prospective buyers walking up. Later, Steve reminded me that there were so many worse things I could have been yelling to Janet, such as "We finally got all that water up in the basement!" Whew!
Zoe and I headed off to pick up Steve at the Bicycle Shop, with her steady meowing. He got in and after just a few minutes of riding around, where at one point Zoe climbed up on the dashboard in front of me while I was driving, Steve voted that we go get a pet carrier.
We continued to drive around for the hour that they were there, checking occasionally to see if we could go home yet. How DO people do this routine for weeks on end????
Today was another shuffle the pets routine, with Koko going in the backyard while Steve had planned to bring Zoe (our cat) to my office in the new pet carrier. I had an 11:30 lunch meeting, so I couldn't go by the house. The buyers were to be there at 12:30.
Well, at 11:50 our doorbell rings and Steve finds the buyer and her daughter there announcing they were a bit early! You think??? He suggested they wait on their realtor and came back in to get Zoe in the carrier.
Now, folks, if I knew HOW to do it I would put a recording that he left on my voicemail telling me that Zoe would NOT go in the carrier for him and that he had delivered her plus her carrier to my office to roam free! In the background you can hear a meowing, hissing Zoe. She is not happy. He said she nearly clawed him to death with her back claws. It is one of the funniest things ever...the recording, not the scratches.
I found her curled in one of my chairs asleep and when it was time to take her back home in an hour, she let me put her in the carrier and off we went. She did meow, but at least she didn't obstruct my vision!
There are people coming back tomorrow with their contractor to see it again. I guess we didn't scare them all off.
More later......and, by the way, I cooked supper now two nights in a row. It's a record.
1 comment:
You do so remind me of Erma Bombeck! You could not make this stuff up if you tried.
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