Pippin and the Bee

Hey guys!! As happy as I wasn't about going back to work today at least it's only a 4 day week and tomorrow is Wednesday! Woo hoo! My boss had planned to take off today, so that helped make the day a little easier, too.

Yesterday we did a ton of steam cleaning for the carpets and finished all the other major projects we had left. There are still some rooms with some little spots where we've bumped the walls that need touching up, but overall our house is spotless. It's so nice and clutter free. Once all the carpets were wet we loaded up and headed to the dog park to stay off them so they could dry nice and pretty. The dog park we prefer is very, very close to where we want to live, so it was another opportunity to drive through the our future 'hood. When we got to the dog park Pips was MEGA excited. It was really hot yesterday, 90-something, and we were at the park around 3:30 so it was still super hot. There were only a few dogs there and Pippin was the smallest in this sea of brown and black labs (One of the black labs was named Rachel which freaked me out!!). For some reason Pippin was really, REALLY into this male giant schnauzer. He just would not leave him alone and it was SO embarrassing because this dog was WAY bigger than Pippin. The dogs were so hot they mostly just stretched out in the dirt panting and panting. At one point it was just us and two labs. Pippin was really too hot to have any fun so we loaded up to leave, and as we were walking out he stepped on a bee and got stung. It was SO traumatic. He yelped a little and his little leg was just throbbing and twitching. I scooped him up and we were both freaking out (me and Pippin). I carried him to the car and held him while Brent checked to make sure there wasn't a stinger left, or that he hadn't stepped on any glass or something else. His poor little foot was just twitching and he was trying to lick it and just couldn't get comfortable in my lap. I felt so bad for him but there wasn't much we could do. We poured some water on it and headed home, he eventually fell asleep in my lap but he'd still kick his foot out from time to time. After we got home we all took a nap and afterwards he was back to feeling like chipper little Pippin.

Today we made an appointment with a company to come and pressure wash our house Thursday to get the roof, windows, driveway, brick and deck all shiny and clean. I also called a realtor who is going to get our house listed and take us to see the 4 houses we like tomorrow afternoon. She's THE top agent in our area and came highly recommended. She's got an entire staff of people to dote on us. One of her assistants I spoke with today (who is taking us out tomorrow) seemed really nice, and told us not to be surprised if we get an offer in less than a week. That's a-OK with me. She said this area is going fast right now, and there really aren't a lot of (used) houses for sale in our area. She probably says that to everyone, but it's still nice to hear - BUT four houses on our street sold about 2 months ago, so that's a good sign. So, by this time next week our house will have a big sign out front - FOR SALE!! We will hopefully be suburbanites no longer!

That's all the news around here! We got some boxes at work today to pack up some of our winter clothes and other stuff to stash in the attic and have out of the way, so we're going to start working on some of that this week. I think we're also going to have a yard sale this Saturday to go ahead and get some of this junk out of the house. Have a great short week everyone!

Rae