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Saturday, February 13, 2010

House hunting and sick pup

Well, we ended up seeing three houses today.

The first was the one story. It was interesting because the kitchen was in the middle of sort of a great room and walls/hallways were formed with cabinets. It had 4 rooms and a nice piece of property - I think 2 acres of pretty darn level land. The big issues: pretty dated on all those interior cabinet walls, and heat only from baseboard heaters and a wood stove. That was not too bad (grimacing), but it also had a fairly flat house roof and a carport (no garage) and they came together at the roof line and held a boatload of water.... not a good thing. Nothing was draining right and there was even some water damage inside from skylights... (sigh) The bees outside I mentioned yesterday... while there were some flying about, there was a heaping pile of dead ones by the front of the boxes....heaping! Poor bees!

The bonus house was next. It was kinda interesting, sort of a tri-level. The first two levels were really only separated by 4 steps (more like a sunken living room/ raised kitchen). That was all fine and dandy, but the downstairs was a finished basement....but not finished well. Open spaces w/o drywall in the backs of closets leading to other rooms with things propped in front of another hole to cover it up, loads of paneling, funky bad kitchen (2nd kitchen for a 2nd living space), and other things. We couldn't even get in the shop because it was falling apart. Decent property outside, but the top dollar price with all the work to be done was just too much.

The 2 story that I posted the picture of was just a really nice farm house. 3 1/2+ acres. Neat wrap around porch. Really well maintained. The green house was in bad shape and so was a huge out building, but they could both be demo-ed. BE-you-tee-full view of Mount Hood!!!! Aside from minor cosmetic stuff (Wallpaper on every wall!!!!!!!), the big issue???? It was really close to a freeway and a major street (could see the street) and it was pretty loud. Huge bummer! Also, the drive for Mark would not have been very good - while closer than some other houses, the one route was probably more congested. It is a highway, not a freeway, so it had intersections, etc. Letting that one go....

So we went to drown our sorrows in a buffet at Izzy's. Yep, I was right, this would be J-ster's version of heaven. Pizza, steak, desserts and more.

Then we went home. Fed Journey and started to settle in.... Then she started getting sick. (sigh) For about 3 hours she was either "losing her dinner, breakfast, etc", gagging, or crying. I finally got her to settle in and go to sleep about 8:00 and she has been passed out for over an hour. I am really hoping she just ate something stupid (I know, crazy! A lab eating something stupid??? That would neeeevvvveeerrr happen. LOL!). Crossing my fingers that she will be feeling better when she wakes up.

Okay... back to the MLS listings to find another house. Staying patient.... sort of.

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