THE BIG CHANGE

Tomorrow we get to move into a house. It isn't home but it is a house and it has plenty of room and carpeting and I see a steam cleaner looming in my future.
Just like home, however, the backyard is flooded. Well, everything is flooded today even highways and underpasses and places that are normally dry are flooded. Of course we are expecting more rain, why not?

Last night it thundered starting at about midnight and I spent from then to about 4 in the morning with Cooper sitting pretty much on my head. PAnting.
I gave him the Composure but I got it into him too late and he was already hyped up. Anybody who has ever tried to tranquilize an excited dog knows this is not going to work well.

This morning we walked outside in the rain but then it thundered so we came right back in. Later we went out when it was not raining but everything was soaked. John went out and so Cooper dug a nest in his bed and dried out on his sheets and pillows. (I had dried him with a towel, but....)

They (not sure who They are, anymore, there are too many of Them) are delivering furniture (not ours) to the rental tomorrow afternoon. The cable guy comes in the afternoon. The inspector comes (again) in the afternoon. The inspectors are crazy people. He made the owner fix a screen that was slightly bent, replace a light bulb, fix two doorknobs that have sharp edges, and the owner is going to put in a gate and have new siding put on. He has 7 days to get that done and I guess if he doesn't we have to move out. I am not even going to think about it. Not at all. Nope.

Our real house is still being torn apart. Then the fun starts. Wait till the inspector gets a look at OUR house! Holy Shit, batman. It's gonna be bad.
Maybe it's not as bad when you own the house as when you rent it out. I cling desperately to that thought. This screen the guy had to fix was bent out maybe a quarter of an inch. We have screens that are cut all the way across the bottom because I locked myself out. They let in stray bobcats.

Ok I am blathering because I am excited about getting the boys back with us. It will be interesting to see what they make of a whole new place.