Trials with an older home, moving, sort of, puppies

My endeavors on the house have been fraught with disappointment lately. I still have one toilet that has a small be annoying leak and as I attempted to hook up the washer and dryer last night I was not able to get the two supply valves – which are in pretty sorry shape – to stop leaking. Neither of them leaked very much but it was enough to keep me from succeeding in getting the appliances in service. It is time to call a professional to get some complete repairs - not make-due fixes - so we can move forward.

I did get the stock trailer unloaded and, with Grandpa’s help, moved a couple pieces of furniture in to the garage and house respectively. Grandpa has been working at the farm getting the shop and barn organized and ready to load. That is a big help. Mama has been working on getting the kitchen items ready to move.

Unfortunately, it does not take much to distract her, so there is still a lot that needs to be readied to come to the house and Grandpa, Grandma and Victoria have started looking at houses for purchase in the hopes of getting one under contract by the end of the year. That is taking a good amount of time both in the online searches and doing initial drive-by’s. But there is a time sensitive program we have been made aware of that would allow them to purchase a house with very good financing terms if they can meet the end-of-year deadline.

Grandpa is planning to continue using the stock trailer for the move while it is clean. Once we move the cattle in it we will not want to use it for household items until after I clean it out and it dries completely. With that in mind, we will probably not finish the fence on the new property and get the livestock moved until the middle of next week. Daisy and Baby Huey will be happy to be able to move around more freely after being cooped up in the barn lot for the last three week.

I am not sure what we are planning on doing tonight but we do not have play practice so I can work at something. I need to get our master closet put back together and the master bath cleaned up sufficiently that we can set out things on clean surfaces in it.

Grandpa is going to look at Victoria’s car this evening to see what needs to be done to help it shift better. We parked it in the garage at the house last night so it would be warm enough this morning to be available for him to diagnose. It was 24®F this morning when I left the house but this is the only cold morning we are forecast to have this week. Fortunately the heating unit in the house works well.

The puppies have opened their eyes and ears. It is fun to watch them as they try to make sense of the sounds around them; how they blink their sleepy-looking eyes and turn their heads to try to connect a face with a voice – especially Mama’ and Victoria’s voices.

They are trying to walk also and they have not learned to fully coordinate the movements of the front and back legs so they stumble and fall over as they move. It will not be long before they master the movements and are able to climb out of the shallow box we have them in.

I have deeper boxes set aside that we may need by this weekend.