Thurday October 9 2008

Temple Peak and a Spot of Fall Color

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Today was very cloudy and I agree with Gina ..... "Dreary". We got ourselves into town as early as possible. On the road by 9 or so and Joe went to the clinic for his regular protime test. Debbie and I went to James' office and then down to look at the South Fork house. We stuck the dogs in the "dog pen" and a neighbor chocolate lab came over to greet them. He barked fiercely, but was friendly and immediately showed them the hole in the back of their pen where they could get out. In he came and they got acquainted. Because of the hole I didn't leave them there for long and back in the car they went. We decided the rest of the existing fence could hold hog wire like the pen and if we put wire on it would give them a bigger yard to roam. The configuration of the pen is so that you can't just let them out the back door (the yard is entirely open to the street), you have to walk them from the back door and over to the pen and put them in through the gate. That won't be nice in the middle of the night especially in winter. But it will be easier to fix than I thought. There are horses at the house in back of us. They came right over to introduce themselves. There were more a little further away so we will have horses to watch through the sunroom windows.

James got the keys and joined us and opened the house. Debbie also likes the house and the lot. We looked around again for possible problems and he made an inventory of the furniture - to help with making the offer. There is a deck with outdoor furniture, and a picnic table in the yard. I've wanted a picnic table for years here in our back yard and never got one. The yard is landscaped without being manicured, and has mature trees and a sprinkling system. We will need to hire a young person to shovel snow in wibnter and mow the yard in summer - a foreign concept to Joe.

Debbie and I made notes of what we need in order to set up housekeeping. As I've said before, almost everything is there, and what we don't like we can gradually dispose of and get what we like. Seems like we all agree the big well-worn leather sectional should go in favor of a recliner or two and a sofa bed in the "living room". James went to pick up Joe at the clinic. When he got to the house he got most of his questions answered.

Before lunch we tried to see our accountant to find out how all this is going to affect our taxes. And because he was meeting with clients before and after lunch we ended up asking him the question on the phone, but did get the answer. Things do get complicated some times.

We went for lunch at the Chinese restaurant. Then back to James office to start the paperwork and talk about "money". James got the offer 90% filled out and explained things we'd need to do and what our other costs would be. We needed to think about a few things, so stopped for the day and came on home. We will think over all the decisions this weekend and hope to finish things up early next week. I've made lots of notes and will type them up tomorrow.

We had leftover chili and strawberry shortcake for dinner. Debbie and I watched a movie she brought with her - The Bucket List. I hadn't seen it yet and liked it a lot. We were tired and went to bed early, but after a good nap I got up and decided to write the blog. I'm watching the three first Star Wars episodes. Got all Nanny's movies packed up to take back to her in the morning.

Yes..... we have to go back again in the morning and I will get my next protime test. I'm about to tell them that I don't want to take the coumadin. Debbie and I will go this time and get several chores done. We're sure doing a lot of driving lately.

The Wind River mountains are supposed to get 1 to 3 FEET of snow in the next three days, but when I let the dogs out just now it looked like that the moon is shining. The weather is predicted to be bad all weekend. I told Debbie not to worry about the storm. It should be better again next week. We got only some small sprinkles today.