Day 47

Another cold day, but at least no rain. I'm getting cabin fever almost as bad as the dog has it.

Luckily the sun came out for about an hour in the early afternoon. I took advantage of it to take the dog to do retrieves. She did over 40. That works out conservatively to over a mile of running. It's probably more like a mile and a quarter.

She needed it. I gave her two new toys yesterday. She destroyed both today. One was a stuffed animal. She literally removed all of the stuffing. The other was the rope deal with a dog tennis ball attached. A dog tennis ball is harder and has a thicker skin than a regular tennis ball. She ATE the tennis ball. I mean that there wasn't a piece any bigger than 3/4 of an inch. Most pieces were pea size. Of course the results of all this destruction were scattered all over the floor. Quite a job to clean up.

Continuing with the pet maintenance theme I also replaced the cat box litter. This is a messy, smelly, job. I also gave the dog a bath. It's been more than two weeks since her last one and she was smelling rather doggy.

I talked to the realtor for about half an hour today. I outlined what I've been doing and set up a trip to view houses on Tuesday. I then spent a whole lot of time preparing a list of 9 houses to look at. She wanted me to supply the MLS, address, and listing agent. I don't know why I had to look it all up and mail it to her. She could have done it all from the MLS.

I also took the time to figure out the optimal order to visit the houses in. I'll probably be driving, so that will help me alot. Of the nine houses there are three that really look interesting, three that are real "maybes", and three that are long shots. We'll see.

Finally, I finished a book that I started yesterday. It was an SF novel written by Ben Bova in 1964. Ben Bova is an award winning SF author. It was interesting to note that some of the things that he had written about as SF (VTOL jets, large military hovercraft, automated fire control systems) are commonplace now days.