The Happenings

Sorry for being gone so long!

Just want to fill you in on the happenings...

We've been traveling back and forth to MI

on the weekends.

We're packing up the house here in MI.

We have a POD in our driveway which is now half full.

We bought a Bagster for all of our junk.

I hope the POD will be full next Saturday,

I hope the house will be EMPTY next Saturday.

Then...

I can call the rug and hardwood floor cleaners

and our realtor to put the place up for lease.

We hear they lease fast,

will that be our luck?

One could hope!

Our daughter is almost totally moved out.

They are slow moving on the process.

We will probably end up having to help them

get the stuff out, so we can proceed.

I know they're busy too,

but I'm on a tight schedule!

We have had many people over for quotes for...

painting the exterior and taking care of the yard and gardens.

We found some amazing deals!

If you live in the metro-Detroit area,

DTE gives you $40 for every working fridge

that you have them haul away.

We will be getting a check for $80.

That's all the house news.

In other news...

Spring is taking it's sweet old time

making a real appearance in MI and Chicago.

I hope to take a Ballet Barre class this week.

We have a new puppy (yes we are crazy right now).

The puppy's name is Fannie Mae.

Here she is...

She is a very good puppy.

Black lab/Yellow Lab mix.

The vet said she is the Einstein of puppies.

She is 9 weeks old and can

sit, lay down, come and walk on a leash perfectly.

Emma is starting to love her.

Here she is...

Love that face!!!

We are taking a weekend off from our house to

go visit the hubs sister in Memphis, TN.

We leave in 10 days!!!

I cannot wait to feel warm sunshine!

Hubs sister just adopted a Golden Retriever,

2 years old named Gypsy.

She was in a rescue and so was Fannie Mae.

They can swap Foster Care stories.

That's all the news! Hope you're all doing well!

Hugs!

Kim





There's No Place Like Home

We went back to Michigan to finish some end of the season yard work. We sure miss being home and really miss living in our house. We know it's time to get it ready to go back on the market and to think about buying a home in Illinois. Please pray for the housing market to continue to improve in Michigan so we can put it back up as soon as possible. Right now we're looking at putting it up in a year. It sounds like a long time but it will go pretty quick while we do a couple things to make the house attractive to buyers. We will paint the outside, touch up the inside, change a couple of light fixtures and clean up the back landscaping. Quite a bit to do to pass the time. Here are some photos from the weekend...

Our daughter put our pumpkins out and added my fall wreath.

One of my most favorite landscape ornaments.

This is the first year that our Fire Bushes got berries. Very cute!

Little Miss Emma loves coming home so she can run without a leash, sniff around and explore. Here she is laying on her favorite hill in the yard. This is a family favorite hill. She's so happy at home. She has no freedom in our apartment. She can't run free or do much in our tiny place. At the house she can run up and down the stairs and down the long hallway. We cannot wait to get a new home so we all feel less squished. We know things could be worse but it has been 3 and half years now. Wow, that's hard to believe!

Hope you're enjoying your Monday!

Hugs!

Kim