Well, I disappeared again! I missed Thanksgiving with TCS - hope everyone that celebrated had a great one! We had Gary's mom with us - our first Thanksgiving in our first house.
Just in case anyone's been curious - I've been absent for so long basically because of work and illness.
Gary and I aren't currently employed, though we still have to talk to our customers and companies (we're analysts that write on publicly traded companies, and our customers are the money managers of hedge funds and mutual funds). Licensing laws changed earlier this year, and to be publishing analysts, you now have to have a series of licenses - and the exams are REALLY difficult! (Just about everyone we know is having trouble with these exams, so it isn't just us!)
We've been taking accounting courses - and because we just moved into the new home, Gary's mom came for an extended stay, then my parents came up. ...and while they were here (late Oct) we got really, really sick. Spent a few days in the hospital with pneumonia - then took weeks to recover. Then it was Thanksgiving and Gary's mom was back - and then finally got caught up with everything, popped over here to catch up - and TCS was down! Wow was that weird!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, TCS is back, and I'm back - for a little while, anyway - and boy have I missed everyone!
But I realized I never got to post pics of the house with our stuff in it! We got all those storage facilities closed - and it's funny. Everyone who comes over says all shocked- Wow! It looks like you've lived here for 10 years! Well, we may have lived in the RV for 10 years, but we were collecting stuff! So apart from the furniture, which is new, we HAVE 10 years of stuff, LOL!
Anyway, this house is definitely our home now. I don't have pics of it, but we built an "RV pad" out next to the garage - and Holly (our RV) is here with us too!
And a quick update on Ming Loy. I posted for a few days back in September/October when I had some time, and little Ming Loy had just come home. She was born with a scarred cerebral cortex (mom cat was sick while she was in the womb is what Doc thinks), and her back legs don't work too well. She's built up a lot of strength in her front legs - though another condition of the scarring is that she shakes - and the more excited she gets, the more she shakes. So when she walks around, she looks kind of like a drunk with Parkinsons. She is the SWEETEST thing in the world! Flowerbelle seems like a moody meanie next to this little kitty (and Flowerbelle's a sweetie!) We have never, ever met such a happy cat. She is so content - though she's assertive, and I would not be the least bit surprised to see her turn out to be the alpha cat of this house.
The one thing we never considered is how noisy it would be to have a crippled kitty in the house. When she's playing or running, she uses both back legs at the same time - and she can launch herself 3 - 4 feet. So she comes down with a "THUD!" Thankfully, she's built up enough strength in her front legs that she can now get down the places she climbs up, so our entire house does not look like we live in a rubber room anymore, LOL! (We had about a billion pillows everywhere, so she wouldn't knock herself out by bumping into sharp corners or falling off a 6' cat tree). She flies up those stairs with the rest of the gang - but good girl that she is, she's a bit more careful on the way down.
Anyway, I can't seem to find a bunch of pics I thought I had, but here's a couple.
The outside, after some landscaping:
Just in case anyone's been curious - I've been absent for so long basically because of work and illness.
We've been taking accounting courses - and because we just moved into the new home, Gary's mom came for an extended stay, then my parents came up. ...and while they were here (late Oct) we got really, really sick. Spent a few days in the hospital with pneumonia - then took weeks to recover. Then it was Thanksgiving and Gary's mom was back - and then finally got caught up with everything, popped over here to catch up - and TCS was down! Wow was that weird!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, TCS is back, and I'm back - for a little while, anyway - and boy have I missed everyone!
But I realized I never got to post pics of the house with our stuff in it! We got all those storage facilities closed - and it's funny. Everyone who comes over says all shocked- Wow! It looks like you've lived here for 10 years! Well, we may have lived in the RV for 10 years, but we were collecting stuff! So apart from the furniture, which is new, we HAVE 10 years of stuff, LOL!
Anyway, this house is definitely our home now. I don't have pics of it, but we built an "RV pad" out next to the garage - and Holly (our RV) is here with us too!
And a quick update on Ming Loy. I posted for a few days back in September/October when I had some time, and little Ming Loy had just come home. She was born with a scarred cerebral cortex (mom cat was sick while she was in the womb is what Doc thinks), and her back legs don't work too well. She's built up a lot of strength in her front legs - though another condition of the scarring is that she shakes - and the more excited she gets, the more she shakes. So when she walks around, she looks kind of like a drunk with Parkinsons. She is the SWEETEST thing in the world! Flowerbelle seems like a moody meanie next to this little kitty (and Flowerbelle's a sweetie!) We have never, ever met such a happy cat. She is so content - though she's assertive, and I would not be the least bit surprised to see her turn out to be the alpha cat of this house.
The one thing we never considered is how noisy it would be to have a crippled kitty in the house. When she's playing or running, she uses both back legs at the same time - and she can launch herself 3 - 4 feet. So she comes down with a "THUD!" Thankfully, she's built up enough strength in her front legs that she can now get down the places she climbs up, so our entire house does not look like we live in a rubber room anymore, LOL! (We had about a billion pillows everywhere, so she wouldn't knock herself out by bumping into sharp corners or falling off a 6' cat tree). She flies up those stairs with the rest of the gang - but good girl that she is, she's a bit more careful on the way down.
Anyway, I can't seem to find a bunch of pics I thought I had, but here's a couple.
The outside, after some landscaping:
