Today’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “loan/lone.” Use them any way you’d like. Bonus points if you use both. Have fun!
Loan! The word looks strange when I type it here. But loans have been a big part of our lives for the past month. The loan for our new house in particular. The “paperwork” was crazy at times. Preliminary after preliminary had to be signed online. I did my best to read the fine print before signing and asked what they might have thought annoying questions, but I don’t like to just sign things without having some inkling of what they mean. By the time we got to the closing on Wednesday, I had seen almost everything already so, after a quick review, initialed and signed where the attorney said to. The stack of papers was daunting, but we got through it in half an hour. Whew! I would not want that job.
One cool thing about the closing is that they let Marley come in the conference room for all the signing. I had confirmed this ahead of time, and that’s why we went in person. He was a very good boy!
Now, we get to the moving which will probably take a couple of months and multiple trips since DIY Dave likes to do things himself. He often says, “I’m not frugal, I’m cheap.” He’s also a very hard worker for which I am grateful, most of the time. Two months will give me time to process and adjust to moving across the state after having lived in this same house for over 35 years.
My favorite part of the new place is the big backyard. For most of my life, I’ve dreamed about a backyard like this. All it needs is some fencing. And mowing…. The “barn” is really a workshop for David. In this picture below, you might be able to see David and Marley in the distance near the greenhouse. It’s going to be a lot of work, but I’m sure I’ll like doing it much more than paperwork!
The gallery includes an old guitar I painted, an eastern click bug on my mailbox, the sunset coming home from the closing, and a turtle with a cracked shell that I took to a local wildlife rehabilitator on Sunday. There was a lot more blood underneath than you can see in the photo. The wildlife rehabilitator thinks it will heal in a few weeks.
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