Up bright and too early. Was not able to sleep in as long as I wanted. So early it is. Emily was up early as well. She had the same sleep issues.
We did the usual am stuff. Food for all. Emily left to go to her yoga workout. I finished reading the paper in peace. That’s my favorite workout. But I had chores too. Put out the garbage, mow the lawn, pick up the dog poo. All the fun stuff. The great thing about living in a rental is not having any homeowner duties. Nothing to fix, ever. So my days off are more days off from the house. Our last house was an insane amount of work. Glad it’s sold.
Emily returned from workout. I was done with all my chores, had a shower, cleaned up everything. Nothing left
She took a shower and afterward started cruising Zillow for houses to view. Sadly, she found a couple that we thought were worth seeing. And both had open houses today. How lucky. Not.
Dogs were headed to the groomer today. So we called the groomer and she let us drop the dogs early and leave them for extra time so we could quickly scoot up to Auburn and see the places. Which is what we did.
Anyone familiar with Zillow knows it to be an effective marketing tool. They have full disclosure of property for sale in writing, and pictures. About 30 for any given house. So we both read through the listings in detail before we left.
So we left. Headed to groomer in Woodland. Then up Hwy 5 to 80 north to Auburn. A 45 minute drive.
First house, fabulous 50’s mid century modern home. No. Funky old house with very piece mealed improvements of sorts. $100k at least needed to bring front and back yard up to livable standards. Zillow only had photos from a distance. No wonder. Neighborhood was very nice, just beautiful. Of course you live in the house. So we were screwed by a listing on Zillow.
Second home, we walked up to it and Emily was just gushing. It’s my house, blah blah. I noticed the very long overdue need of a total paint job. $$. We went inside, and downhill we went. The kitchen was clean, sort of, but cabinets were chewed up. We toured the house. Everything inside was old, though it photographed well. The master math was remodeled nicely. So what. Nothing else was. There were four levels of decks in various states of rot. Sure, spend $100k. The home was completely unspecial.
I need to learn how to read a Zillow listing or I may waste all future weekends going up and down the foothills 80 corridor. We have another listing we want to see in Newcastle. Not sure I want to go.
Down the hill, disappointment on the breeze that blew in the car windows. Or maybe that was residue from all the fires. Can’t say.
We went to Woodland and picked up the dogs. Groomer was her usual grumpy self though her husband was in a fine mood. We had a nice chat.
We went to a furniture store on Main Street to see a particular chair Emily had picked out for the new house. Store closed. This day is not successful.
Home, no more worries. One screw up. We meant to go to the grocery store. We forgot. So out again. Got our groceries. Back to the house. Fixed food for stupid animals. Then food for us. Meatloaf again which is the only win today.
We have been watching bad TV for the the last 90 minutes. I even saw part of ET. Please blind me, that show is horrible.
It is now late enough, finally, to go to bed. This day is done. Maybe I can accomplish something of import tomorrow.