Andi - step away from the Amazon credit. Move the items to your wishlist and close the window. They will be there when you get your refund.

Talked to my dad last night about home buying stuff. He actually brought up the topic before I had a chance. I let him know I'm still on track and doing my research and am aiming to get pre-approved in March. He travels a lot, so my main question was if he would be in the US between March and June. His response - no plans at the moment, but a trip to Israel and/or Iran are possible. All righty then.

I like seeing the deer, but I wish they'd stop eating my pretty flowers in the spring before I even get to see them bloom. I've never seen a squirrel in this neighborhood. We had a big feral/stray cat population when I moved in, and while the TNR program was successful, we still have two or three cats. I think they do their job of keeping the rodents at bay. And there are a couple families of majestic crows that live around here. I enjoy watching them.

There was a wooded, swampy area behind my previous office. We use to see deer a lot. Once we saw a white deer. Just about the whole office was plastered to the windows on that side of the building for nearly half an hour.

We also had herons and hawks flying about a lot. I miss seeing them. Well, the herons, anyway. With all the squirrels in my area, hawks show up occasionally.

Thank you, Suzi. I closed the tab and returned to sane levels of want.

Yikes, Matt. Scary commute.

We do get a fair amount of hawks, but more vultures. The crows and ravens come and go. I haven't seen any squirrels hereabouts, but there are burrowing rodents of some sort in the cow pastures, good hunting for hawks, kites, etc.

Our inspection was not great. It is SO MUCH WORK to buy a house. Having long and complicated conversations with mr. flea is not the least part of the work. We have such entirely different styles. You'd think we'd have gotten better at this after having been a couple for 18 years, but apparently not. /is tired

Get-through-the-process~ma, flea.

My cube-neighbor is getting a new keyboard drawer (or somethinga dn probably other stuff) which will be good for her I'm certain but means I'm hearing power tools all day. That doesn't always annoy me, but today it sure does.

We'd see deer tracks in the parking lot snow at the old building. When I was doing the 6 AM shift on Sundays, I'd occasionally see deer actually browsing through our bushes.

Bummer about the inspection, flea. I hope you'll be able to get the house stuff worked out soon, so you and the family can get settled.

I don't know about the pointy ends of the flossing sticks, but someone once managed to escape from prison using dental floss. (Really - I don't have to make this stuff up.) He took dental floss - lots and lots of dental floss - and made himself a rope to escape with; I don't remember if it was just a rope or he made it into a rope ladder. Whichever it was, he got out of prison with it.

They stopped handing out packages of dental floss after that. I think they'd give prisoners a measured length ... and probably collected the used lengths (ick).