I went up to Clarksville on Thurs afternoon for closing bright and early on Friday. All the papers are signed and we are no longer home owners. It’s very nice! For the first time in almost 7 years we don’t have to worry about being solely responsible for a house! It’s really nice to be able to call the landlord when things need to be fixed around the house and know that if it’s something we can’t take care of he’ll have a repair person out to look at it within a very short amount of time. I think we’ll stick to renting for a while. In this economy buying a house isn’t the “investment” it was years ago and I don’t need the stress of waiting for a house to sell again anytime soon.
While I was gone Nicholas sent me this picture of Kady.
She apparently decided that the deck was feeling a little hard and she wanted a bed out there to lay on. N walked in there because he heard the “sssss ssssss ssssss” of it sliding across the floor in the kitchen. lol She is a smart girl. Since we know she’s going to get big I’ve been working to teach her to sit before I feed her and I won’t let her eat until I say she can and she’s been very good at that the last few feedings. I don’t want her to keep rushing to the bowl and knocking the food all over the place when we try to put it down. Ki and Pooh say they are glad they aren’t puppies anymore and don’t have to learn all these crazy manners we are teaching Kady like Sit! haha Spoiled mutts. They are all keeping us very entertained that’s for sure. Pooh is finally running around and playing a lot more with Kady now. I really think it’s because she realized how big Kady is getting and she wants to put her in her place now! However that’s causing fights between Ki and Pooh because as much as Ki doesn’t really like Kady either she doesn’t want Pooh to be dominate.
We have had sooooooo much rain in the last 2 days. Mainly today but it rained on and off all day Sun. The airport a few miles from us is reporting around 7 inches of rain today. There’s a lot of flooding in all of Birmingham and a lot of people without power. We’ve been lucky so far and it’s flickered a number of times but keeps coming back on. N is working tonight and I told him that if it goes off and stays off we’re packing it up and going to stay with him at the base. He didn’t even bother wearing his flight suit to work when he left the house. He took it with him so he could change when the rain moves out but he figured he might as well be comfy for most of the night. Kady doesn’t know what to think about all the rain, she has probably poked her head out the dog door 100 times today she wants to go out so bad. I’m not sure if Pooh as even peed all day. They can’t stand to be wet and I can’t blame them, we’ve had a steady medium to heavy rain the majority of the day. We really needed it though so I’m not complaining, I just wish there had been a few breaks for the girls to all go out and potty. Now I wish we could send this rain over to TX to help with all the horrible fires they are dealing with right now. So many homes have been lost and it breaks my heart.
We bought a new bed yesterday. We’ve been waiting until the papers were signed on the house to go buy one. We have hated that old bed for a while now. We bought it right before N deployed the second time but it was obviously horrible quality and had a big sag in the middle in no time. I have a number of friends with temperpedic beds and I’ve always liked the feel of memory foam. Mari has one and I’ve slept on it a few times at her house and loved it. We went in there at 1 and the bed was delivered by 4 yesterday! Pretty fast service. And since it is Labor Day weekend we got 2 free pillows since they can’t lower the prices on the Temperpedic brand mattresses. I slept with the new pillow last night and really liked it a lot. It will be so nice to sleep comfortably and not wake up with my lower back and hips aching in the morning. The bed is a few inches shorter than our old one so now the dogs (and I mean Ki because she’s the only one that won’t walk back down the steps but Kady will be to long and big to do that soon! lol) won’t have as far to jump down off the bed. We were worried about them jumping onto the slick hardwood but Ki almost always makes sure to jump down on my side where the rug is with the grippy pad under it so she doesn’t slide.
That’s about all that’s going on around here. I don’t update as often because I really don’t have too much to say. This will be a very busy month for N because he has a week of training in FL for the new company on top of working a few extra days for another pilot ( just looked at the calendar and I think he’ll only have 4 days off this month!) . We keep trying to plan a few days home but it never fails that something comes up that keeps us from being able to do it. I’m hoping after everything calms down and we get into Oct we’ll be able to come home during his week off. All these aircraft shuttles back and forth to TX really kept our schedule messed up in Aug because things were always so last minute. I’ll probably come home for a few days while he’s either working or in FL. I have to make the drive for the first time with Kady sooner or later and I haven’t been home since June and didn’t have much time to visit at all on that short trip.
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