Re: Camellia Camelo Suerte del Cielo DulcePaws
Oh, my most dearly beloved forum buddies - all your good wishes and prayers WORKED!
Yesterday I signed a year's lease for a really lovely place. I had gone to look at another, the night before, and hated it, but made a verbal agreement to take it, because it is SO difficult to find places around here that will take a dog.
But it was dreary, and I could only have had a tiny dog-run - no bigger than a boarding kennel, really - and with lattice fencing insufficiently high to be really secure, because the owner didn't want wire! Lattice only would have increased the darkness, too.
Yesterday morning, a beloved neighbor who is good at searching real estate on the Internet sent me email around 9:15, showing a place just up the road from me. I phoned the property management agent, and he agreed to meet us at ten at the place.
We'd done our morning promenade, so I popped Camellia into the car, and went and woke up Parrot Lady, who is Camellia's goDMother.
http://www.coherentdog.org/vek/parrotlady.php
Marg is a NIGHT, not a day person, but she agreed to join me to look at the place - where my head is fuzzy, hers is sharp!
Two hours later, I was signing a year's lease. The rent is beyond my means, but I should be fully eligible for a grant to cover part of the rent monthly; and we'll just squeeze by that way.
I can put in a dog-run - rather, my friends will. Not as big as our current one, but satisfactory, and I'll bring a few of Camellia's beloved alder logs!
Camellia loved the place too! She's just learned to cope with open outdoor stairways - learned that at the groomer's, then at Marg's. I used a clicker to help teach her.
http://www.coherentdog.org/clickbridge.php
It's light, airy, and really beautiful. It's partially furnished, and I decided to go ahead and rent it furnished - most of what I need is there, and I'll have a big garage sale and sell off my stuff from my current home.
Nothing will change about my address except the street name and number and the postal code. My phone will stay the same, also, my email address, so no hassles there.
We got home early afternoon, and immediately, I phoned the people who own the place we looked at the evening before, and told them I'd taken a different place. I made sure to tell them it was the dog-run that made the difference. I said NOTHING about the darkness of the place.
But where night before last, my heart was drowning in self-pity, yesterday and last night and today, my heart is singing with joy. Light makes SO much difference, and TRULY, Camellia needs a proper dog-run where she can feel safe and secure. Now she'll have one.
A side story: I was driving up and down that road day before yesterday, before we went to look at Dark Place - and a big construction truck was blocking the road. Turns out this truck had knocked down a fire hydrant Water was gushing and running down driveways. I took a couple of photos. Then we went to town, and after, to view the Dark Place.
The place I took is just above that fire hydrant. I wonder if that has some significance; haha!
Lots to do today; gotta run; I'll keep you posted!
Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:09:55 (PDT)
Oh, my most dearly beloved forum buddies - all your good wishes and prayers WORKED!
Yesterday I signed a year's lease for a really lovely place. I had gone to look at another, the night before, and hated it, but made a verbal agreement to take it, because it is SO difficult to find places around here that will take a dog.
But it was dreary, and I could only have had a tiny dog-run - no bigger than a boarding kennel, really - and with lattice fencing insufficiently high to be really secure, because the owner didn't want wire! Lattice only would have increased the darkness, too.
Yesterday morning, a beloved neighbor who is good at searching real estate on the Internet sent me email around 9:15, showing a place just up the road from me. I phoned the property management agent, and he agreed to meet us at ten at the place.
We'd done our morning promenade, so I popped Camellia into the car, and went and woke up Parrot Lady, who is Camellia's goDMother.
http://www.coherentdog.org/vek/parrotlady.php
Marg is a NIGHT, not a day person, but she agreed to join me to look at the place - where my head is fuzzy, hers is sharp!
Two hours later, I was signing a year's lease. The rent is beyond my means, but I should be fully eligible for a grant to cover part of the rent monthly; and we'll just squeeze by that way.
I can put in a dog-run - rather, my friends will. Not as big as our current one, but satisfactory, and I'll bring a few of Camellia's beloved alder logs!
Camellia loved the place too! She's just learned to cope with open outdoor stairways - learned that at the groomer's, then at Marg's. I used a clicker to help teach her.
http://www.coherentdog.org/clickbridge.php
It's light, airy, and really beautiful. It's partially furnished, and I decided to go ahead and rent it furnished - most of what I need is there, and I'll have a big garage sale and sell off my stuff from my current home.
Nothing will change about my address except the street name and number and the postal code. My phone will stay the same, also, my email address, so no hassles there.
We got home early afternoon, and immediately, I phoned the people who own the place we looked at the evening before, and told them I'd taken a different place. I made sure to tell them it was the dog-run that made the difference. I said NOTHING about the darkness of the place.
But where night before last, my heart was drowning in self-pity, yesterday and last night and today, my heart is singing with joy. Light makes SO much difference, and TRULY, Camellia needs a proper dog-run where she can feel safe and secure. Now she'll have one.
A side story: I was driving up and down that road day before yesterday, before we went to look at Dark Place - and a big construction truck was blocking the road. Turns out this truck had knocked down a fire hydrant Water was gushing and running down driveways. I took a couple of photos. Then we went to town, and after, to view the Dark Place.
The place I took is just above that fire hydrant. I wonder if that has some significance; haha!
Lots to do today; gotta run; I'll keep you posted!
Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:09:55 (PDT)
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