Surprises Galore

Someone asked me the other day if we've had any surprises - yeah, a few. The internet was a BIG surprise, or more correctly the lack of one. We are going to have to pay a heavy termination fee to Viasat  but the Verizon Jet pack works amazingly  - everything has hooked up to it easily and it  works so well even our friends were taken aback. You can hook up to 15 devices which is a lot, so far we've hooked up two tvs, on blueray DVD, a Roku, two tablets and 3 Alexas plus the phones and we still have room. The cat pee smell was sort of a surprise, not that I didn't expect it but it was a lot more than I had thought it would be. But we have in the past 6 days gotten it down to very tolerable, Kim remarked last night it just smelled like we have pets, but not in a bad way. Right now we're still dealing with RPS (Random Pee Spots) which are annoying - and they don't always smell all the time. You'll be sitting there minding your own beeswax and then suddenly the scent of Urine du Feline will waft gently past you. It makes us walk around like dogs hunting down a hidden hamburger, we had Kim and Stephen doing it last night, walking through the house,deeply sniffing.back tracking. We have it narrowed down at least. 

And speaking of last night - given the state of the house when we first arrived 6 days ago I was very surprised we could have someone over for dinner, but we did! Kim and Stephen brought dinner with them and what a great way to end the week. We spent the morning scrubbing down the place - again. We brought the table in and I even found my table cloths. The weather cooled off greatly - there's another surprise. I knew the temperatures were lower here, when I sent the girls some summer clothes Brandi had told me four pairs of shorts were more than enough since there usually wasn't a big opportunity to wear them. At night it's in the 50's and during the day it is usually hovering around the 70's. When we first arrived it was VERY hot and since we cannot open most of the windows it was awful! But we were assured it was unusual and it appears so. So dinner was fun, Kim brought their wee little dog Piglet and we just kept swapping the dogs out so no one got eaten.

Kim looked at our tree and said it's a Pecan tree - and we have two! They're both loaded - the Marion Blackberries should be ready to pick late June, early July - good surprise! They brought over Marion Berry wine and it was pretty good. It's so wonderful living somewhere that I really know people! I'm driving out tomorrow to visit Kim at her house in Seaside for the first time. We will spend the day together and I'm very much looking forward to it.