It’s been a while since I’ve had time to post anything here. I’ve been struggling to keep up with Props & Pans. Our lovely dial-up country bumpkin internet service is SLOW! Note to realtor’s - you should really tell anyone who’s moving from the city to the country that things like DSL and Cable aren’t usually available.

Other than the internet connection our house is slowly becoming home to us. It hasn’t taken Ethan much time to meet and greet the neighbor kids. He can usually be found running from one yard to another. One great thing about our area is that our road is just a gravel lane with about 8 homes and every neighbor has young children. Being out by cornfields and away from the busy street we were used to, we can let Ethan run a little more and not worry as much.

This is the beautiful sunset we are quickly becoming accustomed to in the evening. The ambulance sirens and helicopter noises we were used to are becoming replaced with frogs and the sound of the wind whipping through corn fields.

Nate’s been doing a lot of the outdoor work and I’ve been playing Inspector Gadget indoors, looking for things we know we packed but aren’t sure where. Meanwhile over Memorial Day weekend, we had an odd request regarding our home in the city that was still on the market. A young man asked if he could stay the night in our empty home.

My first reaction was to think of the HGTV show “Sleep On It,” where people spend the night in a house to see if it is a good fit or not. Believe it or not, our realtor had never seen this show! I bet he’s never watched House Hunter’s either. In fact, he was quite shocked by the request calling it the “stupidest thing he’s ever heard of.”

We weren’t really opposed to allowing this, because we’d moved all of our items out except a love seat and bed. We did require some legal paperwork to hold the man liable for any damage, etc… It went well and he made us an offer. Now we are to the inspection phase and this guy submitted a list of 45 demands that he wants corrected.

For example:
Remove sandbox and sand from yard - Fine.

Replace furnace filter - There is a new filter sitting next to the furnace, but we can put it in if you really don’t know how.

Remove an old heavy dresser that was left in our basement - Fine hand me a chain saw.

Replace all light bulbs in the house with the new energy efficient ones - What? Does he not know where Wal-Mart is? Lazy ass.

Unplug a light hanging over the basement shower - He must be a double arm amputee right?

After two weeks of the back-and-forth ridiculous demands we finally gave him the final offer and a deadline to reply. Needless to say he backed out of buying our house and it is back on the wonderful market. There will be no more overnights. I’m fairly certain he made this list of demands during the 14 hours he spent alone combing the house for issues.