IKWYM, LadyM, about having people in the house, too... and it would make me uncomfortable, too, but what Harmony said should make you feel better. I guess most people would be a little hesitant about appearing "nosy" or something. Dbil kept talking about having an (on site) auction of the stuff no one in the family wants at dmil's house, and dh said he didn't like that either, b/c ds/ddil will be living there afterwards and keeping a lot of the stuff, and he didn't want people "traipsing through" and everything. I still don't know what we are going to do when the time (finally) comes and dbil gets his act together to make progress with this.
Anyway, I can't complain too much about someone making no progress. I have been living like I'm on vacation this entire week. If I were tracking my days it would be like this: Sleep/Do Nothing/Sleep/Do Nothing/Help dh transfer one of his "favorites" from aol to chrome/Sleep/Do Nothing... * sheesh *
Today I've had a couple of phone calls from dmom's church secretary, trying to get in touch w/dmom, but apparently dmom DID show up and met her painter there. Dmom's 2nd house (my dgrandmother's house) is next door to the church, and she had a painter coming from about 40 miles away today, and she had said she would leave the key at the church. Well. The painter showed up before dmom got there w/the key.
Then the secretary called back b/c dmom forgot to give them her cell phone number, and dmom wanted the church custodian/our cousin's dh, to call her -- b/c she needs him to do some electrical work.
I told them it won't do any good to have her cell phone number b/c she never turns it on or checks it, apparently. She has not returned my calls in two days. And she knows I can't call her house b/c she still has no phone service there since the gas company cut the lines. * sheesh *
Last night ds/ddil/dgs went out to see her -- haven't seen her in over two weeks, and every time I talk to her she says she wants them to come out so she can get a picture of dgs in his Halloween costume. I know I told her they would probably come last night b/c ds would be out of town this weekend...
Well, she wasn't home when they got there, and when ds finally got her to answer her cell phone, she said last night was not a good time (she didn't know they were already there) and that they would do it another time.
* sheesh again * * sigh *
I told ds at least they had tried.
She has all these big plans -- she wanted to make homemade chilli for them and all this Halloween tradition stuff she used to do when ds was little... but then she doesn't even CALL ds to make firm plans and when he calls her, it's not a good night. I don't know -- maybe she was going to choir practice last night, which would be a good excuse, but ds didn't mention it.
It just aggravates and frustrates me to no end.
BookSaver, I think I really AM hiding from the cold. It does NOT make me want to keep moving, it makes me want to hibernate. I still have on my housecoat. It's in the 30s here. Boy... I'm glad we almost never have severe weather lasting more than a day or two. It will definitely fall our lot to get food to dmom, too, if the roads are bad, and we aren't super prepared ourselves. At least ds now has the 4-wheel drive truck.
Snow for Nancy, too? Brrrr... I'd be right there with those chickens, huddled up by the dryer vent! Our dog used to like to lie under the dryer vent, too.
Hmmm... LadyM, maybe the trunk of the car would be a good place to stash some items, such as cash, during the day?
Oh my... (((LadyM))) -- just saw where you mentioned loss of 6800 jobs in the area! That happened here -- probably more like 4000 jobs? Might not have been that many... but it certainly seems to have hurt the real estate market in the nearest town, where my uncle is trying to sell my grandparents' house. Of course, the main part of this house is probably also 60 years old, and it was not in a prime real estate market to begin with. Duncle says he may have a buyer. She couldn't get an FHA loan, w/out duncle having to (in his words) "rebuild that house in order to sell it" -- but she said she understood and is trying to get another kind of loan, that won't have such strict requirements for the house on it. I know duncle will feel like a huge weight is off his shoulders when the house is sold, and I certainly hope this new development doesn't slow y'all down too much!
Dgrandparents' house has two bedrooms, one very large, and a fairly large kitchen, dining, living room, and den. But it has only one teeny tiny bathroom. Also, the yard is sorta cluttered w/four outbuildings -- one which is probably very useful, but two which are probably more eyesores than anything else.
Waving to Lilac... Kathryn... and all to come later!
Not really, I'm just working to get caught up after being away yesterday running errands. And I've been writing this post since early morning, but kept getting up to check something or do something ... though I guess the urge to keep moving is a good thing, right?