Ready for Hallowe'en

As the kids will be with their mother this Halloween, Karen will be taking the dogs out this year with our neighbour Tanya and her dog Sabie and child Austin. I (Karen) saw these at the store while buying dog food and, being so close to Halloween, they were less than 4 dollars each, so I couldn't resist. I didn't have much choice, as I guess most people with dogs this big don't dress them up...... The makers of these costumes are obviously appealing to people who own miniature dogs (which Daryl would describe as "rats" or as "puntable"..... as in what you do to a football).

Anyway, I saw this black tank-top (a.k.a a "wife beater" that's such a terrible expression but it does look rather trailer-park-ish)) in Logan's size and I thought: "I'm kind of a big deal" sums up exactly what Logan thinks he is. And of course our little angel is yes, being an angel. We'll see how long the wings last, my guess is that Logan will have them ripped off before we get to the end of the block.

SOLD!!!!!!!

Today a deal was finally struck! All conditions have been lifted and we have officially sold our house. We can now put an offer in on a house in Cranbrook. Yeah! For posterity, I took a picture of the sign. Daryl is currently living in Cranbrook at his brother's and looking there for our new place, as well as hunting. Between the 4 hunters, they have got 2 elk and a moose, so we won't have to worry about meat this winter. I put in my resignation letter for VGH emergency a few days ago. YES!!!!!!! We will be moving late November, just in time for Christmas!

FOR SALE

We put the house on the market about a week ago. If anybody wants to see our home, go to http://www.mls.ca/ mls#268480. The pictures were done by a photographer hired by"DFH" the company we are selling through. Sadly, they did not post any pictures of my garden or the hot tub which I found a bit strange as I would think those would be BIG selling features. But they are mentioned at least. Anyway, we hope it will sell quickly this time, we have had 8 showings so far.

Cleaning Up for the Move

We recently put our house up for sale. Daryl is already in Cranbrook looking for work. Karen will be joining him early December once her contract with VIHA (health authority) is finished. We recently bought a steam cleaner for the carpets as with two large dogs, the kids... yes..... and Karen (a.k.a "spilly-nilly") we found that last time the house was on the market we were calling the carpet cleaners too frequently. I (Karen) figure the thing has almost paid for itself.

Here is Shayla who loved cleaning the carpets and was overheard to be saying: "I"m going to buy one of these things when I grow up!" It IS highly satisfying to see the "clean line" in the carpet as all the brown crud gets steamed up. Julee, you would Love this! You don't even realize how dirty the carpet is, and then you start the machine up, and suddenly there is a huge clean carpet line in the middle of what you can now see as ICK!!!! ......so satisfying!!!!! Look how dirty the water is in the container in the picture! and our carpets didn't even look too bad this time.