Die Buchwalds

This strip is from Questionable Content Click the tiny version here to see a really long strip in which Dora finally listens to her cat.

So, holy crap this has been in the making for a long time. I had doubts for awhile, what with Dora being all supportive of everyone while being schemeing on the side and generally looking like she wasn’t going to make a move on him… again.

People are probably expecting Faye to flip out over Dora’s behavior. In the past, when Marten went on a date with Dora faye was totally anxious and not happy about the situation, assured that Marten and Dora were gonig to get horizontal. I doubt things will be much different this time; Faye clearly has feelings for Marten even though she isn’t ready to act.

The real question is how is Marten going to react? I’m on the fence about it. Personally I’m pulling for the extra drama angle where him and Dora get together. Next week: Hilarity ensues?

Also: For those that haven’t read QC, I probably made it sound like a drama-fest; it isn’t. Well, okay so it is a drama-fest, but it’s also a hilarious drama-fest. I laugh at an average of 2.3 panels per strip. It’s high-density hilarity at its finest.

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All three of the houses I talked about in my previous post were a bust. We actually did decide that we really liked the first house, but it sold two days after we saw it. It was a sad, sad day. Today, on the other hand, was fun. Our realtor took us to see a house he had *just* listed. He put it into the computer system literally less than an hour before he met us at the house. It’s an adorable little Cape Cod with “three” bedrooms and one and a half bathrooms. The basement is unfinished but useable. It has a back deck and a nice size yard (about a quarter acre). The only real negative is that it’s a little bit farther from where Matt works than what we had hoped for. The positives so far seem to outweigh that one negative, but we have one more house to look at tomorrow and then we’ll go back to this house & take a more thorough look, probably on Saturday. I’d love to post a link with all the details, but it’s so new it’s not showing up in the search yet.

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As mentioned in our year-in-review post, we’re moving. Our target is the direct center between Grove City and Blawnox, which means either Evans City or Zelienople. At first, we were just going to rent for another year to see if we liked living so close to our parents and how Matt felt about the drive. The problem with renting was going to be finding a place that would allow Ratzi to live there, too. Then, Josh told us about a house for sale behind where his parents live. That house was absolutely beautiful, though the location wasn’t the greatest (on a very steep hill), but it turned out to be too much for our budget. The more we talk about it and the more I looked online at different house listings, we decided to continue looking to see if there were any other houses that we could buy that would fit our needs/wants. There are a lot more options for buying a house than renting when a cat is part of the equation.
We’re going to look at two more houses, and I’ve found a third that I want to see, but I haven’t had a chance to mention it to the realtor.
Today’s houses:
**House 1 is in town, within reasonable walking distance of the local church and has a finished attic. It’s advertised as a third floor room, but who would want to spend any real time in an un-air-conditioned third floor room in July or August around here? The back yard appears to be a reasonable size for sending rugrats outside to entertain themselves :) It’s definitely an older home but doesn’t seem like it would need an excessive amount of work – the wall paper appears to be minimal.
**House 2 is a few miles outside of town. It has more land, but is smaller than House 1. The wall paper in this house is, in my opinion, excessive and would take quite a while to get rid of. If I remember this house correctly, it’s also on the corner of a pretty busy road, but the back yard does have a fence.
The other house :
**House 3 is a street over and further down from House 1. It’s the smallest lot of the three. It’s best feature is the beautiful front porch. I <3 front porches. Looks like I see a porch swing, too. I’m curious about what it looks like inside and what the back yard is like.

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