Die Buchwalds

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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A wave of animal cruelty has the World Wildlife Federation up in arms. On the first day of this new year a lion was found viciously mauled. A week later, a bengaled tiger was discovered horribly beaten. While the lion only had fresh wounds, the tiger appears to have been suffering
regular beatings for years.

Just seven days after that, a colt was found battered. People at the scene said it kept muttering something about not getting enough protection. A few days ago, Denver authorities found another horse, this time a bronco, wandering the streets. The horse was not physically injured,
but quite dazed and confused. When asked about the incident, the hapless horse said “I was at home and everything was fine. I was about to feed my pet snake when he started choking and screaming about some sort of terrible towel following it around.”

Rumor has it that the next target will be some sort of bird, a seahawk. All of the victims report trying to peek behind a giant steel curtain shortly before their incidents. As a result, the following warning has been issued to all animals:

Peek behind a steel curtain, get hit by THE BUS.

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