It was MARVELOUS to have some bright sunny
days with temps in the 70's and even 80's.
But now it's back to reality for awhile as
we're going to be in the 50's and 60's till
further notice =(
Earlier this week my kid went on a school
trip to St. Louis. Hubby and I took the
afternoon to go house shopping, go out for
drinks and eats at Colton's, and then go
to school to wait for the bus.
Which brings me to house shopping - we're
starting to look for a house in the town.
I WANT TO MOVE TO THE MOJAVE DESERT, but he
doesn't want the stifling summers. I hate
the constant cleanup of country life here,
the sharing of the well, the rental neighbors
(although it does get quite interesting on
those occasions when the cops break neighbor's
door down and raid the place), etc. SO
if we're staying, I think city life is for me!
I haven't lived in the city (or town in this
case) in many years, but I can adapt. Just have
to figure out how the cat is going to adjust.
So I find houses of interest, give the paper to
hubby, he checks them out and narrows the list
down. On one, I found a $27,000 fixer upper.
He checked it out, said it was in need of a lot
of TLC, and oh yeah Molly, there's a cemetery
not far from the place. Okay so I thought
a cemetery was across a field or something and
from the house I might glimpse a headstone or two.
I could live with that.
WRONG.
He takes me to the house. We're kind of talking
about how much is too much to put into an old
house. I glance at the very tiny back yard (the
front yard is larger and fenced), and notice
a sign or something. Is that on the property?
What does it say? I go walk through the back
yard, walk up to the sign, look, nothing written.
Look DOWN and there are two freshly dug graves.
WELL EW!
I could sit on the back porch of the house and
throw rocks to the graves. I don't want to
be that close! I did the sign of the cross and
we got out of there.
I did fantasize about Halloween parties at the house
though, how fun they could be =)
We then went on to check out other places.
