{"id":5868,"date":"2019-07-26T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:16:35","slug":"she-was-adorable-our-house-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=5868","title":{"rendered":"She Was Adorable!!! Our House Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, Friday\u00a0July 26, was our house closing.\u00a0 We had our meeting with the banker and lawyer and all the other assorted people this morning at 9:00am.\u00a0 MFH (My Favorite Husband) had taken a few hours off this morning from his new job and planned to head into the office immediately following the closing.\u00a0 We figured we’d have a nice leisurely breakfast and not be rushed for time. We’d arrive at the closing relaxed and prepared to sign our name about a zillion times and then leave to do the rest of our day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most of the day went exactly like that.\u00a0 The only thing that was different was Tess decided to climb the stairs to the first landing.<\/p>\n

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Tess is very proud that she has learned to climb the stairs!\u00a0 She thinks she’s a pretty special puppy because those stair are big and steep.\u00a0 Bear in mind she’s never made it past the first landing but we won’t mention that part of it to her.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Even though she’s climbing those stairs like the amazing puppy she is, getting back down is another story.\u00a0 It takes tons of puppy treats, coaxing, puppy hugs, lots of praise and TIME to get her back down the stairs. Time is exactly what we didn’t have because she climbed the stairs when it was almost time to leave.<\/p>\n

We finally had to resort to the leash with MFH in the lead gently tugging and me behind, pushing.\u00a0 This is the same technique we use to get her out of the car when we go to the vet.<\/p>\n

Long story short, we got the dog down the stairs, closed the doors leading to the stairs and drove to the closing.<\/p>\n

Our closing was being held at the bank.\u00a0 Seeing as we were running a little behind schedule, we arrived exactly at 9:00am.<\/p>\n

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MFH and I were approaching the door when an elderly woman and a younger woman helping her along, were getting to the door at about the same time.\u00a0 We stopped while MFH held the door open for the two women.\u00a0 The younger of the two said, “Go on ahead.\u00a0 You don’t need to wait on us.”\u00a0 MFH said, “You’re here!\u00a0 Let me hold the door for you!”\u00a0 So the two women walked into the bank.<\/p>\n

Now, the older of the two women was hilarious!\u00a0 Feisty!\u00a0 Sassy!!!\u00a0 I loved her immediately even though I didn’t know her.\u00a0 She had an amazing sense of humor and was saying little zingers as they were walking into the bank.\u00a0 She. Was. Awesome!<\/p>\n

Upon entering the bank, our banker and lawyer met us AND the other two women!\u00a0 Oh~this was interesting!!!<\/p>\n

Come to find out, that older woman?\u00a0 The feisty one?\u00a0 She was the owner of the house we were purchasing!\u00a0 How awesome is that!?!<\/p>\n

That lady and I connected.\u00a0 It was like an instant #GirlCrush.\u00a0 We “got” each other.\u00a0 Holy Cow she was great!!!<\/p>\n

Now, this woman is 97 years old.\u00a0 Isn’t that amazing!?!\u00a0 She just moved out of the house about a year ago.\u00a0 She’s sharp as a tack upstairs but her body is starting to rebel against upstairs for bedrooms and showers.\u00a0 Downstairs for living space and the basement for laundry.\u00a0 I don’t think she went up to the attic often. It’s just recently she moved into an assisted living facility.<\/p>\n

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She told us stories about the legend of the buried money in the house *false story~sad panda!* She told us about the cistern under the driveway.\u00a0 She told us about the pump that is still in the basement that had been used to pump water from the cistern to do the hot water heat in the winter! The fireplace is wood-burning (we’d wondered about that).\u00a0 She mentioned how the kitchen wasn’t original to the house but had been added on shortly after the house was build in 1886 (yes, the house is that old).<\/p>\n

She told how she would hang up the laundry in the back yard to dry.\u00a0 She loved all her trees.\u00a0 The apple tree was 5 years old and had been a gift from one of her kids.\u00a0 She has pets buried in the yard AND,<\/p>\n

She’s madly in love with Tess!!!<\/p>\n

Apparently, when they presented our offer to her, they told her about Tess and how awesome she is and how BIG she is!<\/p>\n

Immediately after all the paper work was done, she asked to see a pic of Tess.\u00a0 I showed her one and she simply melted in happiness!!!\u00a0 She’s a dog person if I’ve ever seen one.\u00a0 I know she and Tess would hit it off great!<\/p>\n

I told her how much we loved the house and told her a few stories and it made her so happy.\u00a0 She loves this house much more than I do right now.\u00a0 I can only hope to love it as much as she does.<\/p>\n

How I wish I could have gotten a selfie with her but her daughter (the other woman) has kinda grouchy?\u00a0 I mean, she was nice and everything but not nearly as awesome as her mom.\u00a0 So, I chickened out and didn’t ask for a pic.\u00a0 Just trust me, she’s adorable!!!<\/p>\n

Now, just a few pics of the house and yard if you happened to miss them when I posted them online.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the front of the house.<\/p>\n

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This room is where we’ll be displaying a lot of our antiques.\u00a0 I have an extensive antique radio collection and they fit nicely in here along with the grandfather clock.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Master bedroom<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Living room bay window.\u00a0 I told myself this room wasn’t that large?\u00a0 Currently is has my large antique buffet, two full size 1840’s sofa’s, and antique Edison Victrola and and few other furniture pieces along with a zillion boxes in it and there’s plenty of wiggle room!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Side view of the house.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Tess’ arch nemesis stairwell landing.\u00a0 *goofy dog*<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>More of the room with the fireplace.<\/p>\n

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I’m like a kid in a candy shop with this house and I can’t believe it’s ours!!!\u00a0 Now that the paper work is signed, I can start putting things up on the walls.\u00a0 This is awesome!!!\u00a0 One of these days I’ll be able to show you pics of this place all put together.\u00a0 Isn’t this exciting!?!<\/p>\n

#IRun4Aiden<\/p>\n

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This morning, Friday\u00a0July 26, was our house closing.\u00a0 We had our meeting with the banker and lawyer and all the other assorted people this morning at 9:00am.\u00a0 MFH (My Favorite Husband) had taken a few hours off this morning from his new job and planned to head into the office immediately following the closing.\u00a0 We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,27,22,26,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5885,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}