House Hunting over Labor Day Week-end

What?!! You might say. Why? Where?

The answer to "why" is because the price was so low that we just had to see it in person. The answer to "where" is Nashville. Well actually, about half-way between Nashville and Bowling Green, KY.

A real estate agent has us on her radar as prospective buyers if she can find something cheap enough. She emailed us last week with a listing for a very small, bank-owned home on sale for $34k. Since Larry had a free plane ticket and a free hotel room to use, we decided to use it for that.

Now, you're asking... Did we buy? No. Not yet. We're still talking. Maybe we'll make an offer and maybe we won't. The house isn't livable so it would be a project to work on over time. Fortunately, we have a place to live so that's not a big deal. What we have to decide is if we want to take on the challenge and if we want to be attached to a specific place.

I'd love to share some photos with you but I left my camera in the rental car when we climbed into the agents car. He (the agent's husband) took photos and gave me a floppy disk but neither of our computers take a floppy. Wal-mart probably has a way of transferring them to a CD but right now it's not worth the effort.

As a result of looking at that house I have about two dozen flea bites. If you're one of the few I've already told about this then the total number of bites has increased since then. I discover more every hour. Hopefully, I didn't bring them home with me! When I discover a new one I cover it with a little round band-aid so I won't scratch them. I'm beginning to look polka-dotted!

You wouldn't have believed the fleas. The agent is the one who discovered them because he was wearing light colored pants. They didn't show up so much on our blue jeans; but, they were there - in hordes! I mean, thousands!! We ran outside and jumped and slapped and brushed, over and over again. We'd knock them off and they'd jump on again so we'd slap, brush and move to a new spot and repeat. I'm sure we were quite the spectacle if anyone was watching!