On the move

I can't believe I went a whole month without updating everyone!

I do have a good excuse, though. Y'see, Mom is selling our house and we're moving!!!!!

Mom has to drive to the next town over for her work (it's 25 km's away but takes half and hour) and she decided gas costs so much it makes sense to move to the next town as it will save her at least $200 a month and she can get to work earlier.

Right now I leave around 8 and it can take 45 minutes to drive north on the highway, what with all the commuter traffic. Gas is $1.25 a litre and costs me around $300 a month. The place I'm interested in is 5 km from work, all residential streets so I'm still looking at around 10 minutes, but gas should only cost me $100 a month!

The new town has lots of parks and school yards so maybe if I learn to come when I'm called I can play off-leash - I'm going to try really really hard to learn to come when Mom calls me 'cause I really want to run around without my leash on.

It also has all the amenities I need, major grocery shopping, all the standard stores (Staples, Canadian Tire, Panago Pizza, vet clinic, Sushi restaurant, etc.) in a small town (pop. 35, 000).

Anyway, Mom has been working really late for the past two weeks so she hasn't had much chance to 'stage' the house so this weekend it's been a cleaning frenzy around here. I'm trying to help (mopping the floors, chasing dust bunnies outside, etc.) but Mom keeps trying to step on me. She said if she has an 'open house' I have to go to Vegas for a few days.

Mom said she found a great new house for us, though. She said "It's HUGE, Kira! You're gonna love it!" It's still a townhouse 'cause Mom likes 'townhouse living' and it has a fenced backyard so I won't have to be tethered when I Gotta Go. Mom is putting in an offer today on the new place.

Almost 2000 sq. ft., 3 levels, 3 bedrooms/3 baths, huge walk-in closet in mstr. bedroom, dedicated home office space...I damn well hope they accept my strong/fair offer! Other places I looked at only had the partial 'privacy fence' jutting off the sides of each unit and no option to put up a pet fence, so at least this place is fully fenced!

So between the excitement at work the past few weeks, Mom scrubbing the house out, and that we may be moving, I've been too busy to write.

I hope she leaves Willy here, though - I think it would be too unfair to uproot him from his home. Maybe the new people will understand and let him stay here...

Nice try, Kira. Willy comes with us.