Houses, houses and more houses

Another busy weekend of househunting in our household. You get to see some pretty entertaining things as you tour around other peoples' houses. There was the house we saw where they bred Bernese mountain dogs. All the floors were crooked and the house REEKED like a big soggy dog. Then there was the private sale where the owner, an older woman wearing black jodhpur pants and gold lamé heels, gave us her very personal tour, complete with extended version stories of every nook and cranny of the place before announcing her astronomical asking price in a whisper. Then there's the house with the midget basement. The basement ceiling had to be no more than 5'6 because I had to seriously duck, yet it was finished. There was a bar and a fireplace, etc. The ceiling wasn't dropped so it had always been that height. It was very puzzling... had there been a family of little people drinking and carousing down here? Then, late yesterday afternoon we saw a place that ended up being on the same small street that two of our friends have places on, one of which we were returning to that night for a dinner party. That would be weird, would people worry that we were taking over the neighborhood, some kind of cult or communal living situation?

We've seen some nice places too, but no magic tingle yet... and we need the magic tingle. We kind of worry that one of us will get it and the other not, but hopefully that won't happen. Usually we're on the same page with these things so I'm not TOO worried.

The only other news is that Pica is very sick, which is a big downer. He spent the night on IV fluids and antibiotics and the clinic last night. I'm hoping that we can pick him up today but they think that they'll need to keep him overnight again. Nobody seems to be able to figure out what's wrong, he's had bloodwork and xrays and they show nothing. Hopefully he'll make a complete recovery really, really soon. Keep your fingers crossed! Io is very sad without his brother :( And after Dennis passing away earlier in the week we can't handle any more trauma.