Lol Karen. It's not Alabama, but being that I've gotten that more than once, maybe I need to change my name? Lol Alabama certainly is lovely though. Former NC girl in the great white North, Dakota that is. I was going for ala like ala mode. Or ala cadabra. *thinks* maybe I should get the definition before I use it in my name? :D

What a great story this is. I know my kitties will never be able to do such a thing for me, but all our pets, as Gandle says in a different thread, make our lives more complete. Thanks for sharing this tale.

my favorite of these pics are ALL of them, too. I love every one of them.You always have such gorgeous pics to see, iz look forward to all of your pics.That said, Now let me comment further on these beuties.Quietness is a beauty.i almost got that one years ago but, seen otherts i wanted too snd never did get this rose. The foxgloves are really pretty, too.thats one I have never tried to grow, now i wonder why not.now, I DO have Distant drums and love it.your LARISSA rose is a very pretty one too,I have never heard of it befor. POPe JOHN is a pretty white one. I love your landscape pictures.wE dont get a lot of snow here but its bad for ice storms here.We will very seldom miss a winter with no ICE STORMs HERE. One year. w,e had 2 bad ice storms 2 weeks apart in December.I was lucky that year and didnt lose power while others lost theres for weeks.. I love looking at pictures of snow, but dont wanr to live in it.I lived in it in ILLINOIS , where i was born and raised and said when I was grown I am moving out of it, and I did and havn't been back but once since then.Thank you for posting all these great p.ictures and pictures of the cats too. Jean

The suggestions about closing with one party absent confused me until I re-read my post - thank you for the ideas but I wasn't clear and we don't need to close with one party. DH and I are both staying here till closing as we don't have a place to go in the new state. We'll go to a Residence Inn type place till we find a house to rent, hopefully no more than a couple of weeks. No plans to buy until we explore more and figure out exactly where we want to be. This isn't retirement, but a let's shake things up and go some place pretty that we love and enjoy a new lifestyle. It's a total leap of faith, no family or friends there and DH will have to reinvent himself business wise a bit. Weedy exempt is sometimes called a pocket listing in other places - or at least that's what I've read here. We're not on the MLS and there's no sign although we could have one if we wanted but then there's no point in doing the exempt. It was a calculated choice/risk knowing we would see less traffic but trusting that our house would still draw interest from realtor word of mouth and that's exactly what happened. We had 2 realtors from different agencies bring in co-workers to view the house and give input as to pricing. Then they pull comps, make a package and presentation. Actually, the second realtor, the one we didn't hire, never got to present her analysis and suggestions because she wanted to make an appointment to do that sometime this week! The other realtor had her analysis and package pulled together and did her presentation within 24 hours of her company viewing. That method of determining pricing is standard around here but I'm learning from friends elsewhere that's not true everywhere. It's different than a realtors open which happens after you're listed. Anyway, we made the right choice although the other realtor doesn't see it that way, and unfortunately she's someone I've known a long time and is very hurt. It was a business decision, not personal but she's never going to see that :-( We signed contract papers last night, lawyers get them today. They agreed to our 11/15 closing and countered the price to 1.2% under our listing. It doesn't get much better. Still have the inspection hoops and lawyers so a reserved yippee is in order! Thank you all for being in my cheering section! This post was edited by dlm2000 on Wed, Sep 24, 14 at 14:21