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Only one part of the roof is leaky, and we're getting that fixed. The rest of the roof is all new.

I think the cats are going to love it there. They'll have so much more room to roam around. And Lady took to the house like a fish to water. It's unbelievable how much different she is there than she was at the shelter. I was expecting she'd be this cat that doesn't mind attention, but would mostly want to loaf by herself all day. Instead, I got a cat that wants constant attention, follows me everywhere, plops herself down in front of my feet and rolls. As I was carrying stuff from my car through the back door, she got the bright idea to go down to the basement, lie on the floor and look up at me and watch.

It's like she's vying for title of "most affectionate cat we own", and I had no idea she was like that, especially after the shelter told me she had a bad attitude and would scream like a mountain lion. I guess cats just really, really hate the shelter and their personalities are dependent on how much they like their environment.

I think I do have "large house paranoia", though. If the cat is out of my sight for awhile, I might start to worry that it got stuck somewhere or somehow got out, and I'll go looking for her.

I still do that sometimes even here. If I come home from work and one of the cats is not in sight, I go looking for it. Usually, Mel is at the door, Pepper is on the big cardboard box (although lately she's also been in the big tower), and Hermes is on the bed. If Hermes is out of sight, I don't worry as much because he spends almost the whole day upstairs so that's usually where he is if he's not on the bed. If Mel or Pepper are missing, however, I get a little more concerned.

There was a dog in one of the yards somewhere behind us that barked the whole time I was there tonight. I heard its owners tell it to shut up several times, but it wouldn't. It must've known I was there, and because it doesn't know me, it was barking about it.

Some of the houses here have really neat enclosed porches. When we have enough money, I'm definitely getting that done. The pillars out front need to be redone eventually anyway.

I LOVE the refrigerator at the new place! It's SO much bigger than the one we have now (which broke anyway). I'll never have to worry about storage space again. It has a double-rack freezer and lots of storage compartments in the door. I guess the only problem is that it might obsolete the need for our awesome new mini-fridge, but it probably would just be a waste of electricity to run both if we don't need both.

I also like the outdoor storage shed. We might build a garage someday, and if we did that, we'd probably have to tear down the shed to make room, but it'll be a nice storage shed until that day comes. Crawl said we'd have to buy a snow shovel, but there are two in there that the old owners left behind.

Thanks!

There's a Kroger just about a block from the house. I'm going to shop there today to get some needed groceries and also to start filling the refrigerator so that it will consume less energy. We can't cook over there just yet (the gas company won't be over until the 1st of July to start everything up again), but I can take stuff back to the apartment as needed since I always stop there after work. If only you could walk a straight line and didn't have to work your way around properties, the house would actually be within reasonable walking distance of where I work now.

FO thought that getting rid of the cubes might encourage Hermes to stop rampaging so much, but I'm not sure it had that effect.

I don't want him to rampage less, that wasn't why I took the cubes away. It's because Mel and Hermes keep getting into fights over the cubes. One will get inside the cubes and the other will charge, and when they meet, they fight. I was going to leave the cubes until we move the cats themselves over there, but since they can't play nicely, I took them earlier.

It's probably just as well since they took up almost the entire back seat. I wouldn't have been able to take them in the same trip with the cats in the carriers.

And she was the one who was thinking of having a bird feeder back there.

I just realized that this is not a good idea for several reasons. 1. It might be too easy to accidentally back the car into it. 2. It will cause a lot of birds to shit on our cars.

Maybe if I really want a birdfeeder someday, I can put one out front somewhere. I don't think the cats will be too deprived of bird entertainment. There's always a bunch out there. I should clean the awnings out at the end of the year so the sparrows can nest there again next year.

So far, Crawl's sister has been a no-show, so I'm going to take the second load of the day over by myself. Damn. Even with a full day off of work, I don't think I'll be able to take more than one extra trip than I usually do, since it takes so long to load, drive over, unload, and drive back. No wonder we were so stressed out the time we had to move from the last apartment.