Stella's Social Club

[The Sheriff]

Oh Cyn, how you hit the nail on the head. If they would just do what they are supposed to do when they are supposed to do it and COMMUNICATE, everything would be so much better.

 

[The Sheriff]

I am going to spend my day working on a painted furniture piece to get my mind off the rest of this mess. We are powerless to change anything at this point.

 

[1muttsfan]

Sorry Mary

that you have had such a hard time. There is a great buyer out there, I just know it - new people enter the market every day.

 

[speckledhen]

Sorry Mary

that you have had such a hard time. There is a great buyer out there, I just know it - new people enter the market every day.

This is very true.


On the other side of the coin, it was my diligence that made me hate my job in the end. I was stood up three times by one guy. No more. When I asked one man to prequalify with our mortgage guy (in the office, no obligation), he refused, so I refused to take him anywhere. He was quite huffy, to say the least. How am I to know if he was just looking around or if he was an axe murderer? I worked many, many hours with zero pay. I lost money for years before I made any profit at all, with expenses and required annual classes, etc. And I never made more than $20K in any one year in all the eight years I did the job. But I did it to put my two sons through college. They both had the Hope Scholarship which paid for tuition but lived on campus and it was still costly with no college funds. I have horrible memories of the job, though I had several multiple-transaction, loyal clients.

Mary, you deserve someone who takes pride in their work, you really do, and I'm sorry you're having so much stress over it. Even with two great agents and two cooperative clients involved, the process is not stress-free.

 

[The Sheriff]

Decided to edit my rants and move on with life. When the deal falls through we will find another. I can't make myself any sicker.

On a happier note, we had an Icelandic chick hatch yesterday. Skye and one of Lukka's daughters had been sitting on it. When it pipped I took it and put it under Lukka's other daughter in another coop because it was hers to begin with. I moved her to a box on the floor with the baby. The chick is all yellow. The last remaining egg is under the other two broodies but there is very little movement in that egg. Should hatch today or tomorrow if it makes it. This officially makes everyone broody except for the new little pullet, Stella, Judge Judy and Isi! Oy!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Fingers crossed for the chick!

 

[speckledhen]

Decided to edit my rants and move on with life. When the deal falls through we will find another. I can't make myself any sicker.

On a happier note, we had an Icelandic chick hatch yesterday. Skye and one of Lukka's daughters had been sitting on it. When it pipped I took it and put it under Lukka's other daughter in another coop because it was hers to begin with. I moved her to a box on the floor with the baby. The chick is all yellow. The last remaining egg is under the other two broodies but there is very little movement in that egg. Should hatch today or tomorrow if it makes it. This officially makes everyone broody except for the new little pullet, Stella, Judge Judy and Isi! Oy!

Awesome! Does help to concentrate on chickens. Facebook is all about what's wrong with this world and our society in general. Makes me ill on a daily basis when I have to use it to check on my son in Korea, who is having to look for yet another job. If he stays one more year, he can become a legal resident there, what he wants to do, but until then, whoever he is teaching for technically owns his visa and if he doesn't have a job, he's out of the country (and back in my basement, but not for long. I can't have it). I must resort to chicken-hugging to get it all out of my head. I have a broody on Day 19 with 3 D'Anver eggs.

 

[1muttsfan]

While I am not on facebook my boyfriend is, and it is awe-inspiring the level of self-centered stupidity that people engage in there. Often including their children in the unwise exposure of their personal lives. I have to admit I check in on his page sometimes in the same way you would watch an insipid, poorly written soap opera. Except it's real!!

Yay for chicks

 

[robhuncor]

So sorry everything is going south, Mary.

Things will get better soon, I know it. Sometimes real estate deals take a lot of patience. We once put a deposit down on our "dream" house - the owner put it on the market the day after his beloved wife dropped dead during a dinner party! All furnishing included. We couldn't believe our luck! We had always loved this house. We signed the contract, sent it back with our deposit and, before he signed it, HE dropped dead!!! (3 weeks later!) We had already sold our other house but we hung in there while the estate was settled - 6 months!! and finally we got it settled - practically minutes before I gave birth to our first child. I must say though that In all my dealings in buying and selling houses (6 over the years), I have never had anything but wonderful real estate agents who all went the extra mile - one even became a life-long friend. You really have had a bad experience.

Chicken subject......

In May I traded a Lavender Orpington rooster for 7 LF frizzle hatching eggs. (I have a little Brinsea incubator) They hatched on 5/31. Today I heard the first crow!!! Heaven help me!

 

[The Sheriff]

So sorry everything is going south, Mary.

Things will get better soon, I know it. Sometimes real estate deals take a lot of patience. We once put a deposit down on our "dream" house - the owner put it on the market the day after his beloved wife dropped dead during a dinner party! All furnishing included. We couldn't believe our luck! We had always loved this house. We signed the contract, sent it back with our deposit and, before he signed it, HE dropped dead!!! (3 weeks later!) We had already sold our other house but we hung in there while the estate was settled - 6 months!! and finally we got it settled - practically minutes before I gave birth to our first child. I must say though that In all my dealings in buying and selling houses (6 over the years), I have never had anything but wonderful real estate agents who all went the extra mile - one even became a life-long friend. You really have had a bad experience.

Chicken subject......

In May I traded a Lavender Orpington rooster for 7 LF frizzle hatching eggs. (I have a little Brinsea incubator) They hatched on 5/31. Today I heard the first crow!!! Heaven help me!

The babies are adorable. That being said, yikes! What a real estate nightmare story you have to tell. I just need to keep my sanity, or what's left of it until Wednesday night. By then I will know if we are moving forward on this deal or going back to active status.

Thanks everybody!