I have no idea when my sewing machine will get here but it is in transit and was shipped from Plainfield, IN. This is a place just west of Indianapolis so I'm hoping it will be delivered today...should be today...I was told it would be today. I got my fabric in the mail yesterday so I'll be able to complete the top of Maggie's duvet. I can't wait to try out all the different 600 stitches that it can make! I'm sure I won't necessarily try ALL 600...today...but I'll certainly try a bunch out. Like the quilting stitches of which there are about 71. Everything from flowers to boats to dogs. The lettering is amazing...I could even write in Greek or Russian! I'm sure all will be happy when I get this machine so I stop talking about it, huh?
Other plans today: I'll do a grocery shop today so that Jimmy will have food for next week while I'm in PIB. I'll make him some breakfast burritos as well. I'll walk Sami, of course. I'll do a clean and maybe lay out if my sewing machine doesn't get here until later in the day.
Interesting goings-on in the Dirtsters house up the street. Background info: Three houses up from us is a house that was sold about 8 years ago from an older couple who moved to Mobile, AL. The house was for sale forever because of the economy. It finally sold but was a "lease to buy" thing. The "family" that moved in was, to say the least, wack-a-doo. There was originally two "ladies", an older man (with no teeth...he only came out of the house to collect the mail and would gather it in bare feed and shorts at all times of the year...even the snow) and a younger guy. Rarely were they ever seen, although the "ladies" showed up one Halloween get-together we had. They wore no costumes but somehow still scared the shit out of us all. Not sure if they were sisters or lovers (which is fine)...they sort of looked alike but who knows. The ladies smoked those cigarillos (Swisher Sweets) and let me tell you, when their garbage was out, the smell was unbelievable. At one point in their about 5 years living in the house, they started collecting shit and just putting it in their driveway. Things like a workout bench, a broken entertainment unit, planters, chairs. That was cleaned up pretty quickly when the neighbor across the street called and reported them. They used to stick twigs in the ground (limbs that seemed to have just broken off from nearby trees) as though they would grow. At one point they had a pack of dogs that they let just wander the neighborhood. I'm pretty sure the same neighbor across from them had the SPCA come out and take them. Needless to say, these were not "Roth Ridge" quality people.
Several months ago, I noticed a U-Haul truck at their house. Immediately I got excited, thinking they may be moving. Indeed they did. Apparently they skipped out, covertly, leaving the owners high and dry. (Turns out the woman that bought the house, bought it to help these distant family members out with the understanding that they would make the mortgage payments.) Jim found out the story surrounding this house by tracking down the owners and calling them (not knowing if they were aware of the people hightailing it out of there). He also managed to get inside the house and said the place was basically destroyed. There was mold waist high on the walls in some places. Sad as it is really a nice home.
Well, over the next few days, someone - well three people - have been over there cleaning things up. They've done a ton in the yard: weeding, cutting down overgrowth, mowing etc. They've also been hauling the crap out of the garage (of which is up to the ceiling). There are dozens of bags of garbage in the breezeway as well. I can only hope that this means they plan on putting the place up for sale (please Jesus!). I can't imagine they could get much for it (unless they gut it and rehab it) but it's a house that deserves a nice family. Fingers crossed.
Okay well, I'm hungry and Sami is ready. TGIF! Thank God It's Fibay! Later!
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