From Mom, August 26, 2009

Hello my fav-

I’m sitting outside of HH103 (or as I like to call it Hell Hell 103), eating an Oregon from Mochas Gracias. Yummy. It is the perfect combination all rolled into a neat package. I just got done replacing a water heater on this vacant unit. It wasn’t leaking or anything, but the seam in the back was split open. So only a matter of time before it goes kinda thing. There’s a bee buzzing around my PowerAde. Yum this is so good. You should have a list of stuff that you wanna do the next time your home. A lady that I talked to last week about one of the chocolate boys, called this morning all excited about him. They took the weekend to make their decision. I like it best when people take some time to think about everything involved with having a pet, especially a puppy. I’m totally stuffed now. I’m still waiting to hear back from the people that came out last night. I have someone coming down from Bellingham Saturday to look; they may end up with only one puppy choice to choose from. I sure wish I knew how long it takes for you to get a letter. I didn’t get anything from you Monday or Tuesday so I figure that you must be getting busier finally or not following your battle buddy around. So I’ve moved on to my next unit and once again the water heater has to go. It’s going to take awhile for it to drain there’s a lot of sediment in the bottom. I heard back from the couple that came out on Monday night and they’re mailing me a deposit. So now there’s just one left. I had someone call this morning and I’m waiting to hear back from her. I think that I’m going to tell here that he is chosen. I put a notice on my website for people to get on my waiting lists for Hiedi and Emma due to the high demand for the puppies. I just stopped and poked a wire thru the drain valve again and it seems to be draining better. At least I’ve really recently turned this unit and I don’t have really much that I need to do in here, except for the water heater. Joseph and I are replacing any water heater that we come across whenever we have just the slightest reason. Last week I did one just cause it was next door to another one I was doing. Our reasoning is that most of them are at least 20 to 15 years old depending on which phase it’s in and the life expectancy for one is on average 11 to 12 years. I told Joseph that they are ticking time bombs just waiting to go. It is way better to replace one on a turn that in someone’s apartments in the middle of the night. Gretchen was so funny last night. She was talking. She wanted to go outside and was going who who who bark and I said “do you need to go outside?” and Gretchen goes who who who who. Ha ha. It was so funny. She is such a clown sometimes. Of course Hiedi is still being Hiedi and Fritz, Fritz. Other than work and the puppies not much else is going on around here. Someone came out and measured Grandma and Grandpa’s garage door. So that should be getting installed in a couple of weeks. Sorry about my letter being all grease stained. The countertops aren’t exactly clean here. Still waiting for this water heater to drain, they drain a lot faster when they are upstairs. But I don’t like hauling them up and down the stairs. It’s starting to warm up. It’s about 4:30, I’m in M103 so now I’m getting the afternoon sun. All done with the water heater. Time for me to go home.

Love ya,
Mom