houses, houses, and more houses

andrew had today off, and (since we are still in the glorious time we call track-out) so was i, so we had a world of possibilities in front of us when we woke up this morning. i didn't care about what we did as long as we were together (i know, barf, but it's true) and enjoyed the beautiful day.

to start the day off, we went to oberlin to force-feed lil' kitty because she wouldn't eat for them BUT was finally being nice to them, so they decided i could once again be the bad-guy and get her to eat. she has to be eating on her own before she can come home because we got her liver biopsy back and, as well as getting over the pancreatitis, she has a bit of hematic lipidosis, which is basically treated by forcing the cat to eat until the liver has chilled out. as well as the liver biopsy, they also got back her coagulation panel, which showed that she is having clotting problems. dr page thinks it's from eating rat poison or something. for that, she has to take vitamin k either orally or subcutaneously to be able to go home. so we're all hoping she'll keep all the food down, take her meds ok, and be able to go home tomorrow (saturday).

after that, we went for breakfast at cafe carolina, ran over to cary to pick up our pillows from dormia and stop by the petsmart for dog food, and then we spontaneously headed out to clayton to try and find a real estate agent who knew the area. we drove around for a while, trying to remember where we'd seen an office the other day, but we couldn't find it, so we pulled over at a century21 off hwy 70. we met a man there who seemed very nice but talks a LOT. after several hours looking at, and cursing at, the mls, we left with a handful of over 20 properties to peruse. i think we actually made it to 6 or 7 of them today.

we actually found this house while driving around randomly:
it was very cool, but when we called the realtor, she said it was under contract already. oh well, plenty of fish in the sea.

the first one we found off the mls list was in an older looking neighborhood in clayton:
we actually liked this place a lot. the lot it was on was nice, secluded, partially wooded, and set back from the road. with a little landscaping help, i think it could be a very nice place. we didn't go inside though since we were just looking ourselves and it was the first place we stopped. i think we'd like to see inside before ruling it out.

the next two houses were actually both along the same road in clayton, but we weren't crazy about either of them:


this last one is our favorite so far:
this picture's not great because the tree blocks most of the house, but i think it must have been taken from another season or year because it wasn't as much in the way today. we like the house because of the wrap-around porch and multiple stories. it's also on a really cool piece of land with woods, and pond frontage, and it's set back from the road, surrounded by other nice houses and woods, but best of all...

this is the front/side (depending on how you look at it) yard:
we're far from putting an offer on anything, but it is exciting to be looking while the market is on our side.