An Interesting Day

It was an unbelievably gorgeous day today: freezing cold but sunny and bright. I was thankful that there was not a winter storm warning in effect as I had to travel a fair bit to show a farm today to a couple who was travelling 3.5 hours one way to view it.

I knew there were plenty of outbuildings/barns etc including a turkey coop (I have never seen one of these) and that there would be cows and horses. 'The driveway was more than 2 miles long and when I finally got to the house it was so disappointing; it was more of a tear-down than anything else. The sellers must have invested in the animals quarters more so than their own.

The funny part was that a small brown dog who looked part cocker spaniel and part terrier, just kept underfoot, and wouldn't leave us alone. He was old and sad looking. When we opened the door to the house, the dog just entered with us and went straight to a big bowl of water and had a few laps and then proceeded to this oversized dog bed in front of the wood stove, curled up into a tiny ball and went to sleep.

As we were getting ready to leave, it was quite obvious that this dog had no intention of leaving to go back out into the cold. Fine - I didn't blame him, I didn't want to go back outside either! I left him alone figuring he shouldn't have been left out in the cold by himself in the first place. (well below zero, maybe -18)

When I arrived home, the listing agent called looking for feedback on the home, which I provided. I then asked him to pass on my apology to the Sellers for not putting the wee dog back outside and he asks sounding surprised, "The Rottweiler?" I laughed and said "no, the wee brown one." He says, "What brown one?", sounding very confused. He then said they didn't have a little dog, only the Rottweiler!

Well, they have one now and he seemed quite content to stay!!! And how was your day?