davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

I saw the best "Hawai'i hurricane preparation" photo -- a family's-worth of slippas taped down on a lanai 


Maybe you should join Trusted Housesitters!

Dat so "da kine!" 

D'you think anyone on that site would want to house sit a couple of cats for three weeks, or six weeks, or nine weeks in mid-winter? I've been looking at "discount cruises" online, and it turns out that one of my "life goals," an around the world cruise, might be more affordable than I ex-pected. Well... not exactly "affordable," but "less hideously ex-pensive."

The house-sitting website is a little vague. I gather that generally sitters are not paid, per se. Are they provided a meals allowance? Are they usually provided a car to use? Is anyone willing to "pet sit" in a kinda dumpy lower-middle-class place, or do the McMansion owners keep 'em busy? Plus, I'm a good four-hour drive away from the nearest airport. I mean, sure, I could pick up the sitter, but then I'd need the sitter to drive me back to the airport, then drive home, and then... yeah, nothing is easy when one lives in the middle of nowhere; as you well understand

One example of a "sitter" that I read said she only accepts pet-sits that are beachfront in tropical locations. If I were still in Hawaii that'd be swell, but I'm not in Hawaii. And if I lived "beachfront in a tropical location" I would be less inclined to want to go anywhere.

Whatever... just random nattering... at the moment.

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26 August - A Doll A Day 2024:

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Janie is not entirely happy about being pulled away from full-size projects to work on a dollhouse.

Although I suspect that she might find the precision aspects of the project interesting, and the creative make-it-up-on-the-fly aspects stimulating.