Library Notes
January 8, 2005
By Pansy Hundley, Librarian.
I am here to fill in my story, to tell you about the house that Suzie bought, just as I told you I would last week.
She and I and, of course, Cheyenne, spent Thanksgiving holidays, looking at houses and trying to find houses on "the list".
Suzie, being the computer bug that she is, had already been on that marvelous machine. Almost as soon as she made up her mind to move, she started "calling" up houses on her computer, getting descriptions and pictures and prices.
So, when she arrived nearly a week before Thanksgiving, her list and her pictures were in hand. After turkey and dressing at my sister’s house on Thanksgiving Day, it was house-hunting/looking for the rest of the week-end. We scoured McKinney, which is where Suzie decided she wanted to settle herself.
We did not look at fancy, new houses. Suz likes the older houses that have their own personality. And we looked at a bunch of them. Some she considered and some had no enticement for her at all. The field narrowed and narrowed and then we hit on one of great interest.
She contacted the real estate lady, who happens to live in Princeton and she met us at the house.
That house looked better and better. It has a huge back yard, ideal for Shadow, the guard dog, and for Cheyenne to ride his "go-cart" as he calls it. It is really one of those big cars you drive that is battery operated. It was handed down from someone else and he things it ‘s great. That back yard has a large storage building, which is definitely a plus.
Another big plus is a marvelous, large, deck the owner had built on the back. It is a two-level one, just begging for you to sit out there on summer evenings and enjoy the outdoors.
The house is just the right size for Suzanne and Chey. Not nearly as big as their other house, but big enough for them.
So, that house was chosen and an offer was made. With the usual going back and forth, all the wheeling and dealing that goes into buying a house from the owners, everything was finally settled. Inspections were made, mortgage okayed and by wearing out the cell phones of two real estate ladies and Suzanne, the papers were all ready for final preparation.
And then I told you how the mistake was made in the preparation of the papers and final signing had to be put off for several days.
On the following Monday, the deed was finally done and Suzanne got her house key late in the afternoon. She diplomatically reminded them of her $250.00 for week-end use of the U-Haul. They had forgotten it, but she came out of there with check in hand.
Then the fun began, the fun of getting all that stuff off that truck that we had just put on it a few days before. We had some strong-armed men for the large appliances. With others toting boxes, that truck finally was entirely empty. It looked wonderful.
However, Suzie and I, helpers having gone home, took ourselves and our truck, while we still had it, and emptied her storage unit that we had filled up previously. We took that truck back to her new house, parked it out front and got in bed about 2:00 AM.
The next day, Sunday, after church and a quick lunch, Suz and I got the truck again unloaded and most of it in her storage shed out back.
I swept that empty – once again – truck out nicely and we presented it back to U-Haul that afternoon. Suzie said it almost felt like a member of the family by then.
So, with boxes setting everywhere, so that one could hardly move through the new house, we shall leave it for the time being and delve into a book. We shall delve into Catherine Coulter’s new one, another book in the FBI series, with Savich and Sherlock. This one is entitled "Blow Out" and here is their latest adventure.
"A long week-end in the Poconos is cut short when Sherlock and Savich are helicoptered back to Washington to lead the investigation into the brutal murder of a Supreme Court Justice.
Savich allows Callie Markham, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, to partner with local Metro Police liaison Ben Raven, since she’s got the inside track. She’s the stepdaughter of the murdered justice. Despite Detective Raven’s unwillingness to have a civilian along, Callie Markham ends up riding shotgun to help look for her stepfather’s murderer.
Within the next twenty-four hours, there’s another murder with the same M.O.
Savich learns he must also solve a thirty-year-old crime after a psychic encounter with the murder victim. Samantha Barrister who suddenly appears in front of his car and hysterically pleads for his help. Savich and Sherlock discover that at the time of her death, Samantha had a six-year-old son who disappeared as a teenager. Savich is convinced the missing boy is the key."