be vewwy quiet, we're hunting wabbits

Or houses. Saw a number of places this weekend, finding a lot more we DON'T like than ones we do. I always forget this part of house hunting, going to see a lot of houses, seeing a lot you don't like to find the one you love. Today, we saw a condo and drove by a couple of houses. The houses were total white trash, the condo was in a great part of Lake Oswego, but it felt like our Atherton apartment, from when we first moved out here.

We drove by another condo we are supposed to look at Tuesday, but it was too much condo/apartment setting. We looked at a really cute house, in a great neighborhood. The yard isn't fenced, so we would need an invisible fence for Myra, and the kitchen is a bit small. We looked in all the windows, but we will need to walk around inside.

We found a perfect house on Saturday, brand new, no one has ever lived in it, new stainless steel appliances, close to work, beautiful house. But she wanted a lot more money up front than we can come up with on such short notice, and it didn't have a washer and dryer, which means we would have to buy one. It was also a huge house and even though we are planning to get new furniture, it would feel very empty, and probably a little too big for us.

Today was more frustrating, just because we saw mostly places we would never live. But we still have some time to find a great house.