I'm not really a big fan of washing my dogs, I'd rather take them somewhere and let people bath and brush them, I'll gladly pay the price. 

But, when I walked into this bedroom last night at 1:30 am, the smell was revolting.  It just assailed my nostrils and I decided today was going to be wash day for both of them.  

It's a chore.  It took almost an entire bottle of dog shampoo with conditioner and quite a bit of time to scrub them both down. Aspyn was loaded with excess hair, it just came off in globs.  Shedding time as it is, summer is coming and she is going to get rid of that stuff.  Well, between washing her and after she dried, pulling it out and then brushing it down, she's looking much better.  

And smelling a thousand percent better.

Addler is much easier. Short haired Great Dane, hates the baths but just stands there and takes it.  

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Friday, early morning.  

I saw a new listing come up, informed the realtor I would be looking at it when I get back - going to Brownsville today, leaving the house pretty quick here actually.

She grabbed her whole family, got into their car and drove over there and took two videos of this place.  It looks like a nice property, but even with a video it's kind of hard for me to try and place a bid on something that I haven't actually visited and experienced myself.  

The issue? If this property is as good as it looks, it probably won't last very long, especially at the price.  There is water and electric and perhaps even sewer nearby. The only real issue I might have with it is it isn't exactly close to any major highway.  Probably 4 or 5 miles off of 59 and another 4 miles added to that to get up to 20.  

I looked at a satellite of it and it appears there is also a pond on the property, a huge plus if it's decent.  There's lot of ponds that - are not decent - as evidenced by a small property I looked at yesterday.  Nasty, green, full of algae, it wasn't exactly pretty.  It is right off of 59 a bit south.  I was thinking of putting some mobiles on it or 10 or so rv pads.  But I would have to have electric run from across 59, water is hundreds of feet up the road and septic installed.  And of course the obligatory clearing of the entire lot - it's just filled with thick underbrush and those nasty thorn bushes.  I don't know that names of that particular plant, but this region is full of that garbage along with thorn vines.  Oh and the noise. 59 is a major truck route, this property is right next to the highway and there is constant, loud highway noise.

The odd thing? It is obvious that people don't appear to care about highway noise considering the large amounts of homes you see all over the place positioned right next to busy interstates and state highways. 

Well, I'll think about it today.  If it weren't dark I'd go look at it before going to work.  It's tempting to pull the trigger on it, I'll say that. It isn't that far out of the way, not like some other properties I've looked at. It's 20 minutes or so from my house.  

Anyway, off to work.

G'day.