Farmlet housesitting
Who was it who said, the more I know people the more I like animals? Good ol' Mark Twain! I feel the same way the older I get; animals, at least our domesticated animals, are so sweet and so genuine and reliable and people are so tricky and hard to figure. I am housesitting but really farmsitting as well or maybe it's just a farmlet because it's very small: there are two goats, two pigs, a bunch of chickens and a rooster, two cats who are indoors only and a small deaf senior Pomeranian dog. The house is enormous (to me) and really nice, like something out of House Beautiful magazine. The nicest thing is that I didn't have an in-person tour; we did a tour by Skype which is actually very difficult for one person to manage, feeding all these animals and holding a camera or phone but at least I didn't have to drive out here (although it's not very far away from my house). Why it's nice is that we have had no contact personally, no masks or questions about cont...