Shoo fly in the buttermilk...shoo fly shoo!!!

SO I paid my rent and gave my 30 days notice last night. As I handed it over I was a little scared..."what if we can't find something?" "we are SO busy as is what if we can't pack, yard sale, move...in time?" I was starting to get a little freaked out...okay okay I was almost in panic attack mode. But then I thought "God will provide, he ALWAYS does." SO then I decided to think not of what I have to do, or what I am uncertain about, and think of what I am certain about.

Dear house on the farm,
  Although I am happy I lived here to show Story a side of life I never knew....There are some things I will NEVER miss about you:

1.) The THOUSANDS of flies that sit on our car....and when we try to get in  we have to flail our arms trying to shoo them so we don't end up with thirty in our car as we are driving...which we do anyway and then we roll all windows down but it doesn't work 'cause then they stop flying and so we drive with the nuisance of flies....I will NOT miss that.

2.) Not having heat for 5 days in freezing weather because that is how long the landlord takes to fix anything and your stupid pilot light went out....

3.) besides the hoards of flies in the front yard (embarrassing to have a yard sale...) the hoards of flies AND MOSQUITOES in the back yard. So bad we can't walk in the backyard sometimes for 30 seconds without have ten bites...for sure chance of west Nile...I will NOT miss you.

4.) Chick downstairs that feels in necessary to vacuum every night at 11 pm....I will not miss worrying if my child will be waking up right after I barely got her to sleep.

5.) To the wasps that infested our house last summer for no apparent reason...you will not be able to keep my out of my home or dive bomb me in my sleep any longer.

6.) Horses who sometimes randomly come in our yard and tear it up so when I mow it is way too bumpy and the vibrations are horrible like using a jack hammer to cut your grass....sorry horses I won't miss you either.

7.) The dang gates (all four don't shut right and they all have a different trick) that people don't know how to shut tight and constantly let my dog out so he rolls in a pile of horse poop and comes home REEKING....won't miss that either.

8.) Besides the wasps IN the house the many that nest above all entrances as if they know....and then wait for you...I will not miss Story getting stung 3 times in 2 days.

9.) The cranky lady at the farm where our other two dogs are....I will not miss our dogs fighting because your dogs start in...and I will not miss you an AJ yelling at each other about how our dogs can be here and you don't think so....

10.) To the outrageous utilities I will much enjoy being gone and letting you suck money out of someone else's pocket. IE try the landlord....

11.) Oh big one! The cotton trees that line the side of the house...I counted 8 of you....you make my life miserable when your cotton flies in my eyes and up my nose, you make our air conditioner sad when you clog it up, and it really sucks to have to sweep it off every few hours and get more cotton in my face.

12.) To the jerk dog down the street who gets into our garage and steals whole bags of cat food and makes a HUGE mess dragging it out...spilling cans, dragging other stuff with it....you are lucky I am moving 'cause I am thins close >< to calling the pound on you!!!!

13.) to our bathtub that thinks is is funny to randomly turn on...whenever...3am....sometimes 16 times right in a row....very funny but you won't be able to play tricks on us anymore.

14.) as the list could go on forever I want to say one more...To our landlord telling us we can get out every time we mention something (heater, bees, mold) we think needs fixing: I will no longer live with bees because I am too afraid to talk to my landlord....I will not miss your attitude.

So even though there are a lot of uncertainties...there is much I am certain of....I won't miss this place as much as I thought I would...and hopefully I won't have to shoo millions of flies either :)

Thank you little house on a horse farm for letting us stay here for 3 years but now, it is time to part ways.
Kelly