We're leaving this house-sit tomorrow
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (345136)
Rockingham, Australia
January 11, 2023 6:22pm CST
Tomorrow, we leave here for the next house-sit. We need to start collecting our bits and pieces from the rooms we’ve been using. We always seem to have a lot of things that need power and accessing enough power points means that gadgets are plugged in wherever we can find a spare plug. Nowadays, we include a four- or six-pin plug which makes life easier.
The photo shows the hallway of our house-sit. I like the red glass at the sides of the door. I can’t really recall a farmhouse where people come in the front door. There always seems to be another side or back door which is more commonly used.
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@JudyEv (345136)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 23
There is a bit more to do at the next. Mostly checking on watering and hand-watering pot-plants. There are more pets too, mostly birds, but they mostly have self-feeders and waterers. We'll need to make sure nothing runs out of water as it's so hot here now.
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@marguicha (224771)
• Chile
12 Jan 23
A beautiful house and a beautiful picture. I´m very interested in your house sitting job.
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@JudyEv (345136)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 23
@marguicha It is a bit. Always interesting and we're also well away from covid.
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@DaddyEvil (140406)
• United States
12 Jan 23
That's the way it was here when I was a kid. We always went to the back or side door when visiting anyone. Only strangers knocked on the front door.
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@DaddyEvil (140406)
• United States
12 Jan 23
@JudyEv 
Our front door was at the front of the house from the street (really a dirt road). And the back door was at the end of the driveway beside the house.
Our front door was at the front of the house from the street (really a dirt road). And the back door was at the end of the driveway beside the house.2 people like this
@thislittlepennyearns (63442)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Jan 23
I like that stained glass, or colored glass. And that doorway is beautiful.
How far away is the next house sit?
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@JudyEv (345136)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jan 23
@thislittlepennyearns Loam is apparently sand, silt and a small amount of clay. The other place had much more clay in the soil.
@thislittlepennyearns (63442)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
12 Jan 23
@JudyEv loamy? I will have to look that term up
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@BarBaraPrz (48357)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
12 Jan 23
My teenage home had deep red sidelights at the interior door (the vestibule just had clear glass windows). The hall was about that wide, or maybe a bit wider as there was a chiffarobe in it.
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@BarBaraPrz (48357)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
12 Jan 23
@Fleura Well, some people spell it chifferobe...
It's a specific style of clothes wardrobe.
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@wolfgirl569 (110870)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Jan 23
That is pretty. We use the garage door mostly. And the way the front yard is fenced you can't get to the front door
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@wolfgirl569 (110870)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Jan 23
@JudyEv With where our family room is we can't hear a knock at the front door anyways. Now that we put the doorbell on the garage door most figure out to go to that door easy
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@Beestring (14868)
• Hong Kong
12 Jan 23
That's a beautiful house. Enjoy your next house-sit.
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@Beestring (14868)
• Hong Kong
12 Jan 23
@JudyEv Looking forward to seeing your photos.
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@FourWalls (70970)
• United States
12 Jan 23
Ooh, that’s nice. I had forgotten all about houses with long entry halls like that until I went to Helen Keller’s birthplace in Alabama. That house has one of those. Don’t know that I’d want to clean it but it’s absolutely beautiful!
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@FourWalls (70970)
• United States
13 Jan 23
@JudyEv — at the Keller house they had something in the hall called a “fainting couch,” which was where people sat when overcome with heat. With the doors opened at both ends of the house that would be the ideal place for cross-ventilation.
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@JudyEv (345136)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Jan 23
@FourWalls Many of the outback stations have this type of breezeway but even wider and more open.
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@LindaOHio (183822)
• United States
12 Jan 23
That looks like a lovely home. I like the glass around the door.
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