... six strangers, seven to ten cats and two dogs who sort of stumbled into living in a house together and are in the process of finding out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.
The Real World: Three Rivers
okay, it isn't all that dramatic or as entirely unintentional as the above intro makes it sound, but this is the life kirstin and i have been living since january. well, almost. see, we decided to move in with our friends, jeff and bri, at the beginning of the year to attempt living in community. headcount: four people, one dog, seven cats.
a few months later, bri's sister, morgan, decided to move back the three rivers. about the same time, morgan's boyfriend, adam, lost his job and decided he might as well move down, too. during a house meeting, we (jeff, bri, kirstin and i) decided we would extend them the offer of living in the house free (room and board) for six weeks while both of them got on their feet (jobs, apartment, etc.). headcount: six people, one dog, seven cats.
during this time, bri, whose passion is animal rescue, brought a dog home from animal control who had been treated quite horribly by his owners. they kept him outside on a chain all the the time and they had never loosened his collar while he was growing, causing it to grow into his neck. apparently he jumped off of a deck and nearly hung himself on the chain; his owners had dropped him off at animal control to have him euthanized. when bri brought him home he had a huge gash in his neck, but was otherwise fine. initially, we were only going to foster him until we could find a good owner, but, after jeff jogged with him, we decided to keep him. headcount: six people, two dogs, seven cats.
several cats also visited us during the last six months, hence the range of seven to ten given above. one arrived after his owner died. we watch another cat when its humans are away. and a neighbor girl brought over a tiny kitten, knowing that bri would most likely be able to find a good home for it. and bri did.
and now we've also found a good home for adam. although it took a good deal longer than six weeks, adam, who grew up working with dairy cows, found a great job at a dairy farm that also provides him a house in which to live. he happened to call the farm out of an online phone directory the same day the farm's chief feeding guy quit.
having just watched magnolia, it is this humble narrator's opinion that all of this could not have been, as they say, "just one of those things."
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