Feeling better. Had the second virus in three weeks. Both felt like coming down with the flu that never arrived, but took all the stuffing out of us. The second was worse than the first.

We got rain off and on for several hours last night and this morning. We were on the verge of drought so it helped.

The rain also dropped the temps. It only got up to 67 until after 2:30 when the sun came out. It managed to get to the mid-70s before sundown. I can't believe that barely over a week ago, the heat index was around 110. This feels glorious!

Our grandson and his wife found a house they loved and called us so excited. They were ready to put a contract on it and pay their way out of their rental agreement. It really was an adorable house, had a fenced-in pool away from the house, a fenced-in play area for the toddler, and was in their price range. I looked it up on the safety app and found out that it was in a very unsafe area, more so than the area where they are renting, which they already want to get away from because of the moderate crime. I really didn't want to tell them and be the one who burst their bubble, but they would have wanted to move shortly after moving in. The next morning, they were on the way to view it after he finished a job at work the next morning, when their agent called and said he had just gotten there, and another agent was getting a contract signed on it right then. I hate that they got so disappointed, but feel so relieved that they didn't get that problem in their lives. I know how they feel because we got the perfect house ripped away from us the same way, and I later learned to use the app to find safe neighborhoods and found that crime was moving into the area where the house was we wanted too. Glad we were both saved from ourselves.

A real estate friend who is also on the city council called us yesterday to say that there is a major company opening here at first. They are shooting for the first of November. She told us that if we could be ready to sell our house by then, she would have a good chance of selling it. My husband talked to a neighbor the same day, and he said he had an uncle who had his eye on it, and if we sell to let him know before it is listed. He went to pay insurance and told them that he wanted month by month because he wants to sell by the end of the year. She told him that she and her husband are looking for a house about the size of ours in November so let her know before we list it. Three things in a row, so I guess we need to be ready to be out by the end of October if we have to rent pods and pack up what we want to take with us, and sell/give away/throw away the rest. It seems ambitious to me, especially since we haven't found a new house yet, but houses the size of ours are hard to sell because not everybody wants them this size. At least I have a timeline to work toward so maybe I will quit procrastinating, going through things, and deciding what to keep and what not to, since we will definitely have at least half the space or less, depending on what we find.