Housesitting

I'm housesitting for some people this weekend. When they showed me around their house they mentioned various liquids that they were decanting. I looked up a definition for decant and I have a feeling what they meant to say was "we're letting random liquids sit in containers"; decant means to pour or to separate solids from liquids. I think, total, there are about 10 places where liquids are "decanting" around the house. Further, they have 60 commands that they use to say various things to their dogs. One command is used to tell the dog to walk in reverse around a tree if the leash gets tangled. The exact command is "Reverse Walk Around Tree". I am looking forward to saying this to one of the dogs this weekend and to then be confronted with a bewildered "What the hell did you just say" expression. They printed out a 5 page list of things to remember to do each day re the house. Each window in the house has a different time and method of closure. I'm not kidding, there are 15 different kinds of windows. They leave all of their drawers open in the bathroom because of a fear that closed drawers heat up and ruin medications. During the entire 3 hour explanation and hands on demonstration on how the house and dogs work, they offered me one wheat thin cracker. By one wheat thin, I mean, the woman motioned towards a wheat thin bag that had two wheat thins in it, and then after I took one, she ate the other.

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