Stay-At-Home

Since I've been such a stay-at-home dog lately, I thought I'd show you what this "home" is like.  I'm quite used to it now, including the miniature elevator.













 I'm just thankful I don't have to walk up and down the stairs anymore.  The furniture looks like early flea-market, as does the multitude of unmatched pottery, chipped dishes, and unidentifiable cooking tools.  Mom had to buy a few things such as a water heater for coffee, a French press, and several other items that were either missing or too corroded to use.  The kitchen and living room are all one room with cupboard doors hiding everything including the fridge, dishwasher, micro-wave and ironing board.  One bedroom (mine) has a single bed in it, which means Mom and I are a little crowded, but we've adjusted.  The other one has a daybed in it.  The agency said there were places for three adults to sleep, but the third "bed" is the one you see in the picture - just right for me, but a full-sized person?  So the agency provided an airbed and the third person sleeps on it in the kitchen/living room.

The rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows that let in a lot of light and face the courtyard which keeps out the street noise.  However, we do have neighbors who have very loud parties about once a week, and so far they haven't invited us.  We have to close the windows on those nights.  Something else that makes noise around here is the bottle recycler.  Not only the one in our courtyard used by the residents, but we are between a restaurant and two caterers who dispose of their empties all at once in a nerve-shattering crash.

There's a little dog who lives upstairs who sometimes comes down and pees on our welcome mat.  It's a Yorkie name Yerkie.  We don't like her much.

The plumbing here isn't bad, except the room the toilet is in has a little sewage smell from ancient pipes, but with the instant hot water heaters they have here, there's always enough hot water which means I never have an excuse for not taking a bath, which seem to be quite frequent.


The "apres-bain" ring around the tub.

Must have my bunny for the drying process.

Clean, beautiful Patchou!