February and our Poinsetta has yet to drop a leaf!!!!This past week has been a mix of hectic days where we have juggled our volunteer responsibilities at the SPCA and ETRA with running the house, exercising the dog and responding to the never-ending emails contrasted with the quiet, relaxed watching the deer, seals, birdlife and pottering in the garden kind of days. (Yes, it is spring-like here thanks to the El Nino effect!). The never-ending emails are not a problem - especially when most are enquiries asking if we are available to house and or pet sit - these enquiries are all good, however, as we are now committed to a project in France we can only offer to retain contact details and hope to be of service in the future. This is good and bad. Good for us because we can relax a little, bad for us because we want to help everyone out and hate to say no! We have been overwhelmed at the level of response and encouraged too - having decided to start charging for our services (out of necessity rather than greed!), we wanted to test the water in 2010 to see how things would pan out. Clearly, they are panning out very well and the wife and I once again feel privileged to know that we can (albeit in the future), offer a service so much in demand!
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