Tag: pet sitting
At the end of March, we completed the last month of our 3-month house-sit for the lovely dog Penny in Crozet, Virginia. Our last days were spent cleaning, putting everything back where it belonged, packing, and getting the van, Periplo,…
The snow is finally gone. You still see it off the highway and piled high in the parking lot at Home Depot. But it is no longer a concern for us. Penny, our house-sitting charge, can run in the fields…
On January 1st, we moved to a new house sit in Crozet, Virginia, a little over a couple of hours away from where we were in Dumfries, Virginia. It was nice to have a short trip after our long drive…
December found us in Beaufort, SC, taking care of an 83 lb. hound named Sammy. We try to divide up our house-sitting chores. In Chapel Hill, I was mostly in charge of the dog, Tori, taking her on long walks…
We have been house-sitting for just over 3 months straight. It has been a mixture of good, useful, and sometimes not-so-ideal experiences. Not all the houses we have stayed in are as clean as I’d like. Occasionally, they are dark,…
We began the month in Hillsborough in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. There, we were house-sitting with a dog named Rakwa. We spent a lot of time working on the van, but also managed to get out a…
In September, we began a series of back-to-back house sits that will last until April 1, 2026. As with most things we do, we fell into this string of sits before we even had a plan. The first sit came…
The months of March, April, and May were all spent house-sitting in Colorado. We took care of 14 different pets in 7 different households which we lined up with our Trusted House Sitters subscription*. Our main focus, besides taking care…
On August 14 of last year, Greg’s father, Perry, had a stroke. We were in Cabbagetown (Atlanta) at the time house sitting for friends. After Greg got the call, we made a quick trip to the grocery store, and then…
In July we finally landed at our first house sit of the summer in Cabbagetown. After a month of driving and visiting friends and family in June and visiting more friends and family during the first week of July, we…
