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youngest brother is moving
Feb. 20th, 2024 09:01 pmYesterday my youngest brother left California to move back to our home state (which is where I live now also - about 30 mins drive from our hometown). Back in January, while home for the holidays, he purchased a house up in the mountains a couple hours away from me. I'll take the 2 hour drive, over the 50 hour drive. He had lived out in California for maybe 8 years, but when my dad had Alzheimer's several years ago, he started talking about moving back out here to be close to family. He will keep his job in CA and work remotely, paying the much cheaper cost of living that is here. He'll be getting to this area in about 11 days. I am looking forward to it.
My husband and I are talking about going up to visit him at his new place once he gets settled in. We're going to give him our barely-used electric lawn mower, as he's got a nice small lawn at his new place. I'll also give him some local coffee and a vintage mug from this diner he used to like when we were kids. He's a big coffee lover like me. When he was home for December/January, I actually gave/lent him my Moka pot, because he was growing frustrated at the mediocre (awfulness?) of our mom's Keurig. I am far from a coffee snob, but I can't do Keurig either. Half for the quality, half for the utter waste of single-use plastics.
When we go to visit my brother, I want to bring our dog. It would be the longest car ride he's been on with us since the day we adopted him. I want to get him accustomed to longer rides, as I would love to take road trips with him, and have him relax a bit. I used to take him to work fairly regularly (a 12-15 minute ride, which I have paused for reasons unrelated to him), and he just whines the whole ride. Same when the weather is nice and I take him to various parks. I think he's just excited or overstimulated by seeing everything around us as we drive. We live on a fairly quiet, semi-rural property, so he doesn't get tons of interactions outside of beings in our household. Anyway... I'd like to give it a shot. I wonder if there's something I could give him to calm him.
My husband and I are talking about going up to visit him at his new place once he gets settled in. We're going to give him our barely-used electric lawn mower, as he's got a nice small lawn at his new place. I'll also give him some local coffee and a vintage mug from this diner he used to like when we were kids. He's a big coffee lover like me. When he was home for December/January, I actually gave/lent him my Moka pot, because he was growing frustrated at the mediocre (awfulness?) of our mom's Keurig. I am far from a coffee snob, but I can't do Keurig either. Half for the quality, half for the utter waste of single-use plastics.
When we go to visit my brother, I want to bring our dog. It would be the longest car ride he's been on with us since the day we adopted him. I want to get him accustomed to longer rides, as I would love to take road trips with him, and have him relax a bit. I used to take him to work fairly regularly (a 12-15 minute ride, which I have paused for reasons unrelated to him), and he just whines the whole ride. Same when the weather is nice and I take him to various parks. I think he's just excited or overstimulated by seeing everything around us as we drive. We live on a fairly quiet, semi-rural property, so he doesn't get tons of interactions outside of beings in our household. Anyway... I'd like to give it a shot. I wonder if there's something I could give him to calm him.
