I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few days, but apparently it made national news.
So, since I am the official Chicago coyote monitor, here is a story about one who decided to stroll into a Quiznos in the Loop. You can watch the video on that site, but it was like the craziest thing! People were eating in there and it just runs in the front door and then ultimately settles into the juice cooler!
So as you can see, coyotes have completely taken over the city
So I’ve been really busy lately, and I haven’t had a chance to post about it yet, but our offer was accepted for the house!!! Perhaps we offered to little because they accepted all of our terms! But really we’re very happy because we offered $7,000 less than the asking price in addition to the $5,000 closing cost credit they were offering. Also, we got them to run a 220 volt line for our electric dryer and give us an $800 credit for using our washer and dryer rather than having them buy one. Since ours are pretty much brand new, we are very happy with that. Our realtor didn’t really want us to try to get both the credit and the lower price because he didn’t think they’d accept, but we sort of overrode him and look how it came out!
You can see some pictures of the place on your snapfish account.
One of the reasons we were so busy was that this weekend we went to a 1st birthday party followed immediately by a 50th birthday party! Opposite ends of the spectrum there.
On a completely unrelated note, as an addendum to my post about coyotes at our new place, here is an article about airplanes being unable to land at O’Hare due to coyotes on the runway!
So we were looking at condos on Saturday and I looked over and saw a coyote walking on the el tracks! I was like “Holy crap, there’s a coyote on the el tracks!” Sara didn’t believe me that it was a coyote and not just a stray dog until I pointed out the roller skates and giant Acme rocket strapped to the little feller’s back. No, in all seriousness, after a quick jaunt to Wikipedia to see a picture, she agreed that’s what we saw. We also found an interesting article about the wild coyote population in Chicago.
I gotta say, you just don’t expect to see something like that in Chicago, but it’s still not as weird as the time I saw a wild boar in Philadelphia.
Shane Halbach 