liberiamom- Thanks for the offer! Luckily I own the home and that's the reason I was able to boot the dude relatively easily... his name is NOT on the mortgage!!! Actually one of the big reasons I wanted to buy a house while I was single was because of a previous bad breakup where my BF was the homeowner and I had no rights... and he thought that one of the rights I didn't have was to tell him he needed to get help for his drinking problem.

SlowLS- Don't worry about the goat cheese! I'm a tad lactose intolerant and the goats milk is better than most dairy. As for the dogs, I'm definitely not looking forward to the introductions between the Tess and her new little brother- she is VERY territorial, even to the point of scraping her pee marks and lifting a leg! But she'll just have to deal.