Happily married, mature animal lovers ready to care for your home and pets

About this sitter

We've been very happily married for 23 years. We are both 58, mature, respectful, quiet, and neat. We are emotionally stable and responsible with boatloads of common sense. We keep cool heads in challenging moments and emergencies. We are non-smokers, drug-free, Covid-vaccinated and boosted, and have our own reliable car.

Jerilyn owned an SAT/ACT prep business for 20 years (now retired), and Mathew works part-time from "home" as a graphic designer. Back in February 2021, we sold almost everything, packed what was left in the car, sold our house, and have been traveling ever since. For the first year, we were camping and staying with friends & in airbnbs and hotels. But in May 2022, we discovered housesitting. It was an instant love affair, and we have been full-time ever since. We are thoroughly enjoying the nomadic lifestyle, love seeing the myriad ways people live, and have had a fantastic time connecting with new people and animals.

We love hiking and exploring natural places together. We also love swimming in warm waters, art and museums, canoeing and kayaking, and playing and cuddling with kitties and pups. . We are homebodies, even though we live a nomadic life. We don't party or go out at night. Jerilyn loves reading, gardening, singing, and playing Scrabble, and Mathew loves creating ambient music on his laptop and headphones. He's also great at wrangling tangled cables.

Why they want to house sit

There's a particular beauty in the housesitting lifestyle, one that relies upon trust in the essential goodness of one another, and that is a lovely premise on which to live a life. When you respect and appreciate another person's home and pets, there is a generosity in the way you approach housesitting. Being generous is one of life's great joys, and housesitting allows us to express that value in a unique way.

Their experience

We started housesitting from online sites in May 2022, but we've cared for friends' plants and animals and have been excellent guests at dozens of airbnbs for years. We are comfortable administering medication to compliant pets via pill pocket, mixing into food, or oral syringe

We are members of multiple house sitting platforms, so we created our own personal website so homeowners can get to know us a bit better. Here's a link.

https://sites.google.com/view/jerilyn-mathew/home


We also owned a rental for 16 years and understand the importance of others caring for your home - and how awful it is when they don't.

What can they bring to the assignment

Cats and dogs just seem to like us. It might be the way we approach them with an open heart or the way we try to communicate with them on their terms.

We subscribe to the "leave it as you found it (or better)" credo. We both love order and cleanliness, and not having a place of our own anymore, we appreciate "home" (no matter whose it is) and treat it like it is ours.

We also have a side business called Neat Freaks. Being neat freaks ourselves (it helps if everything you own can fit into a Subaru Outback!), we love to help people free themselves both physically and mentally from their clutter. If you know anyone who could use this sort of support, check out our website:

https://sites.google.com/view/neat-freaks/home