North Carolina On Our Mind

And here's Joan with her friend, Jesus.

Alaskan Vista

Mare, Mom, and Dad, close to Mt. McKinley (well, 500 mi. away).

I see in the previous post I mentioned the peacefulness of the new house. And it is much quieter here with much less traffic noise. I hear the wind rustling the leaves of our "forest" and because we are the only house at the end of a cul-de-sac there's not much traffic. We practically have everything out of the old house but a garage full of stuff here still to sort and put away. Most of the things we need for living though are away and the rest will need deciding about whether to keep or not. That work will wait until we return from our trips.

I put together Ikea bookshelves the last two days and now Bruce can get his office in order. I must say that it looks very nice.

The old house will have an open house while we're gone and hopefully will sell soon. It looks much more worn out empty so if we have no interest while we're gone I plan to spruce it up with paint. I need to get an electrician in soon because there's a live wire where we took out a basement wall heater that is dangerous.

I look forward to days of working in my studio and having classes here. We had a great get together for Harmon and Teri and I greatly enjoyed using my new kitchen.

I'm sitting in the new house just enjoying the peacefulness of it. We had our washer and dryer delivered yesterday and I am doing some laundry so I brought a camp chair and am knitting while the cycles go on the laundry.

Dad got the internet going here so I'm just trying out the blogger site. Have a good day.

See the Greenery of our Backyard Meadow

Happy birthday, Bruce. 54 years ago, a few months before I was born, there was a cute little boy born in Akron, Ohio. Little did he know that our paths would meet and we would spend a wonderful life together and have a wonderful family. I am so thankful that God brought us together. Hope your day is fun and stress-free. See you soon for our celebration!

The Pictures Don't Do Them Justice

Still Praying

We have an offer on the house but we countered and they accepted with an addendum that we felt was too open-ended so we are still negotiating. Hopefully we can work it out or perhaps get another offer from someone else. We have another open house this Saturday.

I hope to post some new pictures. I'm waiting for the mantel to be put up on the fireplace. The rock part looks amazing and I love it. They have to stain the mantel but that shouldn't take long.

The builder thinks we may get in September 15. I told him to hurry up, the sooner the better because of our offer. He knows we're still negotiating but the buyers would like to move Oct. 1 so if we close on the new house by Sept. 15 we will have time to move before then. Also, we have plans to travel the end of September so we NEED to get moved in before that!!!

Pseudo went to the vet today. We haven't heard anything so that means no problems with the surgery. We can get him tomorrow after 1 PM. Last night he went to sleep on my lap with much purring. He is so sweet.

Closer to Home

The Next Stages

Doors-arama

They are painting our doors and getting stuff ready. Here are some monotonous photos of the same.

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Not much change in the way the house looks because they are painting trim so no new pictures yet. I hear that carpeting is next. The garage door openers were installed yesterday.

I spent most of the day on the road. Mike and I decided to go to Toledo to check out a lighting store and explore getting new mobile phones. The lighting store was very expensive and we found we needed Bruce to get new phones because he is the account holder. On the way home we discovered a new verizon store at Levis Commons so much more convenient to bring Bruce back that evening and phone shop. We ended up with both Mike and I getting new phones because my phone was free and Mike's was discounted. We ate dinner at Max and Erma's and I bought a light fixture and desk at Bombay.

I also made another trip to pick up a student at the Toledo airport. He is from Lebanon and it took him 50 hours to get here. His flight was routed all over the map to avoid the bombing going on over there. He said he was from northern Lebanon where there isn't bombing but couldn't leave from Beirut as originally planned. I have another trip to the airport today. I heard it was hard to get volunteers who could make airport pickups during the day so I'm getting to go.

I give my dyeing and quilting talk at the fair on Thursday. It's supposed to be record heat so pray for relief on that day. That building builds up the heat like a sauna.

On the Way to Landscapes, Kitchen and Patio

"Stare-way" to Heaven