The dust settles...

It's been a whirlwind couple of weeks.

The house is finished! We finished touch up painting on Thursday afternoon, and drove to the Big City that night. Papa took extensive video and photographs, if you're interested. Too many to post here.

The house has sold! More accurately, it is 'pending'. In our little town, real estate transactions take an AVERAGE of sixty days to go from offer to closing. That said, we are still delighted that our little house in the big woods had an accepted offer within two weeks of being on the market.

We have moved! Really, we are still moving....staying at Granny and Grandaddy's for a few days, housesitting for friends for a month, trying to decide where to rent/buy/live while waiting for our little house to close, getting our Costco membership, reconnecting with old friends. Squirt Boy and Gus-gus have played at a couple of different parks and are enjoying some lovely time outside with Granny's new black lab puppy. Fuzzy Butt is learning to love the little guy, too.

Papa started his new job yesterday! He likes it so far. What's not to love? Hiking in the Chugach mountains, riding helicopters across Kachemak Bay, tootling around in a boat in Prince William Sound...sounds fun, no? And it's not a dream vacation in Alaska, but Papa's every day job now, along with schlepping unknown pounds of equipment up and down mountains to install, repair and maintain weather stations all around the state. A bear ripped open the one he repaired today. Hence, the need for repairs. Did I mention his cubicle overlooks Cook Inlet, with a stunning view of Mt. Susitna and Denali (Mt. McKinley, for you non-Alaskans), when the weather is right? We are super excited for him.

All that said, it was hard for me to leave Delta - our friends, our house, the Drive In. I very much enjoyed the slower pace of life there, and miss it tremendously.

We ran into someone you may know at our last supper at the Drive In.

And finally, this might be the REAL reason we left Delta, after all.

Please come see us in the Big City anytime.

MIA

We really haven't fallen off the planet. Just into the craziness that is moving and packing and organizing and saying, "Wow! I didn't realize we'd brought so much stuff!" Of course, Squirt Boy's arrival doubled or maybe tripled the volume of stuff we already had.

I really DON'T like moving, but have had wonderful help from friends and family, and am feeling pretty good about getting all of our debris out of our rental and over to the glamorous storage that is our shed and blue and black tarps. The house isn't quite ready to move in yet....but will be in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, we will reside in the glorious mansion that is Granny and Grandaddy's tent trailer along with our giant Kelty tent. We're doing this Alaskan style! I'm so thankful that it's summer still, for a few more weeks, at least.

Stay tuned for pictures of Fuzzy Butt with her namesake, fun videos of our time last week with Uncle Lee, Auntie Paula and the Cousins, and perhaps even a photo of Auntie Jessica's gift. (Yes, I have finished it, and it's quite pretty. Good thing it's done, too. She's coming to visit tomorrow.)

Still knitting on my felted clogs. One more sole to knit and attach, and then the bumper, seaming, and ready for felting. I'm playing with the idea of needle felting fun designs on them. Any suggestions?