Larkspur

Kitchen looks great with the counters down. Now if only the sink had water it’d all be real.

Yesterday’s view of Forest Park, morning light bright and snow steaming… 

Don’t mind me, I’m just the neighbor who has a crush on your house.

There are some great ones in our neighborhood.

Dan played a lot of Tetris as a kid.  Now if only those skills translated into putting things away once they were in the house…  Current challenges include not enough bookshelves and three feet of total closet pole length in the entire house.  

Beckett’s been so adaptable through all of this.  Here he is new-house camping with Dan.  He’s been to his obedience class twice now, and there’s an emerging consensus that he’s the star of the class.  We’re very proud of him.  

Morning. Forest Park from our porch.

The new place in Springfield.  First floor is ours…  it’ll feel even more like ours when the truck arrives (Thursday) and the appliances (Friday) and the kitchen counters and sink (the end of next week).  

Dan, your dog is a cat.  And he found this place to wait for you while you bought breakfast somewhere in Syracuse.

After our little goodbye outing, Leon stepped into the insane chaos that was our half-packed house and stayed til 2am, helping me put a whole coat of paint on the front room and touch ups in the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.  It felt good to leave the place proudly sparkling.  I could have done it alone, but I’m pretty sure I’d have been up all night.  Our time in Ann Arbor begun with another Williams friend, Elaine, helping us paint that bedroom.  What a lovely book-end to our time here…  

This was the “Oh, honey, you can come with us.  We don’t even have to pack you in a box,” moment.

We made it shine before we packed it up.