October

Well, I'm back on.  Where have I been?  Three things.

1)  We have been busy emptying the two storage units.  The smaller one we emptied first and were out as of the end of September.  The bigger one is nearly empty.  "Nearly" meaning that we could get it cleaned out in a day if we had the floor space in the garage.  All of the heavy furniture is in the house, thanks to a friend with a pickup with a liftgate.  What a great thing!  The unpacking continues......

 2)  The government shutdown has changed our schedule.  In September we worked Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, which gave us four days to do other chores.  However we didn't get possession of the house until the middle of the month.   The first thing we did, while the house was empty, was paint.  I painted the laundry room, our bedroom, and the third bedroom (the den).  I am working on the guest bedroom right now as well, with more painting to come.  It's not my favorite activity, but the results are worth it.  New paint makes it our place.  Colors?  sunflower, beige, beige, yellow, in that order.  I'm using Craigslist to get rid of the boxes.

3)  We lost our long time best friend last week.  We had known Mac since 1980 when we lived in Roseburg.  He had been in increasingly poor health, but had gone to the doctor with chest pains on Monday and died in Veterans Hospital the following Tuesday.  The last straw was Luekemia.  Services were last Saturday.
Good Bye, Mac.  You will be missed.