Moving West

This is old news to most of you, but in case I missed anybody, we are buying a house!   We haven’t actually set foot in it yet, but we are not entirely insane.   We watched lots of videos and pictures, and have had detailed inspections and appraisals done.  All looks good, so we hope to close on it the end of the month.

Believe it or not, this is technically a 1 bedroom house:

The 2nd room, in the basement, doesn’t have a window, so legally is not a bedroom.   But after we move in, everyone needs to visit us anyway.   We promise not to have any fires where a window would be required. 

The movers come on Tuesday, so we have been cleaning, packing, and filtering things to the Salvation Army.   We are bringing all of our pets:

We attended a nice ‘goodbye Helen’ party last night, and another one Monday.     A couple of residents dressed Helen in a Sari at the annual Neurology dept holiday party:

We weren’t sure it was appropriate to go, but we are glad we did, as they put Helen’s name on the cake and the Chair gave a nice best wishes toast to Helen.

Zach has been having fun with lots of Minnesota snow this winter:

In addition to shoveling the roof, he shoveled a maze for the dogs to have fun with:

Nick and the Skritter boys are off to work in warmer weather from somewhere in Central America for the next few months.   They had an eating contest, who could eat the most home baked muffins.   Nick won at 36!

Helen and I have food adventures also.  Actually more Helen than me.  Some of it scares me a bit.   This for example, is called “Blood Sausage":

We discovered that if you fry Blood Sausage it turns into Blood Mush:

And this is an army of some sort of albino asparagus:

I’ll leave with my first pretty girl picture of the year:

Bruce