a pictorial diary of experiences
I’m in Chicago supervising the packing and moving of our remaining items. You see, when we moved back in late January, we left the condo sort of staged (all of our furniture, pictures on the wall, nice sampling of tsotchke, etc.). The packers came today, and though every cabinet, closet, and drawer was empty it still took four hours and 37 boxes to wrap all the random pictures and knick...
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If ya hadn’t guessed, we are CRAZY busy lately. Aside from the seemingly never-ending move, we both working a ton, and it seems like I’ve been gone the entire month of August. I didn’t look up from my laptop yesterday to notice a gorgeous sunrise over the treetops yesterday though (and then of course it was time to pack and head out again…).
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1) After seven months we FINALLY got an offer on our Chicago condo !!! Woo freaking hoo !!! We’re scheduled to close in about a month. Will miss the view for sure… 2) We made an offer on a new house ! It’s a three bedroom Victorian in the Heights, has a very open floorplan with hardwoods throughout, and most importantly, it has a pool ! So lots of chaos in the next six weeks...
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For Andy’s birthday we headed to Holbox, Mexico – a very tiny island about two hours North of Cancun. No cars, few Americans, and an unusually high population of whale sharks this time of year (and Italian restaurants, but I’ll save that for the trip report). Whale sharks can grow to be up to 40 feet long and have very wide mouths that they use to filter mostly algae and...
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Greetings from Healdsburg. Our first day began with breakfast at the Omelette Express in Santa Rosa. After gorging on what must have been a six egg omelette (mine with bacon, tomato, avocado, and jack cheese, Andy’s with sausage and zucchini) we went for a bit of a drive through the countryside. We took the “Bohemian Highway” through Occidental and wound up in Bodega Bay (where...
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While I was distracted with a patient dragonfly, Andy was getting entirely too close to some pretty pollinated bees. (click for larger...
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