Welcome to Fall Travel Season

OK, well technically it is over but "welcome to Fall Travel Season" as my life sorta takes a completely different turn and I live off a 23-page itinerary of my own making, heading off to exotic locations like Culver City and Beaverton...and Honolulu and Santa Barbara, but don't remind The Farmer of those locales. Just remind tell him I'm in Culver City and Beaverton.

But this is my bad excuse for not posting since August 23rd. Yes, August 23rd. Pitiful.

It's been so long that then you start to feel sheepish about getting back so you postpone things because, well, you are tardy on your postings. And then you are tardier. And then it's December 8th and your Christmas music is playing and you realize it's not getting any better. August 23rd is getting further and further away. So just bite the bullet and reintroduce yourself to your blog.

Hello blog! Good to see you again!

So what has been happening since August 23rd? A few things...

I got busy.
The Farmer stayed busy.
We stayed on a first-name basis with the folks at Lowe's.
We established a new record of three Lowe's in three counties in one day.
But we finally found the shower door.
We bought our 35th gallon of paint.
We got our occupancy permit in early October.
We moved in the first boxes in early November.
Yes, that was a four week delay.
Note the first two lines of this list.
We moved in most of the boxes in mid November.
My family arrived for Turkey Day and spent the night.
My brother-in-law literally had to make his own bed and put the frame together.
My sister got to sleep in our new bed that we had yet to sleep in.
We still haven't slept in that bed.
My mom bought us curtains.
We still are waiting for the curtain rod to be installed.
It has to dry.
It's hanging like a trapeze in our garage.
It's two pieces of plumping pipe fitted together.
Because while we found the shower door, we did not find a 157 inch curtain rod.
Hence, no sleeping in bed.
We have Christmas lights on the front of our house.
We are eating and living in the house.
We are not sleeping in the house.
Yet.
Because of that dang curtain rod.
And the fact that we haven't had water in half the house since October 31st.
Oh, did I forget to mention that?
Yep.
But we have a back-hoe parked on our front lawn.
If it doesn't rain hopefully we'll have water on Monday.
If it doesn't rain.
We've had triple the normal amount of rain in the past two months.
So cross your fingers.
And me?
I'll be in New York on Monday.
Because, well, Fall Travel Season isn't quite over.

Obligatory Farmer & calf photo