• blubbity blub blub

    July 22, 2013 /

    I’d like to have something interesting to say today, but I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel. Mostly I’ve been trying to rearrange and unpack and clean and cook and donate stuff and wrangle kids and put stuff away and…

  • Fun Days and Shelves! and Hobby Lobby

    July 20, 2013 /

    We started the morning with me going to the farmers market for many good things including red potatoes, cantaloupes, carrots, broccoli, lettuce, peaches, apricots, and cilantro. I think a couple other things snuck into the baskets too. Meanwhile, the man…

  • one day more

    July 17, 2013 /

    I got so sick yesterday. Nausea and other intestinal distress, plus a headache. Today a bit of headache and blurry vision. I’m trying to decide if this is a) a stress reaction to all that’s been going on, b) a…

  • I found shoes

    July 15, 2013 /

    I found my shoes today. It was an exciting moment. I also unpacked some more boxes, and yet there are always more. More more more. We are trying to decide whether or not to a) get updated phones, b) if…

  • Home

    July 14, 2013 /

    We are back home. That has a very odd ring to it to me. We lived in Montana for 14 years and both our kids were born there. We have a number of friends there and a lot of memories.…

  • Moving on up, moving on out

    July 10, 2013 /

    I can now officially announce that I am not longer a professor at the University of Montana Western. Today I resigned, turned in all my keys and equipment, and left. We also signed on our house, so we have officially…

  • ugly toe

    July 8, 2013 /

    this is my ugly toe: Not sure you can see the bruises that well, but it’s quite purpley blue. I am so talented. Tomorrow we drive to MT to close on the house. That will happen Weds. God willing and…

  • A snippet

    July 7, 2013 /

    In liu of talking about crappy days, I give you this, a snippet of the WIP: On either side, flat stone had been mortared into solid square pillars designed to hold a majestic iron gate. The majesty was all gone…

  • No aliens here

    July 5, 2013 /

    No aliens came and blew up Salem during the fourth. It was a good day and good to be together as a family. We took an enormous load of cardboard to the recycler today. it was nice to clear space…