So indeed, for the last couple weeks or so the infamous Sudz have made their return into our world through Raelin. They're still invisible to us, though still seem to be pretty small. I recently substantially upgraded my monitor to a 30" Apple Cinema HD display (droooooollll), which as you can imagine comes in a somewhat large box. Raelin commandeered it and set it up across the bottom of the basement stairs as the "sudz gate." She would get *very* concerned if I moved it and didn't put it right back. At one point I thought that perhaps I could get away with stashing it in the shop. That lasted less than a day. At this point she seems to have lost interest in making sure the sudz stay in the basement to work. They do still need to be called in from the front deck. Raelin will open the door, go out, clap loudly and yell out "Sudz come! come, Sudz!" This is typically followed by muttering as they come back in with her.
She also recently got a special deck of Go Fish game cards from Kelly's mom. Each pair is a lower and upper case letter with a baby and adult animal to match. Kelly was playing with her the other day and I happened to be upstairs. Kelly and I were both a bit punchy and Raelin asked about the quail, which comes out more like "twail," so we would say "twail, what's a twail" to which her response would be "QUail, not twail, QUail!" Same thing with vulture/wulture. Don't want to push it too hard and make her feel bad, but we all have a little fun with it. And the best part is, she does it back to us as well...
This week I finally got to a yoga class for the first time in like 5 years. Been wanting to do it though never quite got there. Enter Kelly, who went ahead and picked one out, signed me up, and simply told me when to show up. Amazing how that works. So Tuesday was the first class I went to after missing the first class meeting. It was me, a woman about my age, and a few senior citizens. The 2 women were both a bit chunky. However, I was totally humbled by both of them, first when I caught one of them in a full torso twist and then seriously ass-kicked when we were all doing half moon pose. Me and the other youngster were dying and both bailed out of the pose early. The 2 elder ladies however were just contentedly hanging out without a visible sign of stress. OK, that's awesome.
In house news, things seem to be moving a bit more. Had a bunch of brokers here yesterday, and we know that we're the #1 choice for a couple from out of state that's trying to sell their house so they can buy ours. Couple other out of staters are interested, as well as a couple of locals. I don't really care who buys it, I just want it to be sold so we can get out of here and up to the hills. Speaking of which, our friends closed on the land a couple weeks ago and invited us up to go inside the buildings. The house was as expected, needs some paint, a chimney for woodstove and a tankless water heater installed. Nice layout, it actually feels bigger than our house now. From there is just got better. The shed was better than I had remembered/expected even including a poured concrete frost wall...for a shed. Plan is to convert it to my office. And the shiner was getting inside the barn. The construction is all oak post and beam; timbers are 8" or so. Absolutely stunning. We have big plans, and it just feels so good there. The little pond even looks bigger now that the vegetation has died back. So we checked it all out, then everyone took a nice walk to the neighbors to see their goats and then down to the bottom edge of the property. There's a beautiful brook fed by a spring just below the pond. One of the highlights of the walk was being there with another family with a 3 yo and 18 mo. We're not alone =)
Anyhow...that's if fer now...
