What’s a gate for, anyway?

We put this up today:
Why? To prevent falls, of course. Obvious, right? Well, not to everybody. We got the gate home, and looked at the instructions, and it said, very clearly: “To prevent falls, DO NOT put this gate at the top of stairs.” Hmmm. Well, to [...]

Happy Birthday, David!

Yesterday, that is.
David, our first-born son. Also, our first baby to be born in America. Six years ago now! That means he’s old enough to start First Grade this fall. I can’t believe I have two kids in school already. How did the time fly by so fast?

The washer and dryer have finally arrived!

I never thought I would be so glad to be able to do laundry, but after waiting almost two weeks, there was practically a mountain waiting, despite our giving in and doing four loads at the laundromat.
The kids found the front-loading machine fascinating to watch in action.

Getting started on gardening

One of the nice things about moving from Florida to Wyoming in June is that we got to finish out the gardening season down South before we moved, and yet we still have a whole season of gardening ahead of us here!
We will have to start out pretty small this year, though, since we still [...]

Elevation Observations

The elevation here is around 5400 feet above sea level, which in theory should mean we will see some difference in how things cook and bake.  I haven’t done a lot of baking yet – just corn bread and an apple spice cake – but haven’t yet seen any difference there.  Probably it makes more [...]

Breaking the Silence

Okay, so I’ve had a hard time picking up my blog again. A lot has happened since I last posted: we had our ninth anniversary, we completed our move to Wyoming, we took possession of our very own house, we unloaded all our belongings into said house, and then we all succumbed one [...]

Blog Updated

Okay, I finally got all my posts from the last week up, so everything is updated now.

Day Two – Making Up For Lost Time

Our second day of traveling was more or less uneventful.  We got up early after going to bed late, and headed out to see if we could make up for our lost time the day before.  We kept our stops pretty short, and just kept driving and driving, and in the end we reached our [...]

Blog lag

Well, I’ve got several posts written and ready to go up, but they have photos to go with them, and this motel we’re staying at tonight does not have very speedy high-speed, so I will have to put them up later when I have a better connection available.  I will pre-date them, though, so that [...]

On the Road – A Slow Start

We loaded up the truck yesterday.  J. had gotten a start the night before, loading on some book boxes and sorting the things in the garage to make the loading the next day go more smoothly, and then he did more in the morning before our help showed up.  About nine o’clock Matt C. and [...]