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houses
Thing are getting busy! This weekend we’re at our Eugene house getting everything ready, because next week they’ll finally be delivering our shipment! Ted ordered some rubber flooring, so we’ll be laying that down in the exercise room. The erg and weight set will go on that. Then we’ll have to lay out all the […]
house!
our counteroffer was accepted yesterday, so I guess we have a house! We won’t close on it until next month, though. We’re still keeping the lake house, Rowell, and plan to go there on weekends, so we wanted something nice but small here. This one is a new townhouse; two bedrooms and a den. So […]
As the House evolves
When we were home in April, I bought a sofa (courtesy of our company’s annual profit sharing – it was a good year). It was delivered a month or two ago, courtesy of my in-laws being here for the delivery, so yesterday when we arrived was the first time we saw it. We now have […]
Happy
I love almost every part of this trip. First, there’s the leaving work as early as we can, though I suspect today that won’t be until 4-ish. Then we go home and get our stuff and change clothes. Then there’s the train ride to Amsterdam, which is when we’re really underway, taking off kilometers between […]
*bounce*bounce*bounce*
Today is Thursday. By evening Saturday (or late-night Saturday, depending from side you look at the 9-hour time difference), I will be here: (I use a Swiss ball as an office chair. I mean the bouncing part quite literally.)
a very very very fine dock
Hey! We have the dock of the month! You can see previous Accudock docks of the month here. Ours was not very complicated compared to some, but the permitting process was long and difficult, and the logistics of building it were tricky (e.g. no heavy equipment allowed on Army Corps land). Our architect (and now […]
full week
It was a full week, so that it feels like we were on holiday for more than the actual 8 days. (I am quite certain this effect will vanish about 5 seconds after I arrive at work tomorrow.) There was the aforementioned shoe-shopping. There was eating of dinner on the deck while looking out over […]
At home, with boots
I realized we’ve got a tradition going; every time we come to Oregon, we each buy a pair of boots. Last summer when we visited in June (the trip where we came out fully expecting to buy another house but found this much better one instead) we each bought a pair of cowboy boots, light […]
the Oregon trail
We’re back. I am tired (jetlagged) and sore, having pulled a rib muscle (gardening injury!). I guess that means it was a good vacation. Short version: We spent a few days at our house near Eugene, then we drove down to Grants Pass, picked up my parents who flew into Medford (half an hour away), […]
A very very very fine house
Our house is astonishingly quiet – even the sixty-cycle hum is barely audible. Our house has wood floors in the great room, with just enough scratches already on them that you don’t have to be always worrying. Our house has places to be alone and places to hang out together. Our house has my books […]