An email from my Mom who recently visited us. It’s a great recap and update on Poppy, so I’m just pasting in here:
I recommend becoming a grandmother — it’s the best! I have just returned from a week in Louisville with Alan and Anita…and Poppy, which included two Halloween parties, a wedding in Columbus, a long walk in Iroquois park to check out the fall colors, two swimming lessons for Poppy (with Anita), and progress made on Poppy’s room mural by my good friend, Joan Firster and me.
Saturday night we got back home and were amazed to see lights on. LG&E rigged up some scary looking connections across downed lines (we will not go walking on stilts), but they got our block light up… faster than I expected.
We were without power for right at a week, and it certainly could have been much worse. We had no damage and no monetary loss (except the food in the fridge/freezer).
I’ve gone for 72 hours without checking my email or getting online. Wonders will never cease.
We’ve been finishing up packing and moving into our new house!
As such – things are of course – crazy and i’m beaten down (in fact, I
might have very very mild heat stroke) – but we’re both really happy to
be here and get this house… we’ll be getting things setup as we can
We have made an offer on 183 Coral Ave. and it was accepted (finally).
You may have heard about the problems we had with the last house we were interested in, so were were trying not to get our hopes up too much – but now we are signed and contracted… good to go.
The house is big enough with a little expansion room in the basement, across the street from a great park and on an almost double lot.
We had gotten VERY excited about a house we were going to buy.
We made an offer, they countered, we accepted… all today (Sunday). We were waiting on the counter-offer-paperwork to sign and send back… well, instead of getting that, we actually got notified that the offer was retracted. Someone else made a better offer and we weren’t given an option to bid back.
Of course, this was after we’d told everyone and after we’d gotten really, really excited about this house.