HFM

Over Thanksgiving, we house-sat/kitty-sat for our friend & neighbor Jon. While there, I quietly coveted his couch while we watched movies, hoping that one day I, too, may have such a fine couch. Then, a couple weeks ago, Jon told us he was buying a new couch, & offered us the old one, without even knowing about my secret desires. A Christmas Miracle! He brought it over to Mars last night, along with a very nice coffee table that also happens to be a perfectly sized dining room table for our tatami matted dining room. Thank you very very much, Jon! I tried to take some photos of the rooms this morning with my phone, but it's overcast & they just don't look good. I will charge up my real camera today & snap some pictures. I will take a photo of the roses blooming on the Monster Rose Bushes in the backyard, too. These photos will have to wait until the 3rd to be posted, however -- after working too hard over the past week, my hands are aching, so I'm avoiding a...

We didn't get anything done on the house yesterday -- I was putting ads up all day (it's our busiest time of the year), & Adrienne was out at a movie with Amanda, (finally) relaxing & recovering from the fall semester. Today, however, I am planning to put up curtains! And more ads. In the meantime, here is (an inadequate) photo of the incredible dawn this morning.

This morning I'm working from home in the almost-finished office, in the toasty warm house, watching the sun rise over the neighbor's house.

Done! We have heat! It's taken all of fifteen minutes to make the entire house completely toasty. 35,000 BTUs go a long way in this house. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! Now all there is to do is to finally decide who would be a better Myrna Loy, Amanda or Adrienne.

Hooray!

Mr. Bunkport has been walking upstairs & downstairs repeatedly, carrying tools back & forth, for the past half hour. Amanda & Adrienne are discussing some sort of Risk-like game involving honeycombs & settlers, and trying to figure out which chocolate-covered nugget in the little bag has the candy cane in it. Oh, Amanda just found it. And she's not very happy about it.