Last Monday afternoon, I drove out to meet with the foreman of the lot-clearing crew to reiterate the scope of work we all agreed to. The meeting went well, and then it rained and/or was insanely windy the rest of the week, meaning no further progress has occurred. While our water heater looks somewhat new, it also seems to be leaking in the room it is stored in, and our hot water is getting ...

Welcome back, here is an update from last week! Monday morning I woke up feeling not quite right; not nauseous, but not right. Something was "off" with my stomach and I wanted to SLEEP. No fever, no bird-flu symptoms, just super-fast digestion if I ate anything - and I wasn't very hungry. Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, I easily took 3-hour naps AND slept 8-10 hours at night. Nathan was entirely f ...

Time is absolutely flying by - I feel like I wake up and before I know it, it's 2:30. I do the same things every morning - feed the cats, clean their boxes, make ice cubes, do the night's dishes, maybe make coffee (to fridge for Nathan's iced coffee in the mornings), pick up around the house, water/check on the outside plants, and then try to prioritize the rest of my day. This past week thre ...

I've been slacking a bit with the holidays but will be back to our regularly-scheduled programming now! On the 30th, we parked for dinner and our curiosity got the best of us - we see random, small, mostly windowless buildings that say, "Games" on them, and peeked into one on a side street - it was a small casino! After dinner we popped in for a little entertainment - it had at most 20 machi ...