We've Moved

It's been way too long since posting here last time....but there is a reason. We decided to make a move from the St. Louis area, where the summers are oh, so hot and humid that it feels like 6 months of a steam bath (sorry, Tourism Bureau, but it's true) to the high and dry country of Albuquerque NM. That meant fixing, cleaning, staging, clearing, selling, donating, for a couple of months in preparation for putting our home on the market. We listed it on March 13, and within 3 weeks had two offers. We refused the first one, and accepted the second one. Then the fun really began, as we prepared for the move.

Because of the distance and the cost of moving furniture, we finally found a wonderful auctioneer who agreed to pick up whatever we didn't want to move and is putting it into a consignment auction on June 14th. We packed what we could into two cars, along with our two cats, to take with us to a temporary furnished apartment in Albuquerque. The buyers bought some of the furniture, and the rest went into storage at the moving company. We left the area on May 29th, arrived in ABQ on May 31st, and are settling in enough to see how we like it here. As I'm typing this, I look out the front window to the mountains behind the apartment complex -- beautiful clear blue sky.

No photos to post right now, but we'll try to stay more current. My fingers itch to start painting again!