Special guest bleugger Chris here. Love the site sweetie! Especially the chipper, NO-Whining tone, which believe me could easily be a whole lot different, considering the "active" past six months in our shell-shocked little lives. Anyway... It is far far better to be stirred than shaken by these goings on, and I will try to keep to that mindset going forward.

Howdy everybody! as they say in Texas, we used to be from there. I just finished gobbling down a piece of toasted homemade bread and strong Sumatran coffee from Costco. The very last bean from our Austin hoard is as of this morning gone, but what a delish cuppa it produced. I'm sure there will be many satisfying coffee adventures for us in the future, but it is a bit hard to let one more friend go...

We should be spending these precious pre-dawn moments loading the cars with more stuff to haul to the new house, in advance of the movers who will be showing up on Monday to haul the crushed, opened, thrown around boxes (which were hauled a couple of months ago from Austin) to their final destination in the village of Dryden. And I do mean final. This load will have electronics, tools, food from the pantry and toys for He Who Must Be Obeyed to busy himself with while we work to get the place a bit more kid friendly.