January 4, 2010: Moving to Irving, Texas!

Today is the day, we are moving to Irving, Texas and, if all goes well, we will no longer be homeless vagabonds but normal people with an apartment to call our own.  I can’t believe that we are finally going to really be Texans now and not just squatters in Bayou Vista. Liesl decided that …

August 20, 2009: Moving to Texas

I spent the whole of this morning and early afternoon eagerly awaiting some amount of solid news about what is happening at work.  I’m pretty good at dealing with disasters but I am exceptionally poor at handling “pending decisions.”  It is less of the unknown but more of the “known, but no one will fill …

April 10, 2008: Making Autumn Plans

Today was the most absolutely gorgeous day. More than seventy degrees, clear and sunny. I was actually just a touch too warm as I took Oreo out for his morning walk. We ran into far more dogs getting walked today than usual. Everyone was wanting to get outside and soak up the weather. It is …