on the home front...

in our pursuit of defining where we would like to live, assuming that we stay here in the area, continue running our business, and that our house (which we have pulled from the realtor's grasp and are running on craigslist for the time being) eventually sells, we have been looking at various areas both close-in and far-out! last sunday alan and i took a drive to badger mountain to look at a beautiful 5 acre property, unimproved, and to widen our knowledge of the area. my mom entertained amira (who, when asked if she wanted to go for a drive with mom and dad gave a resounding "NO!") for several hours. wow, it was kind of like a date! here is one place that maybe we could buy even before our house sells...two more payments and it's ours! ha ha!

it was a spectacular eastern washington kind of afternoon, and i wondered why so many people had steered us away from waterville, when the views were like this:in the meantime, we continue to work on our place, "we" mostly meaning alan, in his multi-talented and eye-for-detail exacting way, landscaping, putting in sprinkler systems, fixing doors and the other repairs that never seem to end. (the shelf and rod in our closet collapsed just before 7am the other morning, thankfully we were already awake, or it would have been a very rude awakening!) this is one of the things i of course don't have a picture of...imagine that!

we girls did plant a few flowers in pots to decorate the back porch, and amira loved that!

amira received a beautiful hand-knit sweater from our friend Synden...wow! here she is modeling it, it looks like it will fit just perfectly for this fall and winter!