Life before 2008 08 Jul 2006 08:36 pm
Wertberg
That’s how W says it. We went there today.
After a short war over the TV, a plate of fluffy pancakes and sausage, and cold-by-the-time-we-drank it coffee, we loaded up and headed to FINALLY show our kids the house and town we were supposed to move to two weeks ago, and Lord Willing, will still do so in another two weeks.
We are having a little spurt of flawless weather and it was a perfect day for a little car trip. The kids are still pretty sick; too sick to actually go and hike but tired enough of our boxed in four walls to really need a change of scenery. We had the windows down and David and I sang little fragments of songs we used to know, laughed, shared ideas, and listened to our kids. Kids who, for some marvelous reason, were all in great moods and were getting along.
The house and yard still look wonderful. The people maintaining the yard had just been there and it was all freshly cut. One of David’s work friends lives down the street and also worked on the house years ago. He saw us drive up and came on over to say hey. It was neat to hear his description of how it used to look and what projects he was a part of. The kids ran all over the place; the nuns who we thought lived across the street actually don’t. They run a tutoring school in the house but actually live somewhere else. So it’s all very quiet around there. The kids will be able to ride their bikes around the corner to the post office to get our mail and sled down the hill in the backyard in the winter. We are very anxious to actually get out there!
From there we headed to the Obed Scenic River to scope out a camping site to visit with friends. The website described it as “primitive”, and it um….is. Beautiful. Great swimming with a large and rocky beach area for adventures, lush trees and big cliffs surround and while the bugs were bad, it was a nice place for a picnic. I’d bought David a special italian sausage and we put it with cheddar, apples, bread, and dark chocolate. The kids skipped stones and waded up to their knees; I’d forgotten swim suits.
The way home consisted of antique stores along the way to drool over roll top desks and secretaries, metal bedsteads, trunks, and stained glass. Makes me want to pitch a good 60% of our furniture and just do without until we can afford to get the pieces that we really enjoy.
We got those kiddos to bed and now we’re soothing out to Carly Simon, the Alan Parsons Project, Simply Red, and Sade. This Is No Ordinary Love, it’s Coming Around Again, If You Don’t Know Me By Now, and Time….is he a merman or what? “Good Bye my love, the tide calls, it’s time for me to go, some day we’ll meet again….” Anyway, it’s a good Saturday vibe. I hope yours was smooth too.
on 08 Jul 2006 at 10:11 pm 1.Sarah said …
Sounds like a lovely day!