R/POW

Met up with Ami for Breakfast (well, late lunch for her) on Saturday - a new (to us) spot Leah had heard of - Mikes Diner in Southie. Big portions of yummie food. It was a walk from Northeastern, so Ami took the car back to the confrence while Leah and I finished up our breakfast, then walked it off in search of the car. A quick check into the antique collective before they closed, and then some newspaper crossword action.

(our aprox view from our table in Mike's, though not our pic)

This Friday will be getting G-ma's wireless up and running in Windham, NH. Saturday is the move, though I'm still not entirely clear on where to show up when.

Welcome to "The Move"!

This weekend's ROW starts on Thursday with dropping off Andy's Pilot to have it wired up with trailer brakes so that we can tow the enclosed trailer that we purchased last fall. Till now, we have always borrowed other trucks for towing with.

Friday's work was successfull and so we picked up the truck and were on our way. A quick check and a few minutes of work had everything set to go for the morning. Unfortunately Logan was also diagnosed with Strep and so he stayed home with Ami during the day.

On Saturday Ami got up to see the sunrise in order to make it to Boston for a RID workshop held at Northeastern University. Andy and Logan thought twice about being lazy in bed all day, but finally pulled it together to welcome Andy's mother and father in to help start moving. The suv and trailer were packed and moved to the big blue house and then the trailer was partially repacked in expectations of another trip on Sunday. Logan was feeling much better as of Saturday afternoon - running and playing - keeping everyone busy during the move.

Sunday was a day for church - Andy took a call with the Ambulance right after church and then it was load up time for the afternoon trip to Manchester. We were back just in time to have some dinner and get Logan off to bed. Hope everyone remembered to set their clocks ahead an hour last night ;)

Ami and Andy will be making small trips this week and we hope to have a handle on what is left plus a full trailer to start unloading first thing in the morning on Saturday. Logan is very excited about the move and can't wait to get to sleep in the new house. We are sure he will miss the Wethersfield house, but are very happy he is looking forward to the move.

Warm wishes and thoughts...

THINK SPRING!!!!!!!
Maybe it will get here sooner than later.

YEA I'm in now

I think I have finally figured out what it is I should be doing to do "the next best thing". Dad and I will be hopefully be helping Andy and Logan do some moving of furniture and things to the big blue house this weekend. Ami will be busy in Boston. I spoke to Ami a short time ago and we went over some of the furniture that has been stored here in Pawcatuck for the past year. I will be happy to have the room back to allow me to move things around here as well. I am working evenings the rest of this week with the weekend off. Dad has National Guard next weekend and I am scheuled to work. I guess that means no green stuff for us!!!!!!
LOL
Nana

Gratuitous Puppy Pic

From last week.

Address correction

I see that I made a mistake in prining our address further down(earlier) in the blog here. We will be living at #33, not 31. Our landlords, Colombo and Amy, along with their kids, Colombo (C4)who is 8, Madison, who is 6, Nathaniel, who is 3, and Trevor, who is 8 months, live at #31. Oh, and Gunner, the golden retreiver (and he's 2, just like Katahdin).

The big move is scheduled for the 17th and 18th of March, and we will look into providing green beer, but you may have to settle for authentic Irish grog instead. Logan will be serving green eggs and ham.

New House pics

Welcome to the BIG BLUE HOUSE . . . We have signed a lease today for the duplex apartment. Colombo (and Amy) have been kind enough to let us start dropping stuff there already. I will be dropping off small stuff each time I take Logan to daycare, which will be everyday this week as his dad is on vacation.

New House pics, continued

Dining Room . . . Why yes, we will actually have an eating room in which one might sit down to have dinner without having an unobstructed view of all of the dishes it took to make the fine meal in front of you.

Wouldn't that built in hutch look great if it were natural wood instead of white? Hmm ... we'll see.

New House pics, continued

Kitchen . . . The Far Side with the back door. Do you think that we should put a breakfast table in here or what?

New House pics, continued

The Kitchen...past the sink/stove there is what might be referred to charitably as a "butler's pantry," but it's the laundry with a little more storage.

New House pics (last)

And this is the back yard, taken from the steps of the back porch. The door in the kitchen, on the far side of the fridge opens there.

A note from the M-S-J household

Hello, All!

I have figured this blog thing out. I just need to figure out a POW and there isn't much of a ROW for this side of the Slater clan. I guess the current POM is on the 17th and 18th is the Connecticut River Working Group dog show in West Springfield that Mike, Jasmine and I plan to attend, not enter, so that we can meet up with other members of the NEMC, (New England Mastiff Club).

Congradulations to Ami, Andy, Logan and Katahdyn for the sell of their Wethersfield house and their future rental of half a house in Manchester. Good luck to you. We'll have to attend the UMC in Manchester together one Sunday.

Hope all are happy and healthy! Spring is almost here!!!

Paul's POW

Happy Belated Birthday to Andy!!!!! I had no idea til just now.

Exciting times - today was one of those days that I resolved [while still in bed] to finally clear off my work desk by getting rid of the missing parts / damaged items that I've been meaning to do all week, but then arrived at work and looked at a filled schedule of meetings, training, and the gym. Yikes.

Friday I plan to head up to G-ma's (barring white-out conditions) to finally get her back online! I don't want her to feel stranded, afterall. Also with the dial-up to broadband upgrade will come a move to Windows 2000, which will require some memory chips that I also have for her. That part of her computer will now be 4x faster, with any luck (and way, way, way more stable). That should give G-ma and me some nice tea and talk time, perhaps even with cucumber sandwhiches and talk of the queen. (I really do like visiting g-ma for conversation and tea quite a lot, it just sounded so very British just then) Hopefully dinner with M+D fri night, though details are still being worked out.

Saturday is a documentary movie with the cambridge kids to take Leah's mind off her recent breakup. And food shopping and cleaning and all that.

Fun starts now!

OK, it's for real! We are moving to the Big Blue House at 31 North Elm St in Manchester, Ct 06042. Logan is going to meet the kids and dog today.

To add to the excitement, I just found that I have a women's retreat with the church scheduled and paid for the last weekend before closing. Greeeaat! And an all day workshop in Boston on the 10th. Excellent timing. oy!