Settling back into home routines...

I've been on radio silence as I've gotten back into the groove of being home; lots has happened & been done, but not too much that I've felt like sharing.
Some of the highlights:

• Sorting out a couple months of bills


• Cleaning up about 3 years of sticks out of the yard.


• A 'starting the last semester' party for Chaz.


• Going to Albuquerque to see my Grandmother.


• Getting to see a few friends of mine in Albuquerque while there, as well as seeing where my Dad's father is buried, and eating some really, really good Mexican food.


• Getting a second bike so that both of us can go on weekend rides.


• Chaz's 16 month old niece peeing on my kitchen floor during a Mother's Day brunch with his whole family over.


• The mother of said niece having her second child that same day. (her water broke elsewhere.. but was it what we fed her?)


• Lots of pure grade D crap at work.


• Struggling far too long with creating mailing labels for the Neighborhood Association.

The elderly lady next door has gone to live in a retirement community so her son got it prepped to sell, and evidently sold it without putting it on the market. The surveyors were out there today digging out the pins and setting markers.

Comps in the neighborhood were around 130's, but the house having only had 2 owners, would have needed 20K worth of updates to live in or flip; in the short run my gut tells me we wouldn't get that money out of it, so I guess I'm glad someone else got the house.

I've got some photos to post, hopefully this weekend, and I have taxes yet to do.