What a beautiful place to live!

I live in an amazing neigbhorhood, city, and state. I wouldn't trade it for the world! We hae been having the most amazing "Indian Summer" weather (altho we were just shy of breaking the driest summer ever record), the leaves are changing colors (I love kicking thru crunchy leaves when walking Sophia) and it's not too cold or wet yet that being outside is really pleasant. I took Sophia for a walk off Lincoln Park on Friday night - I wore a sweatshirt and she had on a light jacket, but we almost didn't need them it was do warm (normally it is windy off the point).

I spent most of my weekend outdoors, cleaning up my "Perennial Retreat" for fall (amazing how that clover can spread...), and spent some time out at my parents' house bringing home things we've stored there for many years (when we first downsized into a small apartment in 1999). It's time to get all of our stuff under one roof, and much of it will be donated to charity. But I admit - it's going to be hard to part with the coffee mug collection, I am not sure if I can do it. When we first got married and merged our coffee mugs, we had over 100 of them hanging on a huge wall in the kitchen of the townhouse we rented when we first got married. We haven't had a kitchen with wall space since - but there are so many memories in those mugs, they've been collected all over the world!

My IGGY Ambassadors (Italian Greyhounds of the NW) meetup group is soon going to be the largest IG playgroup in the world. We only need 14 more members to get past Dallas-Plano. Not too bad considering the group was only founded at the end of April.


Well, I have some adult responsibility things I must do, so this is just a brief check-in. Things are going great. My job is interesting every day - and Steve is going back to work at Microsoft at the end of the week. Thank goodness. He's been home for almost 4 months and needs to get back to work! But he has gotten a lot done around the old homestead!