More Geocaching!

This is a picture of the cache called "Steelhead View". It's a puzzle cache, so you have to figure out the clues before you can actually get the correct coordinates to the hiding spot. It's named Steelhead view because it is across the river from the Niagara Springs Steelhead Hatchery.

Here's Jerry at our second try for "Niharts Fountain of Youth." Our GPS's were telling us where it was, but we didn't believe them. Silly us. We finally found it just where it was supposed to be. Where it's supposed to be is NOT where Jerry's looking in this picture!

What's the Poopy Tractor Doing in the Sink?

That's the question for the day. Yes, there's a poopy tractor in my kitchen sink.

Nolan generally plays pretty well by himself. The only time you have to really worry is when it gets quiet. Today I realized it had gotten quiet when Nolan was playing in his room. Normally, his room is pretty noisy, because he has a hardwood floor and lots of plastic toy tools.

I ventured into his room to see a totally naked toddler with his diaper on the floor very carefully open and balanced. He was just as very carefully picking poop pellets out of his diaper and packing them into the bucket of his front-end-loader toy tractor. I managed to get there AFTER the bucket was full, and he'd started on the radiator.

Everyone should have to try to remove poop from the nooks and crannies of a plastic tractor radiator while your little boy screams BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN! Thank goodness for "Choc-choc" to distract him...Said tractor is waiting patiently for the dishwasher's sanitize cycle.

Flowers in the yard

These pictures are of some flowers that live in my new lawn. There are hundreds of them. They are about the size of a dime.

House Selling Update

The house is sold! At least, it's sold on paper. The new owners still need to close Escrow. But yay! We were quite impressed with our realtor. He listed the house on a Tuesday, showed in Wednesday, and had the offer Thursday. We counteroffered, and they signed the counteroffer the next Tuesday.

One week to sell a house. Not bad.

Skiing on 3/18/2007

Here's Nolan with Daddy.









Nolan Riding up the Magic Carpet. We were so happy to find this, since it means that we don't have to deal with a rope tow! Woohoo! Talk about cushy...all you have to do is stand there, and the carpet takes you right up the mountain!

Skiing on 3/11/07

Nolaln skiing with Daddy, and Grandpa Bob is following, holding the training bar that Nolan decided he no longer needs.


Here is Nolan skiing with Mommy, and Grandpa Bob.

Moving!

We're demoting ourselves - from the lofty reaches of homeownership to the life of lowly renters. The opportunity came up for us to get into a house on Jerry's Grandparents' property, and we jumped at it. Both of us grew up around 10 miles from town, and living with exactly 12 feet between our house and the neighbors was really starting to bother us.

So we moved, and we've spent the last few weeks slowly getting all our stuff out and into the new house. The new place is totally surrounded by trees! It's only 2 bedroom, but the square footage is actually larger than our house in town, so the bedrooms are almost twice as big. We've also gained a dining room, a larger kitchen and utility room, plus a basement that has a cellar and a largish room that we have converted to a TV/Playroom. It'll also be our computer office once we get the office bench/shelves built. We have a garage, too!

Personally, I am happy we're out here in the country; Nolan has been "helping" Grandpa Bob and Grandpa Wayne fix the pipe to the cow waterer. He loves being able to take hikes and play on the big tractors.