The theme for this update is moving.
On June 12th we moved into our new house. Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it? No move is easy, something always seems to happen to make it interesting. In this move we hadn’t completely inventoried the stuff in the attic, which was a mistake. Additionally, the movers weren’t insured for accessing a pull-down attic. Something that would have been good to know when their guy was out to do the estimate. The movers agreed to help, for a fee of course. We still needed the help of our neighbors to finish packing a bunch of loose things that were left. One thing is certain, pack everything. No matter how big or small, or strangely shaped, it needs to go into a box of some kind. Otherwise movers get confused. Luckily, there were no issues on the move into the new house. The closings went well with no snags and before we knew it, we were moved in.
We’re really enjoying the new house. I think the best room in it is the bonus room above the garage that is now Axel’s play room. He’s having a lot of fun in there and sometime in June, he started walking by pushing a toy. We had the toy out for a while, but one day I was sitting there and he got up behind it and pushed it over to me all by himself. He’s since moved up to walking while holding our hands.
The last two weeks of July we all went on vacation up to Door County, WI. We had to rent a cottage because the family cottage had a small bat issue. As far as I know, no one ever asked about the total number of bats in the walls, but it sounded like a lot. Eventually someone came to take care of them. It’s kind of strange, but this guy, working out of WI, has flown to various places to help with bat problems, ironically, even Michael Keaton’s place in Montana.
The vacation was good although probably a bit too long. Axel never quite got used to the 1 hour time change and routinely got up between 5:45-6:00am every morning. My parents came up for a few days to stay with us, which was fun because Axel got to hang out with them first thing every morning. We did our normal stuff up in WI, hung out on the beach and went swimming, I did a little fishing on my own and with my Dad. I took my parents up the penninsula one day and we hit some shops. Near the end of the trip we hit that heat wave happening all across the country, so even up there it was in the mid 90s. It was good to come home. Axel did great on the flights, playing during two of them and sleeping during the other two. The last flight wasn’t too good, it was late, had to stop before take off to fix something, and the RDU airport when we finally landed was crazy. I think we’ll do all of our flying in the mornings from now on.
The last move was the website. I decided it was time to get it up on a normal host rather than run it out of our house. The third computer adds a good bit of heat to the office, so it’s nice to keep it shut down. Hopefully now the site won’t be down whenever we go on trips or have a power outtage. Everything seems to be working as it did before, but feel free to email me if you find a problem. I’ll also be getting a lot of new pictures up soon.
