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Settling Into Our New Home
March 31, 1999 18:39
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Today was pretty busy. We woke up, Mike did some editing and I cross-stitched and had breakfast. About 11AM, we headed for Pullman, the closest “big” city and home of the Cougars of WSU – Washington State University. We drove and walked around basically the entire town, stopping at a quilting store (got on the mailing list), bookstore (of COURSE), gun store, Goodwill (still in search of a pressure cooker – no luck), and ShopKo (like a Wal-mart, but smaller). We were there about 2 1/2 hours, 30 minutes of which was spent on the phone with the Companion Animal Aid and Placement Society. They got more information than a humane society can POSSIBLY ever need, and we’re on a waiting list for a stray dog… a waiting list for a stray, can you believe it??

On the way back, we stopped in Colfax – the closest town with a real-life grocery store. We ...
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Bread and Apple Butter
March 28, 1999 18:44
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Boy, are we ever becoming Maw and Paw Clampett! Yesterday, Mike made bread. Homemade bread. From flour. That he GROUND himself!!! And on the 25th, I made apple butter, from scratch, with real apples. OK, we didn’t grow the apples or the wheat ourselves, but I’m sure that’s coming!

What else has been going on? Hmm… well, we’re both still editing, and Mike’s authoring (a VB book at the moment). Most of the boxes have been unpacked, and now fuel our fireplace at night when it gets really chilly. Speaking of chilly, we got our first snow last night. It was really only flurries, and none of it stuck, but it was snow nonetheless. Big, fat white flakes of snow. I’m used to the light, powdery stuff that melts as soon as it hits anything, so this was new. We woke up this morning to more snow. Again, it melted off (no shoveling yet!) but it was beautiful. Today, as I look out the window in the office (we’re...
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In Endicott
March 24, 1999 18:47
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We made it to Endicott! Actually, we made it here Saturday, but we’re just now settled down enough to do a webpage update. First we had to unload the UHaul, then we had to unpack some of the boxes (by no means ALL of the boxes – more on that in a second) and set up the bed, then our friend Steve showed up with his friend Matt, and we all went to sleep. Sunday morning we finished unloading the UHaul (big strong men, ya gotta love it!) and I rode back to Seattle with Steve and Matt. By this point, Mike had thrown out his back helping unload a desk my daddy gave us. I had JUST recovered from throwing out MY back in Albany loading boxes there.

I got to Seattle, loaded up the rest of our stuff there into our truck, then drove the truck all the way back to Endicott. I got in at 1AM, stumbled to the bed, and collapsed. The next morning, Monday, I drove all over Tarnation (that’s what we call the local area <...
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Back in Ennis
March 18, 1999 18:49
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We’re in Ennis again. We flew to Albany, as planned, and drove a UHaul to Dallas. Nothing really notable happened, luckily. Tomorrow, we drive both the UHaul and the RV to Spokane. We still haven’t closed on the property. Keep your fingers crossed!
Holding Pattern
March 07, 1999 18:50
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Yesterday we went out to my dad’s house. Max had fun playing with Dad’s dog Charger, and Mike took lots of pictures. We stayed out there all day, then drove back to Dallas. We were so tired by the time we got home we just went straight to bed. Today, I went shopping for a petticoat and those accessories I was talking about. It took three malls to finish, but I finally got it done. Now I’m just working on updating this website, and working on one I’m designing for a local company, in hopes that they’ll buy it. That’s right; I’m trying to break into web design. More than anything, I’d like to make enough to pay to put a data line into the place in Endicott. We still haven’t closed on the property, by the way. We found out the acreage was 105 instead of 120, and that since it was listed, the owner sold off part of it, so we dropped our offer. We’ll see. Mike has spent the whole day writing and editing. He’s working on so...
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Finalizing More Wedding Details
March 05, 1999 18:52
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Still busy. Tuesday I went to pick up my dress from BridesMart. Yes! It’s already in! Can you believe it? I have a fitting scheduled Monday afternoon, which means sometime this weekend I’ll need to go pick out my.. um… accessories. You ladies know what I mean. You guys don’t need to. ;-)

Wednesday we went to the cake place, and chose our bride and groom’s cake. (UPDATE – This page is no longer available so the link has been removed.) They’re absolutely beautiful. We didn’t get a chance to do a tasting, though, because all of them had been made with liqueur. We might do a tasting when we get back, but basically we went with amaretto for the bridal cake and chocolate for the groom’s cake. Thursday we met with the photographer. His name is Ralph, and he’s one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. Plus his house is decorated with wedding photos, so it makes me happy to just sit in hi...
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Visiting Mom
March 01, 1999 18:54
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Yesterday we drove out to my mother’s house in Kemp, Texas. We took her the pattern for the bridesmaid dresses and visited for awhile. Then one of my bridesmaids (Julie) showed up, and my mom measured her for the dress. Then I got hungry, so we all went out for Chinese in Seven Points (actual name of city). We left, then came home, where we lounged around and tried to rest.

Today we worked in the morning, then drove out to the Arboretum to meet with Julie Hopkins, their wedding coordinator. We toured the grounds, took some pictures, then came home. Mike cooked a wonderful dinner for us — chicken apple curry sausages in a cornbread casserole with boiled ears of corn. For dessert we had a chocolate pie I had made right after we got home. God, aren’t we sickeningly domestic?
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