“…enjoy your last few days of sun for the summer…” – local weather lady on last night’s news

Um…and by the way, Anchorage newscasters are HILARIOUS! HA! Hilariously like college kids and making mistakes.

So much to your reading dismay, I must forewarn you that Mary’s blog real estate will no doubt cover the weather more than you want – at least for the next few seasons!

It’s already unbelievable that we just spent 3 straight years (YEARS) in summer, and now we’re going to spend 7 straight months in winter, every year.

Fireplace, cozyness, snow shoeing (?), sledding (?), Christmas, hot chocolate, hot tea, warm-fresh-baked bread, soup … I’ll just repeat those things to myself as positive aspects for the months to endure.

And so I went on an hour bike ride today in the sun, and hope to hang outside some more today and all day tomorrow… oh…I’m too spoiled from the permasummer mindset to think this is true!!! It was so nice walking out my front door every day of the year in Chow to run, bike, clean the garage, wash the car…HA! California! So weird! And thank God we're not in Chowchilla anymore because they start school this coming week! NO JOKE!

On Monday, we have to go to our school district office to do paperwork and other jibberish. It will be quite a rude awakening to drive an hour and be there by 8 A.M. when the usual is noon + awakence. Oh well, I need to break the sloth.

I (we)’ve been excited about our house plans recently again, especially after talking to mom about her exciting plans in the works. We will already have a wrap around porch with railing on it, and we’re planning on how to screen (or maybe even sunroom it) in for summer breakfasts and afternoon cookouts. WOO!

After several years of ownership, we’ll look to add on a formal dining room and master suite on the main floor, upping our bedrooms to four! Besides that, Casey is going ga-ga over building a shop/guest suite across the way from our house and regular garage. He wants to make it big enough for large amounts of guests to sleep in built in bunks, and/or a separate existence for anyone who wants to stay for a month or two and would want privacy.

Otherwise, our house will be open for business around February 2006 and on! Get your million dollar airline tickets asap! HAhahahaha! We ourselves will soon join AlaskaAirlines credit card mileage builder for any future trips needed to you alls: perhaps for weddings and other fun events on either side of the fams.

Hope the Colorado fun goes well! Wish we we could be there too. Bye bye now.