house boat? yacht?

G tells me this is a yacht.  I say, well, we're going to be living on it...it's a houseboat.

oh my gosh

oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

so.  this morning (early, like 7am), g goes across the street (we live across the street from a grocery store) to get some cream for his coffee.  on his way back, he noticed a purse near the drive-by post-box.  friendly, he picks it up & brings it home.

for me, this is the stuff of movies or television shows--mystery bag, mystery person, all left up to unsuspecting neighbors to figure out!

the bag looked like a teeny-bopper's, so i was surprised to find her id card say she was born 2/27/1926!  very hip for an almost-83 pisces. and her jazzy cell phone was much cooler than either greg or mine's.  creepily, was able to google her name & get her landline, which we promptly called...no answer.

(and, okay, okay.  i couldn't resist.  i did look a little bit through her bag...just one of the two pockets.  she had all these $2 bills. for the grandkids?  and a really great flashlight.  and every single piece of identification she must own.  holy cow.)

a few hours later, a woman called looking for her mom. so i explained the situation & she came by to pick up the purse.  i asked her her mom's birthday, just to be sure.  creepy or smart of me?

apparently, all the sisters are worried about their mom since no one has heard from her all day (maybe because she lost her phone?) and she was supposed to be on something called a "discovery tour" and was to leave her car parked at shopko.  another sister was on her way to check on the shopko parking lot.

mystery ended...for me.  but i wonder if something will show up in the olympian later??

wet day in oly

today was a wet day.  it didn't rain at all, but sometimes it doesn't matter--the air felt heavy with water and the moisture weighed down on town.  sort of like walking around in a cold, brisk cloud.

i actually accidentally spent most of the day inside.  we have the final draft of our manuscript and are re-reading it for little typos the publishers might have missed or any last-minute little changes.  so wild to see it coming together.  what's sort of funny is that when j & i started this project, we figured it'd take a year...max.  not so, friends; but its definitely happening.  

anyway, so i sort of came out of a haze around 4pm and realized i hadn't been outside since my run. so i hustled out the door for a walk and was unprepared for how cold & wet it was!  definitely wish i had remembered my mittens since i was trying to talk on the cell phone at the same time.  my hands got cold!  but it was lovely to be outside in the last moments of daylight.  

por fin!

ladies & gentlemen.

i would like to introduce you to the newest member of our little family: the red couch!! (check out this blog post for commentary on the process this couch involved).