Our new life in Corvallis is certainly not dull. Last Sunday (Halloween) Madri called us and invited us to join their two little trick-or-treaters for candy collection. Holy Sugar did we ever enjoy the show. Kaylin (Princess Arial) knew the drill and went flying door to door. It was Brooklyn's (a crab?)first attempt and she mastered the skills quickly demanding "nandy" at each door. It was just what we needed and reminded us of just why we are now living in Corvallis. Those kids are just sooo much fun.
We have been doing beaverthings all week. We donated our pottery gear to the OSU craft center. We had a great weekend with Carlyle and Barb Stout watching our Beavers defeat Cal. We had a blast of Indian Summer and rode our bikes down to the river front for dinner and last night we went to the Thursday night Beaver talk show and had Mike Parker (The voice of the Beavers) sitting across from us and as he is such a friendly guy he introduced himself and was full of questions about us, our past, our days at OSU and it came up about Dick Fosbury (the high jumper) being my roommate. Mike jumped on that tidbit and I shared some stories. Then when he went on the air he opened the show by introducing Sheryl and me and relaying the Fosbury stories. He even got our football coach, Mike Riley involved in our Fosbury stories on the air. It was fun but a little bit embarrassing at the same time. Oh well I guess we will just have to deal with our new celebrity status.
THE HOUSE:
Every day we are seeing progress but we sure have a long way to go. Our big news is that we now have our kitchen 99% done! Whew! We also now have a functioning bathroom on the ground floor, although there still is not a door so we hang a curtain if you need to use our pot. Our master bath is under construction and has a tub but nothing else yet. A couple of more weeks and it should be done. Then we need some new doors, new windows, to paint, drywall, carpets, unpack two storage sheds, build storage in the garage, turn a giant garage closet into a shop, build a backyard storage shed...oh you get the idea.
House-wise our most fun aspect has been the granite kitchen counter. We went off to Salem and selected the stone ourselves and we love it. I'll add some photos.
But our biggest excitement is that a week from today (Nov 12) Tyler and Meghan will roll into town having completed their year on the road. We are REALLY looking forward to seeing them again and seeing their photos, hearing their stories and just catching up.
