Purty New Car and House Progress

I'm writing in red today to celebrate my BE-U-TI-FUL new car! It's a Saturn Outlook - red, as you can see with pretty light tan leather seats! It will pull a trailer to camp with and has enough room to pick visiting friends and family up from the airport!! When we ordered it the dealer said it would take 10 - 12 weeks - but since it's about the end of the model year they got it out in just 5 weeks!! So we got to drive it for a day, but now it will just sit in our garage in Northern Retirement State til we get there!! Oh well - it didn't make any sense to drive it all the way to So Cal for just a few weeks then back!

The contractor is moving right along on our remodel! On Monday they got the sub-floor down and he told me yesterday that the wall framing was up!! Can hardly wait to see that! It is sooo fun - it will be a large room with plenty of windows and lots of light!

It was such a fast trip - up on Sunday, back on Tuesday, but we got sooo much done! We registered the car, ordered all the windows, the back door and a new front door, confirmed the carpet, hardwood floors and counter tops and found pendant lights and a chandelier for the dining room!

I still have to get the sink faucet ordered - I sure wish Dishmaster made a prettier, more updated looking faucet - but I love the pull-out scrubber-handle-with-the-button-for soap SO MUCH I will overlook that the company has fallen a bit short in the faucet design!

Well, we leave next Tuesday for Paris, France! Hubby and I are spending 4 nights there to explore the beautiful city, then we'll leave Sunday morning to take the Chunnel train under the English Channel to London where we will meet Morning Glory and her hubby! We'll spend another 10 days with them in Southwestern England!! Then we'll come home to just a month before we pack the apartment and head north!! Boy!! This last 2 years has gone SOOOOO FAST!!!

Granddaughters Are So Fun!

We had so much fun last weekend - we got to babysit our granddaughters! Computer Guy and Darling Wife had a special date and we were only tooooo happy to drive down and help them out!


As we approached the door MissC greeted us with, "GrandiPoppys here! Mommy, GrandiPoppys here!!" at the top of her lungs! I love it!! Makes the drive worth it even if that's all there was!!!

We played while mommy and daddy got ready to go - they looked soooo good!! Then off they went and we played games, read books, told stories - all around had a wonderful time!! Because it is a long drive we stayed the night so CG & DW wouldn't have to cut their evening short.


Hubby slept on the blow up bed, and I shared the couch (quite comfortable actually) with Cooper the granddog! The guy cracks me up! It was hot in the afternoon - so here he is trying to stay cool, and this is one of the positions he was in when we were sharing the couch!! He really poses himself in these positions!!