Reverend Ref +

BEST THING

The house is starting to look like home. Besides all of the clutter that we seem to perpetually collect, the stairwell and upstairs hall were carpeted yesterday. Mrs. Ref and I did an incredibly good job picking out the carpet -- it looks great.

We also got a bed. For those of you who don't know, the waterbed we had had for several years (a tube-type thing with several tubes rather than one big wave machine; very nice actually) developed a problem. The tubes began to weep (like your waterglass does sometimes) at an unspecified time. By the time we figured it out, the bed was ruined. So we bought an air mattress to get by. That was late May. Finally, in late August, we bought a bed. I actually slept through the night.

All of this just in time for our open house/thank you party. We've invited everyone who helped get the house ready for our arrival to a parish-sponsored thank you bbq and open house. Now if I can just get some of our pictures up before Saturday . . .