Monday, August 25, 2008

The rise of the blog

I've decided to re-institute the blog. It's been so long since I've written and so many times that I wanted to but as you all know, I've wanted to keep my location private. I have pictures that have been taken with the specific intent of posting to the blog, so you will all get to see our new home.

Re-starting the blog is weird...its been so long, i don't know where to even start. I guess I will skip all the in-between stuff and skip straight to now.

We are all doing well, its been sunny and hot. I think we will be the first people to complain that it doesn't rain enough here. I wish everyone could have come and visited this summer, its amazing how fertile it is here. Everyone here grows something it seems, most of the time they sell it on the side of the road too. U-Pick farms abound, and we have found a favorite where we can get blueberries, blackberries, raspberries...ok a lot of berries. They also have apples and pears and assorted delicious veggies that are all organic and so cheap! It's really neat to take a walk in any direction and be able to pluck fresh ripe fruit from trees that are growing on the side of the road. Thats probably one of my favorite things about living here so far. I realize that yeah, maybe it rains alot (or so they say), but it has a payoff!

We are doing well at work despite alot of obstacles thrown our way. In fact all three of us won an award at out annual seminar for "Best Turnaround Property".


Ok, now for the pics.



This one was taken earlier this year right around the time Anthony started. Thats Anthony's "King of the Complex" pose.







This one of the guys is a pretty funny story actually. Since we manage a Federally subsidized complex, we sometimes need to make special accomodations for people with disabilities. The picture below was taken when Jay and Ant had to move an elderly and disabled man from an upstairs unit to a downstairs unit on the other end of the complex. They were dreading moving all his boxes and furniture across the complex one by one, so they devised an ingenious solution involving a riding lawnmower and trailer as seen below...
















And here is a cute one of Eli standing in front of my next-door neighbor's tomato plants




















I guess I will leave it at that for now, but I will be trying to update regularly as requested.

Love to all!