And in other breaking news...

We bought another house!

It's a small house. Older. Nothing at all like the Kentucky house. It's in a quiet (we hope) neighborhood with a fairly big lot and a fenced yard. It isn't too far from work but is out in the country a bit - an 'over the river and through the woods' sort of drive. There's a guest room and a place for the piano - and the china cabinet with its reminders of Grandma. There's a place for our bright red Adirondack chairs in the back yard under great big cedar trees. There's even a place for the bird feeder.

We can move right in, without putting a lot of work into it first - which is good because owning two houses isn't going to be easy on the finances. We'll trade expensive seafood dinners out for yummy hamburgers grilled on our own patio. And if we ever manage to get rid of that other house, there are a bazillion projects I can already imagine doing to remodel this one and make it our own.

Things are looking up.