Anne and I are starting to adjust, slowly, to our new roles as homeowners. This week we've got a shed going up in our back yard -- rather faster than we'd expected, actually, but it's going to be great -- and we've scheduled the closet organizer people to come in and install our closets on December 12th. By Christmas time we'll have everything hung up, the bikes, sports gear etc. in the shed, and a whole lot more free space in the house.

So that's all good. This morning we got some bad news... Anne spotted another drip leaking through another ceiling, this time the one above our second floor bathroom. It's not a serious leak, yet, but it could be much more damaging to the pocketbook than the last one, as it looks very much as though this one's coming from the third floor roof, under the deck. Getting access to that spot would require ripping up at least some of the deck. Ouch. And of course we have a relentless rain falling today...

This weekend we're scheduled to finally cut the ties to Wychwood, where Anne lived for eight years. We have to go up on Sunday and clean out the last remaining things. We were hoping to have Goodwill or another charity come and pick things up, but it looks like they don't do that any more, or at least not without two months' notice. So we'll just have to take the bookcases apart and truck them off to Goodwill ourselves.

Saturday we're heading up to Georgetown to see if we can buy a dining room table set. Anne's parents have graciously offered to pay for it as a wedding present to us. Then we have to get the basement fridge returned (doesn't fit the space) and buy a washer/dryer for the basement apartment, and that should be it for our major purchases for now... Except for the deck, of course! Thank goodness my Accenture stock is at a good price right now...
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