We are supposed to get internet, phone and cable tomorrow morning between 7 and 9.  I am so excited that I have an Eve for it!

I’ve missed blogging this week, and I still don’t have photos or much time right now.

I did finish my Hermione hat.  I really love it.  I am going to have David take a picture of it for me tomorrow.   I’ve started the hat for Davey.  He picked out red yarn.  Tonight, my boyfriend socks are coming out again!  I’ve survived my first week at school, and I am ready to finish them up!

I am at McDonald’s now.  It’s about time to head home for dinner.  Leftover chili.   We can eat chili for days.  The first day was chili and cornbread.  Yesterday was chili and penne.  Tonight chili dogs!  After that we may be “chili-ed” out!

Davey is adjusting to our new home.  Each day I think it’s easier for him.  Yesterday I asked him if he liked our apartment.  He said, “No, it’s not fancy enough.”  I was thinking what?  Fancy?  I asked him, “Davey, what do you find not fancy about it?”   He said, “There is no hose.” (as in outside hose to water the flowers, himself and me).  I told him we’d try to buy a house soon so that he can have a hose.  Funny kid!

Now it’s time for our chili dog Connectivity Eve celebration!

I finally sat down for about 30 minutes last night and worked on my Boyfriend Socks.  Yay for that.  I am on the home stretch on them, so I’ll hope to finish them soon.    I’ve been knitting on my Hermione hat a little as well.  That is the hat that never ends for me even though I do like working on it.

Yesterday morning we went to Golden.

What a beautiful town with a river that runs through it.   We almost lost David right there.  He was about ready to go home, get the Jeep, a fishing rod and disappear into the mountains.

This was as close as he would get to trout today though:

We walked around the town and along the river for awhile and then went looking for some lunch.  We checked several deli type places looking for the elusive peanut butter and jelly sandwich for Davey.  Finally – success, and it was at a great local deli.  David and I loved it.  Unfortunately, I should have known that a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for Davey is a lot more than bread, peanut butter and jelly.  I had a feeling we were in trouble as soon as I saw him pull out the thick italian hoagie type roll.  Then he put peanut butter on the sandwich and did not spread it out evenly and thinly.  Finally, he used strawberry jam, and he glooped a huge glop onto it.  This was not white bread with peanut butter and grape jelly evenly applied followed by cutting the sandwich into small even squares.  Here’s what Davey ate: (chips)

After lunch, we walked around some more.  Davey found a rock area which he called his playground.  He had a great time there.

It’s about time to head out.  It’s beautiful weather today so we will hopefully spend the afternoon outside.   Maybe we will take the dogs with us.  Davey loves to talk to them as we walk.  “Good Grief Guys!  For Cryin’ Out Loud!” (as they drag me around.) I don’t know where he got it, but he says “For Cryin’ Out Loud” in the most nasally voice.  If you hold your nose and say it then you will have it exactly as he says it.

Have a great Labor Day!

Thank goodness for 3 things:  Wifi.  Schools who issue laptops (my next computer = laptop) and McDonald’s.  I am not sure that I’ve ever been too thankful for McDonald’s.  But this McDonald’s has free Wifi and a huge indoor playland which Davey loved yesterday. He played for probably an hour and made just as many friends as he could.  He played with a little girl about his age.  Then two kids just a little older helped him climb everything that he’d just previously climbed on his own.  Very sweet.  It’s a huge big tall playground with tubes way up high.  It doesn’t phase him a bit.  I’m not sure I’d venture up there myself.

Davey’s also enjoying walking the dogs with me.  He laughs hysterically as they yank me around, get tangled around my legs, and try to pull me off the trail.  Two 14 year old dogs and they still walk me.  Stubborn northern breeds!  Of course, guess what he laughs at the very most?  What brings him to a state of hiccups?  Yes,  seeing them poop and pee.  He finds it hilariously fascinating.

We are going to Golden in a little while to look around and “stroll” awhile.  Davey loves to go stroll.   I need to take some pictures today.

No knitting.  UGH.  no knitting at all.  I am trying to get ready for 4 classes plus I learned that I have a lab to teach too.  I am very glad to be teaching, and I am looking forward to it, but it is seriously cutting into my knitting time.  That and trying to get moved in.  We lack just a few boxes from being finished.  Yay!

I didn’t take many pictures of our trip, but I did take a few that I want to put up.

Here, the house is almost empty and Davey is watching a dvd on his little player.  It’s kinda a sad and pitiful photo:

I loved seeing big sky again.  I’d forgotten or maybe never realized how much I love big open spaces.

So even though moving has been a little tough on Davey, he’s stayed happy and smiling most of the time.  Here he was watching some Dora before we left Hays, Kansas.

Our dogs have moved with us several times.  I have pictures like this one of when they were still puppies and we moved to Seattle.   This was in Hays also, and it was really chilly that morning.

Smiling Davey.  David and I were underdressed, but I’d at least thought to bring Davey a jacket.

Here are all almost all of our worldly possessions.  (We left a few things in Arkansas – some permanently and some we will return for when we get into a house!)

Davey got the tripod out while we were unpacking.  He was taking lots of “pictures” of us as we worked.  He gives us positive feedback as well.  “Daddy, you’re a good worker.  Mommy, great job!”  He also heard us get frustrated with all the boxes everywhere.  So today when we were walking, he said, “Mommy, we got all the Junk cleared out of there!”

Ok – time to head home to get the Davids.

Two things I have been missing a lot for the last week.  Knitting and Blogging.  At about 10pm last night, I got out my Boyfriend Sock and I knitted about 2 rounds.  There is a nice thing about not knitting for awhile.  I am kind of a knitting dork maybe, but it was just nice to feel those sock needles in my hands again, and I was kind of transfixed by watching my hands make stitches and seeing the colors change.   I am also seriously overtired still and so I may be extra amused by small things at this point.  Like the idea of sitting.

So now, I am sitting here in the library at our new school, and I am going to blog a little.  No internet at home until next Thursday.  I don’t know how to learn about a new city without Google readily available.

Anyway, we are here.  I have some pictures that I’d like to put up, but they will have to wait.  Davey’s adjusting to our new apartment. Toward the end of the day, he gets pretty tired and he will say, “I want to go to Arkadelphia-town (that’s what he calls it).  I want to throw our apartment in the TRASH.”  The trash is his new fixation, although it still takes a second compared to POOP!

A few things about our trip:  We had planned to leave Monday at Noon.  We left Monday at 7:30pm.  By the time we got to Little Rock, Koko was trying to climb out of the back of the car, over the backseat.  Davey was not enjoying this at all.  We gave her some more doggy valium, and she settled down.  We got to David’s brother’s house at 3am.  Probably not one of our more brilliant driving decisions.  Trying to stop at a hotel with 3 dogs didn’t appeal to us too much either though.  We made it though.

Part of the purpose of the stop in Oklahoma was to leave Daisy in “foster care.” She’s our 3rd little dog,  and she is now very happily settled in at David’s brother’s house.  She has acres to check out, an awesome porch to sit on, and I think she is happy to be away from Koko our chow.  They never liked each other much.  We may never convince her to come back to us.

Tuesday, we left at about 1pm or so headed for Hays Kansas.  By the time we started to head west on I-70, it was dark.  Once we started heading west though, we got to watch a great lightning storm for almost an hour.  It was well ahead of us, and we didn’t get any rain from it.  And what I saw here, I don’t think I will ever forget.  As we were driving, I started to see these flashing red lights ahead.  I asked David what they were.  (Since I lost my cellphone, we borrowed walkie talkies from his brother – they worked great).   He didn’t know.  So we are driving along.  Suddenly, there is an enormous flash of lightning.  The whole field next to me lights up, and there are these huge wind turbines all lined up out in the field.  If I had not been strapped to my seat, I think I might have done a backflip right out of it.  It was all very eerie War of the Worlds looking.  These huge alien creatures making their way across the fields.  Scared the crud out of me.  But it was so cool looking too.  I will never forget that image of those turbines.  I wish I could have gotten a picture of that exact moment.

The rest of the drive was tiring and pretty uneventful thankfully.  Davey and I were about at the end of our driving ropes as we approached Denver.  We started playing a game:

Me:  “Davey, let’s just stop at that house and see if those people will let us move in.”

Davey: “Mommy, we have a problem.  We don’t have a road to get to that house.”

Me:  “Davey, how about we just stop and sleep in that barn.”

Davey: “No Mommy!  That’s for horses!”

And so on.  That kept us going for the last hour or so.

And so we are here.  Unpacking, getting settled in, while also trying to figure out what the heck we are teaching next week.

I don’t think it got out of the 60s yesterday which was a nice welcome.  The dogs loved it.  Koko’s head tilt (from her vestibular disease) is suddenly completely gone.  She still walks like she is kind of drunk, but she’s moving around better.  I think the altitude may agree with her.

And now it is time to stop sitting.