Jen, Dan, Zachy, and Clara arrived after a week's holiday in Stockbridge with Dan's family to see their
brand new house, poised for the movers.
2 3 4 5 First look inside. Their furniture would not arrive for another five days. 6 Jen last saw the house before any interior finishing had been done 7 8 9 10 11 Laundry upstairs 12 Joan arrives with Maisy 13 Emmy, Michael, and Thalia arrive 14 15 cousins 16 17 18 19 20 Upstairs in the play area 21 Master bath 22 master bedroom 23 24 In the basement - a very large room, carpeted, suitable for... 25 26 27 back upstairs 28 the first and probably last football game in the living room 29 30 31 32 checking on the lunch order, as we prepare to head over to Emmy and Michael's house, scarcely a mile away 33 34 Emmy and Michael's house 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Five days later - the movers have arrived, delivered the furnishings, and the Xanthiites (that's the street they live on) are heading off to move into their new house 45 46 Shortly after they moved in, grandpa babysat for a morning, and saw first hand the toxicity of videos - mesmerizing, paralyzing, stupefying - as he caved to their demands to watch "Rio." During a 15 second video, which looks like a still image, Clara blinked once, Zachy not at all. 48 A field trip to Bill's lab. That's Christi Romberg showing Clara and Zachy some frogs, while Raquel Cano observes 49 Jen, Clara, Zachy, Christi, Raquel 50 Celebratory weekend at the cabin - getting Friday dinner readied 51 Ellen and Ken (top) flew in from Boston. Dan, coming from an ecology meeting in Texas, and Michael, coming from work in Denver, arrived later 52 Clara, Thalia, Jen, Zachy 53 54 55 Zachy instructs Clara and Thalia how to drive the F150 56 57 58 Two favored modes of conveyance 59 60 61 62 63 Time to pick some wildflowers for the table 64 65 67 Sunday dawned cloudier and chillier than Saturday 68 69 70 Sunday brunch (clockwise from top: Bill, Joan's sister Sharon, Emmy, Thalia, Michael, clara, Dan, Joan's sister Laurie, Ellen, Joan's brother Ken, Jen, Zachy, Joan) |