Last rites
On Sunday, April 29, the family gathered at 501 Clermont for a final cleanup, especially getting rid of the white paint on the grass (from the fence painters). The staging was complete. Nothing to do now but sit back and wait (not too long, we hope).
Moving day pictures here

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1. It was 40 years ago this month that we found the house.

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3. Then along came two littlies (actually, 7 if you count Ursa's five puppies).

4. Then along came two great guys, and then three more littlies (and one additional to arrive in August)

This group is seriously over-educated:

Primrose Stapleton: Toddler; Preschool
Swigert-McAuliff Stapleton: First grade

Undergraduate degrees (Phi Beta Kappa x3):
Yale x3
CU (Boettcher Scholar)
Oberlin
Washington U.

Graduate degrees:
J. Hopkins: PhD economics (abt), MD, MPH
U Penn: MD, MS Geology
U. College London, PhD Biochemistry
Yale: MS Microbiology, PhD Physiology
CU: PhD Ecology
Harvard: Law

Postdoctoral:
CU Med: Biochemistry; Pediatrics
U. College London: Biophysics
Berkeley: Ecology
Harvard: Emergency Medicine
U. Cal. Davis: Ecology

5. Everyone helped spruce things up.

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13. Harvard Law grad plucks white blades of grass

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23. Cynde and Matt Palmer, our neighbors across the alley, stopped by. There are 3 additional girls in this picture.