After a slight delay

Update somewhat late - I got sent off to Albuquerque for 3 days on a business trip.

Well, we're now moved in to our house - 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a truly enormous lounge & kitchen/diner, along with nice polished hardwood floors, a neat fenced yard shaded by trees, even a brook running along the back of the property - altho it might just be a drainage channel I suppose.

Of course, as I don't have a social security number yet, we can't get financing for anything, so we only have a small amount of rented furniture, and the place feels pretty empty, but that will resolve in time - especially once all our junk arrives from Britain, in July. Still, nice to have somewhere more permanent (and cheaper!) than the motel.

Cat has been busy this week shopping for all the small bits you need for a home, and stocking the freezer & shelves (well, a few of them - the kitchen has so much storage, I can't conceive what we'll ever do with it all): so it's feeling more homelike, and she's starting to cook dinners so we aren't eating out all the time.

Brandy & Midnight took a day or so to forgive us for moving them *again* - they'd basically just recovered from the trauma of the long haul, when we packed them up and moved them again: but now they've discovered the Great Outdoors! and the joys of wading through the grass and sniffing the trees, for the first time in their lives, and I think we're well forgiven :) Even with the fenced yard, I'm a bit paranoid about letting them have free reign outside yet, so we have to herd them back inside when we go out.

Meanwhile, we're wandering around furniture stores identifying what we want to buy, once we're in a position to do so (however, I do fear we may get tripped up by another factor once the social security card arrives, namely, No Credit History - a pretty tricky hurdle to get over. Still, we'll find out about that pretty shortly I guess.)