Maren has been on a basketball team this winter, and yesterday was their last game. When she started the season she had never really dribbled or shot a basketball before, and it showed. She was not exactly the strongest player on her team. Being almost a foot shorter than the tallest kid on her team she still is not the strongest player, but boy has she improved. She has worked so hard at improving her skills, and I am so proud of what she has accomplished!
Maren stopping to smell some daffodils in a walk through our neighborhood:
While Linden is more interested in a puddle:
From birthday crowns
To birthday cake
We had a great time celebrating Linden. Happy 5th birthday kiddo! 🎂🎉🧁🪅🍰
I feel like I have updates akin to the potpourri category in Jeopardy!. So here they are, in no particular order.
We are no longer homeowners. The new owners took possession of our house in Saskatchewan on February 16, and everything there is now finalized. We are free!
We have now looked at just about every available house in Corvallis, so we know now that we don’t want anything that is available and we are waiting for the right house to appear. Fingers crossed that happens soon!
We took a long weekend vacation to Sunriver, which is a resort town at the base of Mt. Bachelor, with my mom, sister, and niece.
There has been some really nice weather, and lots of time outside at parks.
And here are some photos:
We are playing a game of “is it sewer or dead animal” right now. We have so much experience, but somehow we are still not very good at it 🤣
Both toilets clogging/gurgling, and smell emanating from the bathroom? Must be sewer, right? Nope, camera from roof vent through to city main shows it is clear. Toilet problems got fixed, and smell continued to get worse. So probably dead animal (most likely a rat, since we know they are here), in the wall between the two bathrooms.
It is awful and disgusting, but I keep imagining that we are contestants on a horrible game show. The theme music plays, and then the studio audience shouts “Sewer! Or! Death!” And the game is just our lives, and there are no winners. It’s probably German.
In all seriousness, Jeff spent almost an hour in our crawl space yesterday, unsuccessfully trying to locate the presumed dead animal. It was both hilarious and terrifying.
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