Up: date & a tree

The schools in the area are closed today, for a brief moment I thought maybe it had something to do with the inaguration, but as it turns out they're closed for snow, the whopping inch that fell last night.  

We've got two weeks until we need to be all moved out of this house and, boy, is it going to be close.  It means we've got two weeks to finish the other house, today is inspection day for wiring, plumbing and framing, the paint arrived last night, there's no floor in the bathroon/laundry room, the kitchen should be arriving from IKEA today and the drywall that's up is still drying.  We're hoping the floors will be refinished as they're cleaned up and not all in one fell swoop.  George has gently argued for the floors to be refinished with some nice, friendly stuff from Vermont Natural Coatings, and as of this morning he's succeeded!  It doesn't smell as awful, it can be recoated in two hours, it's made from whey!, and it's made it Vermont.  

We've recently rediscovered our one friendly, neighborly neighbor who is (surprise!) also from Vermont! and who's looking for a new job!  She lives with a great golden retriever, Indigo.  We've been taking Indigo out for walks since we got home; it urges us (read: me) get out of the house, it lets our neighbor get out to continue the great job hunt, and Indigo gets to run around twice as much.   

Yesterday afternoon Boy got himself up the biggest tree in our backyard and it took at least an hour of coaxing to get him down.  In the end, I think it was jealousy that Girl was getting all the cat treats that got him down.  (Something to remember for the future.)  Since it's only about 20 degrees this morning he's content to stay inside and no up a tree.  Girl is content to take a bath directly in front of the space heater.