Exploring Saint Joseph

So we have a lot of time on our hands these days; on account of packing up most of our stuff already and being unable to pack up everything else until the last minute (because you have to have dishes to cook)

So we went exploring saint joseph yesterday. Mostly because i wanted to take pictures before we moved.

This is a view of the River, looking toward downtown. This overlook would have been really nice if only the car next two us hadn't had a couple scary looking people in it...

This is right along the river. Dan's being goofy, and clinging to the support of a bridge. You know, like spiderman, or something.

Most of this path (riverwalk) was closed due to flooding. It's been over a month since the river receded from overflowing it's banks and there are still huge pools of standing water all over the place. and it smells BAD. stagnant water is kinda gross.

And the river itself. With a bunch of washed up trees. I'm guessing they were uprooted and washed downstream in the flood....

This lovely building is the nature center. I didn't even know saint joseph HAD a nature center. It was however, closed at the time, my guess is on account of flood damage or something. If you notice, the building is raised up off the ground, probably a good 8-10 feet. Definately taller than me, anyway. Not that it's hard to be taller than me. But anyway, it looked like the building might have flooded.

Look, I do clean!

Occasionally, anyway. This room seems so big and empty with the furniture moved around...and some of it gone...

On the other hand, it at least looks nice now!

moving is messy

This is the current state of my living room. Not exactly stellar as we've cleaned out three of the rooms in the house and closed them off so i don't have to clean them again. But hey, i'm moving. It's no big deal. I can live with a little mess.

Except the landlord called today and he wants to start showing the house on Thursday. Um...yeah. ok. Well, there are gonna be boxes all over the house. Nothing I can do about that.

But i guess i can try to keep the floor vacuumed and what not. In theory, anyway.

Moving...

Moving is no fun. Well, actually, i take that back. I think moving is lots of fun. You know, as long as it's once every 2-5 yrs or so. Moving twice in less than a year? Not so much.

But we are busy packing up for our move back to Maryland. And then wherever else God decides we need to live. If that turns out to be California or someplace like that...well...Our couch would, at that point, have something like almost 10,000 miles on it. Which, honestly, is pretty impressive for a couch. They don't usually travel that much. :)

Packing isnt so bad until you get to the kitchen, and you look at all your glass dishes and such, and go...um....yeah. ok. How am i gonna do this? Because, you know, for all that i've moved, like...in six major moves, I don' think i've ever done a kitchen. I always remember the movers coming in to pack up the dishes so that it would be their fault if they got broken. So i'm still working on figuring that one out. I bet i could find instructions on YouTube.

We sold our dining room table and got rid of our extra fridge. We've packed up books, and DVDs, and knick knacks, and most of our clothes. I foresee a lot more laundry in my future as we are both only keeping out about five days worth of clothing. We've thrown away MORE stuff (seriously. Where does it all come from?) We've filled a bunch of bags of STUFF to take to goodwill. It's pretty much insane.

As a final note; people look at you REALLY funny when you go an start pulling newspaper OUT of the paper recycling bins. But we don't get the newspaper and it makes great packing material.