A number of things.  First off an apology to the people who were looking for some of my musings.  I don’t really remember them any more.  I know the general topic, but not sure what they were.  That’s what I get for not blogging them when I think of it.

Second off, the big news, we put an offer in on a house.  It’s a great place, up in Blaine.  We both really like the house.  We’ll see how it plays out.  We know there was another bid in on the house.  So we tried to play the balancing game of making our bid just a tid sweeter than the other one, without giving away the farm.  We first saw the house on Tuesday.  After looking at it we pretty much knew we wanted to buy it.  We had our parents come down on Thursday and look at it with us.  They know more of what to look for than we do, and it was good that they came.  They have the wisdom of a few more years, and of buying and fixing up a few more houses than we do.  They pointed out some good things.

We talked about it over dinner on Thursday night and decided that we would make an offer and Friday morning we went to the realtor’s office and put in the offer.  The house is owned by the bank, and it could take a while to hear from them.  We put in there they had to get back to us by 4:30 pm on Thursday.  So we’ll know by then.

Today I did something I haven’t done for over a year.  I was in a parade for my friend Rep. Kurt Zellers.  It was fun to do a parade again.  It was a little different to be on the sticker side of it rather than being the one to be out shaking hands, etc.  But I really enjoyed it.  It was a great day out there, the weather was nice.  Not too hot.  A good time.

I just got done making an apple crisp, and it’s in the oven.  It’s starting to smell pretty good I must say.  We bought a bag of fresh apples at the store the other day.  It was a good choice.  Fall is starting to come, and the fall foods/beverages are right around the corner.  I’m liking that!

Yesterday we had a chance to go to Bethel and visit with some of our friends in the ITS world there.  That was good times.  It was nice to be able to get back and talk to them.  We haven’t had the chance to do that lately.  Things are different there.  I still know some of the TA’s, but the full time staff seems to be turning over rather quickly.  But it was good times, and we went out to lunch.  We enjoyed seeing everyone!

That’s all I’ve got for the moment.  I should do some homework.  That’s right, I started my Masters program on Tuesday.  It’s going well, but I find it a little weird to be doing homework again.

More tomorrow…