
I am on page 681--how behind is that?
fun to read all the conversations though.

I'm packing!
Friday I got the suitcases out of our storage closet across the hall from our condo door. DH needed one for his business trip. He left Saturday morning and is in Portland Oregon. He will be back at midnight Tuesday.
Saturday I got the cruise box down and emptied the "stuff that stays in the suitcases because I might want it the next time I take a trip" and spread it on my bed.
I packed DH's

costume, mine and my other dinner clothes, snorkels, masks and fins, miscellaneous stuff for the cruise and our WDW stay at Boardwalk before hand. Two suitcases are done and standing by the door. A third is getting there. I cannot do any more until I know which golf shirts DH wants to bring--we do that disgustingly cute thing and wear matching shirts as often as possible.
The suitcases are not the huge kind--I don't want to have to lug them around--the smaller two are carry-on size and the two larger ones are the size some people take as small. My carry on is getting ready too.
Our Governor's Residence was rehabed this year with volunteer labor, materials and cash donations. It was open for tours for a couple days this weekend. I had three friends who wanted to go, could not go the same days so I went through three times. It is nicely done, timeless style, very appropriate for a Governor's Residence that should last through many administrations. Before they started it was not in good shape. Superficial stuff had been done--like when they needed to fix the plumbing in the bathrooms, they laid new pipes on the FLOOR

and then laid a new floor on top of that so there was a 6 inch step up to go into every bathroom

Now it has been fixed right. Brand new appliances donated by GE. Granite countertop donated by some famous company. A grand piano made in Indiana donated by the company in Elkhart. Books by Indiana authors in the library--all donated. Some first editions. ETC

AMAZING!! Everyone pulled together. So neat to see it all done right and decorated with flair

Makes one proud to be a Hoosier--and I am from New York.
Jan
