Loose Ends

We have been spending time tying up some loose ends.  Rick has worked hard to make sure that all of the mail is in order for transfer back up north, and he has taken care of routes, hotels, insurance, water on and water off, and the thousands of other little details that go along with closing one house and opening up another.

Last night we took a walk down by the Marina after dinner, and Rick stopped for an ice cream cone.  We sat on the patio of the ice cream shop while he ate the cone, and I had to take a picture of the under side of the umbrella under which we were sitting.  It made me smile.

The underside of the umbrella at the ice cream
shop shows blue skies and fluffy clouds.

We found a small picture in the consignment/ decorator's shop that we like downtown when we stopped in yesterday.  We went back today to buy it.  The frame was really old even though the watercolor is newly painted by a local artist.

The new picture in the old, dark frame.

The newly framed print in our hallway.

Rick did not like the frame, so we went to JoAnn Fabrics to buy a new frame.  We chose white to match the decor of the house.  Perhaps the darker frame brought out certain colors in the painting more, but the white works with our woodwork, too.

I finished the puzzle I was working on and will return it to Chris' house before we go back north.  Rick warped the loom and is trying his hand at it. So far the results are not positive.  He does not like the tension nor the mechanism on our small table loom, so a new loom may be in our future if we can sell this one.

We are ready to head north.  Storms continue to rage across the United States, so we are hoping that we will get back to Wisconsin safely.