The All-New Bunrab

Well, the roof is replaced. And the eaves/sofits and the gutters, and a few bits of the siding trim. Energy-efficient white shingles, that will get us an energy tax credit on our next income tax return.

And Fern bunny is fine, after the application of quite a bit of money at the veterinarian.

All of which is to say, we're not going anywhere this summer. No RG in Pittsburgh, sorry M-friends. No Knit and Crochet Show in Buffalo. Nowhere that we can't drive to within a couple of hours and stay at someone's house for free.

We are fixing up the other house for sale, since we haven't had much luck renting it - it goes on the market in a week and a half. A bit of interior paint, repairs to the sidewalk, replace a couple doors, stuff like that. We won't get what we paid for it; we bought it at the peak of the market, and that's not going to come again any time this ten years. But we should clear enough on it, if all goes well, to pay off the mortgage on the current house, replenish savings that were depleted by the new roof, and maybe, just maybe, enough to let us replace the pink bathtub with something we can stand to look at with our glasses on. There's no chance it would be sold and closed on in time to use the money for any of the afore-mentioned summer travel, though.

Anyway, that's what's been happening around here lately. I've gotten in a bit of reading, some crocheting and knitting, and have written some reviews for the Tea Review Blog -check out the blog here:
http://www.teareviewblog.com/
and a few of my reviews, specifically, here:
http://www.teareviewblog.com/?author=27

And, just so this has a bit more content, a picture of the most recent sweater I finished:



I've already worn this one a couple times and people seem to like the little sunflower, even though squirrel_magnet says it looks like a large-winged insect has landed on me.

Since squirrel_magnet has already recounted the end of our adventure of visiting the Homewood House Museum on the Johns Hopkins campus, I won't repeat that part. I'll just mention that although the "Fur, Feathers, and Fins: Pets in Early Maryland" exhibit was small, it was interesting; we enjoyed it, and talking with the tour guides (and interrupting one of them leading a group, to explain more than she knew about *why* Franklin stoves are better than plain old fireplaces for heating a room, and threw in a bit about Rumsford to boot.) In the gift shop, we bought several CDs of colonial-era music. There's going to be an interesting concert of Renaissance music at the house next month that we'd like to attend. Must investigate bus travel, for pete's sake.