Don’t come and visit us, we have concluded that we are bad luck for travelers. You will either not be allowed into the country and treated like a criminal, or get poisoned and miss your bus to Washington. Chris and Tim, we’re sorry. So since you won’t get to experience the mundane drudgery of our lives in person we will do all we can to bring it to you on the blog and, lets face it, we have since the beginning.
Today we bought furniture. Whilst waiting for Tim to post a guitar we found a cool second hand store called Hand-me-ups . Unlike most second hand stores they had some good things in good condition. We found a cool old table and chairs, sideboard and coffee tables for a grand total of $400 (including delivery!). As part of the deal we even got to speak with the lovely old guy who ran the furniture department. We’ll post pictures of our haul as soon as it all arrives. We are feeling much better set up now, considering that we only had two chairs before - when Tim was here one person had to sit on the stairs to eat breakfast.
Less mundanely, due to the high price of fresh food here we are going to start a vegetable garden. This involves growing things inside coz the frost’ll get ‘em otherwise (this is Nic typing as Sal dictates, and that is what she just said). Bring it orn indoor tomehtoes! Any way, we have a room on the top floor of our house with big south-facing windows that is consequently warm and bright, so they should grow well. The room also has leopard-print wall paper, but that’s another story and probably won’t help the veggies grow.
Whilst we spend a lot of time writing about our house we do actually have friends, or at least people who tolerate our presence. We joined our friends Lucas and Jamie at their house last night for an evening of good old-fashioned badger-state fun, Lucas and Jamie being from Wisconsin. We have a picture to prove it, how about that eh! And just to let you know that we really are cool we’re going to another friends house tomorrow to play ping pong (please note, this is Sal’s idea).
Nic and Sal.
The party at Lucas and Jamie's
2 comments:
Not to worry. You can come and see me in Canada next time I'm in the northern hemisphere. How's that Qat book eh? It's kind of interesting, but not exatcly an enthralling travelouge.
Phylogenetics of Qat eh? That's almost so crazy it could work. If it weren't in such a crazy armpit of the world...
Hey I didn't die, thats the main thing. I would have had an interesting dilemma if I didn't have friends to look after me.
Tim.
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