Monday, May 12, 2008

New house! Nic's Mum! Meningitis! Oh my!

For all those who had been wondering, Nic is
a) not dead
b) better
c) up and running
d) rude and irreverant

His Mum wasn't convinced of it all either, so she came over to look after him and give him a big hug. Here is the ocular proof!


Of course, the best thing for a person recovering from meningitis to do is to move house about 2 weeks after they get out of hospital. Although we'd originally planned for Nic to pick up the massive doghouse with his little finger (Nic being a handsome, muscular adonis prior to the meningitis, as he keeps maintaining), he was reduced to but a shadow of his former self, so we enlisted a large team of men to help out. Or maybe a team of large men. Anyway, there were six of them.



The new house is lovely. It is all of 2 blocks from the old one, but on a much quieter street. The street is pretty and full of trees and cute cottages. The house is probably from the 1940s, wooden floors, lots of windows... and lovely Jo bought us new couches for our gorgeous new lounge room.

Nic has been very busy doing useful things in the backyard. So far they are all dog related. We are putting in a fence to keep her in her place, and Nic has been finishing the siding on the doghouse.
We have been keeping Jo entertained as best we can : ) We took a lovely trip up to Asheville and enjoyed the mountains in Spring.



Nic also took Jo to a lacrosse game. I spent the afternoon helping another friend move house, using my wonderful experience gained when moving our house ...

And, finally, me modelling my exciting new Funkadelic t-shirt after Nic and I went to George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic.

"The most unbelievably funky thing I've ever seen" -- Nic George

Unfortunately he was referring to George Clinton, not to me in my t-shirt.