Sunday morning post

Sunday mornings seem to be an opportune time for me to post. Quiet, available time and access to the computer, I guess.

Steph and I went over to Matt and Sarah's new house last night. They have been in a whirlwind of cleaning, painting, refurbishing, carpeting and finally moving in this past week. This is the energy that young(er) people bring to such a project: Matt and Sarah both worked all day Tuesday (?), and moved all their furniture and stuff from about 7 p.m. until about 3 in the morning. They slept for a couple of hours and then got up and went to work. Arrrgh! Makes me feel exhausted just thinking about it!

Their house is a simple ranch, probably about 800 sq. ft . You walk directly into the living room, with a eat-in kitchen behind that. From the living room, there is also a hallway leading to three bedrooms and a bath. From the kitchen there is a slider with steps leading down into an addition probably about 15' x 15'. This has a slate-looking ceramic tile floor, vaulted ceiling, windows around the entire perimeter and a nice big hot tub that came with the house. There is another slider from there that leads out to the back yard.

So, yesterday was a surprise birthday party for Matt as well as a quasi housewarming party. Matt turned 24.

Steph and I met Sarah's parents, Hope and Sean. They are from the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area. Sarah has a much younger brother, Cory, who is about eight, I think. Nice people and appear to be very supportive of Sarah and Matthew.

We drank beer, ate grilled burgers and hot dogs, and a bunch of us watched the St. Joe / Oklahoma State thriller that ended with Okey State winning. Yeah! Helps my brackets, which are covered with the red of corrected mis-pickings (if there is such a word?).