A Very Busy Summer

Lots and lots of events and happenings have taken place since arriving in our new home here on Main Street in Madrid. Buying furniture, moving cabinets, rearranging rooms, taking wallpaper down, learning that cleaning this house is a lot more work than cleaning a 5-room apartment! Currently, I have chairs and boxes littering the front hallway. And no, it is not because I was too lazy to unpack for two months ago. It's because we already have a HUGE project happening on the back of our house. Oh, but that's another event and another LONG story.

But, some things don't change. Strong Starbucks coffee still greets me every morning, a quiet home, and dishes that need to be washed. But, those are the things I like; the things I can count on to maintain themselves in my life. (Assuming I don't forget to buy the coffee and dish detergent!)

Last week I looked around my salon that I will be leaving in 4 more work-days and I found tears making their way down my cheeks. "Don't cry, shop-girl, don't cry." So much for having nerves of steel. We escorted all of the equipment out of the salon yesterday and I refused to look back at the emptiness I am leaving.

So, to make something a little more "fun" in our lives, we bought a dog. And we have another one coming in two weeks. Crazy people? Yes. That we are. We went to look at the little pup we are going to be getting in two weeks and ended up walking away with one that was ready now. Mozart and Bach are our new additions. Mozart is a German Shorthaired Pointer and he is so very cute. Very, very social - doesn't like us to leave him alone in a room. I am now anxious to get his play-mate hoping it will make me a little more "dispensable" to him and that I won't be tripping over him every move I make. Although, I will admit I have grown very fond of having a tag along as I do my regular house chores and meanderings.

Today I run out to do hair for a wedding and then over to a family reunion at my in-laws camp. The world keeps turning, doesn't it?