We finally got our asses moved! At least enough that we're now sleeping in our new house. What a relief! We still have a lot of stuff left to move before our new house is really home, but we do have enough to get by. The biggest remaining hurdles are moving the rest of Ruth's workroom for her businesses (links at right), and our 4,000+ volume library, but both of those thing will have much more space in our new house.
One of the perks of living in the ranch house is we'll no longer have an hour's worth of driving each day, so we should have a little more time for hobbies and blogging and such. I also want to start taking my Nikon out with me more, because it'll be so much more convenient; I hope to get some interesting pics pretty soon.
Ruth's pregnancy is going swimmingly. Apart from stomach pain (round ligament pain for those of you in the know), and horrible pain in her posterior. I try to be sympathetic, but being the dumb-ass that I am I usually fail and just wind up being pathetic. But the pains do seems to be getting better, and besides, she's a strong woman--if she can survive eight years of being married to me, she can survive pregnancy easily.
We did have a little bit of an interesting time the first night we stayed in our new house. This being Montana, it was, of course, as cold as hell (didn't know hell was cold? check out Dante's Inferno). But, no matter, I'm used to sub zero weather, right. That is until, on the first night living in your new home your wife wakes you up at around 1:30 a.m. to sweetly inform you that the electricity is off. When the power is off and it is 10F below, the furnace doesn't run and sooner or later the pipes freeze. Okay, we have a backup generator, except it is outside in a shed and won't start when it is this cold. Well, we also have kerosene heaters, which would work, if only they had fuel. So in the end I took the only option for a man like me to take; I got back in bed with my wife and laid there worrying about what to do until a little over an hour later the power came back on. And although the house did get pretty cold, there were no frozen pipes, and I think all the house plants survived. It is simply amazing how many crises can be averted by laying in bed with your wife and waiting for the problem to go away.