Through a Scanner Darkly
Entry 1 The Week Ahead, The Week Before We make payment via wire today on the home. Over the weekend we signed all the final paperwork. The notary was from Sumner, and was clearly afraid of the city--so cliche that Aesop captured the phenomenon 2500 years ago in the fable of the City Mouse and The Country Mouse . Wow. We get the keys tomorrow at 5. We will bring a few boxes with us, and my coffee maker, which was too big for the current kitchen. We went and walked the property over the weekend. It's lovely. I am pretty sure that it used to be a farm back in the day. I came upon an old plum tree at the back of the yard, that had tiny yellow plums, the size of a thumbnail. They were sweet and delicious. I have every reason to believe that the property to the south of us, covered in Himalayan blackberry bramble, likely has many more fruit trees. Packing is a slow process. We have packed more boxes than I care to admit. Yeste...