Well nearly a month ago I entered our last posting and now as I sit here in Lovell at the end of a beautiful 70 degree Maine summer day, there is much to say. We continue to ready the house for sale and have been very busy of late refinishing wood flooring, repainting rooms, installing trim, and doing landscaping work while our hired crew toils in the nearly completed basement remodel. It will be exciting to see it all finished and actually put back together soon. We have many things packed up and moved to storage that will remain in boxes until the move to Boothbay after we return from Kaz. The house has been easy to pack, but the shop will be another matter. There are several thousand pounds of machinery and tools, and I don't know how many board feet of wood about the place, not to mention the two sailboats, Kubota tractor/backhoe and the Deere mower. It will be a complicated move.

But alas the moving destination is set. We closed on our new house last Friday and take posession of the house on 06 August. I have added some pictures of the house above.

So as I mentioned, Friday morning we closed on our new house. Well also on Friday we heard from our adoption agency that if we had plans over the fourth of July we might want to reconsider them. It turns out that there is a good chance that we will actually be on our way to Kaz on the 4th! It is not yet definite, but we should know for sure in the next 24-48 hours. These are exciting times around here. It was a stressful weekend, with tempered excitement and anxiousness dancing in our heads. What would we hear this week? Will it happen so soon? Are we ready? When we thought we would be gone in June, we pretended to be prepared. When our time line moved out to August we took a sigh of relief mixed with dissappointment and called it a good thing, now to have it jump back a few months caught us off guard yet again. There are many unexpected and unforeseeable twists and turns in international adoption. This is our latest.

So right now we are awaiting the call. I won't say too much more before that, but would recommend checking back in a day or two to see the latest. Things could really take off here on this blog, or they could recede as they did last month. It should all become clearer soon. Stay tuned. Take Care