Tuesday, August 29, 2006

House update

Well, we bought a house.
After looking at a bunch of houses prior to our holiday, returning back and looking at a few more, we made an offer on a house on Lipton street. It's a 3 bedroom house with a little office on the main floor. Kitchen and bathroom are remodeled, main floor is tile and hardwood floor (don't want carpets with our pooches), and there is a front porch and a back deck. Electricity and plumbing have both been updated. Need to complete the fencing next summer, and do a couple of minor repairs, but the big things are already done.
We don't take possession for a couple of months (Oct 28), so you won't see any pics of the house until then.

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Swimming Lessons

Nathanael completed his summer swimming lessons this week. Didn't pass level one, but he did swim in the deep end without screamnig his head off. As long as he's wearing the life jacket, he's willing to do it. We'll have to sign him up for lessons over the winter and keep working at swimming in the shallow end without the jacket.

Friday, August 11, 2006

Catch up.... kind of

Been playing with flickr since we returned from Alberta. Wanted to find a way to put pictures on the Internet so that my parents and sister could see them easily. Now I find out that Mom can't view them at work. Oh well. Maybe after she retires...:-( Dad's not a techie at all... but we are working on him.

For anyone interested, the link to the tags page is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/budlong/tags/

Some neat tags to check out would be:

GrandmaGrandpas - Nathan - there are pics of the boys here. More to come.
Orfflevelone2006 - pictures from orff course.
Liptonstreethouse - saw this house last week and are considering buying it. It's a nice house West of Arlington in the West End. Still close to downtown and closer to Nathanael's school than where we are now.

I will still put pictures on here, but if I have a whole bunch, like these ones, I'll post the link or the tag.