Last night Derek moved his sewing kit home which include a fantastic button jar that Nanie put together for him, from clothing that she took apart.  I found two buttons suitable for my bag, and buttoned it up.  There will be photos later today, but its a busy one right now.  I’m heading to Idaho tomorrow afternoon, so there’s a lot of cleaning, laundering and packing going on here.  This site will switch over to the new host sometime while I’m gone, so it’ll be down for 24-48 hours, depending on how long it takes the DNS to update.

Back to Idaho.  I’m going for field school, and I’m driving down with three other women from the program.  I’ve only met one of them, and she’s great, I’ll meet the other two at 6.30 tonight, as we’re getting together for coffee or ice cream (we had discussed beer, but while 3 of us are grad students, the 4th is only 19–she’s an HP Minor and is getting her B.Arch at the same time). At any rate, we’ll leave tomorrow afternoon, drive a couple-few hours to Cascade Locks in the Columbia River Gorge, and stay there overnight with people that one of the girls knows.  There was also a possibility of her friends getting us free hotel rooms, which would be neat.  Then around 6am Sunday the four of us will pile back into the car for another 10-12 hours of driving to arrive in Harriman State Park around 5pm.  We’ll be there for a week, actively rehabing historic buildings and visiting Yellowstone.  I’m getting very excited.

Someone outside is listening to bad, irritating metal and I’ve just overheard that 13 apartments are moving out this months.  That’s a lot of people, although not even half of what live here.  I’m wondering why so many all at once, and pondering if it has anything to do with the fact that in the month of August the  apartment manager scolded people about having unauthorized pets, and told us that if they weren’t gotten rid of or the $300 cat deposit paid, that they would be asked to give a 30 day notice. Hmmm. I love this apartment complex, another guess about why so many now is that there are quite a few students and so with school starting again, they may be moving in with friends elsewhere in town.  

Other doings in my life is that Derek told me on Wednesday that he broke a wisdom tooth.  He then went to the dentist yesterday morning and they had to crack what remained of the tooth into 7 bits, and the cut them out.  He was swollen, in pain, and mostly unhappy about it when he got here last night, so I set about making him a supper that consisted of mashed potatoes, applesauce, scrambled eggs and orange sherbert.  Then we both went to bed early so I could get up early this morning and get going…And on that note…I’m going to get going…