Okay this is just a cover-my-rear post until some pix come together. Leann, Eleanor and I bought a house last year. Since August we've been living in a pre-WW1-era home in North Minneapolis' Jordan neighborhood. Together with Leann's family and a few stalwart friends and neighbors, we've been busy as ants making our house a home. Pictures are forthcoming. Also there's a new picture of Eleanor who is in a pre-K program and part-time daycare at Calvary Lutheran Church in Golden Valley. The picture is blindingly cute.

We are basically happy, though we work very hard and that makes it harder to find, and cling to, our tenuous balance with the world.