First Weekend of Spring

When I think of spring, I think of this:

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It's supposedly springtime around here, too, but there's no daffodils around to let anybody know about it.  

Today it looked like THIS outside: 

How come everybody wants to visit us in the summertime? Nobody wants to see Alaska between October and May for some reason! :)

Despite the snow (which is melting off the deck right now even as it comes down, so it's not as horrible as it might seem), we're having a great weekend.  Monday is Seward's Day which means that for these two state workers, we get a three day weekend.  Thanks for buying Alaska, William Seward!

Today we're hanging around the house continuing to put stuff away and make this house more of a home.  We've both been pretty under the weather for the past two weeks and spending most of our spare time getting the rest of our crap out of the OLD house, so it feels great to finally be productive at home.

Ripley continues to keep watch.

Fro remembers that she missed our furniture, especially the coffee table with the weird bar at the bottom.  Perfect chin height!  (Why is it that both of them find the weight of their own heads so unbearable?)

The cats would LOVE to go outside.  It's fun to tease them with a tiny window to freedom:

Desperate!

This is Zeus' "stop teasing us" face (please ignore the camera strap):

Fro also enjoys the dining room table.  Many chairs to sit at, and a great view out the window.

Here's the view she's checking out:

Redpoll! The previous owners installed an awesome bear attracter bird feeder, outside the dining room window which the cats LOVE.  Fro spent hours staring at birds today and lunging at the window. 

As mentioned before, Ripley also loves the windows.  He was pretty disappointed that we spent most of the day organizing our stuff and not catering to his every whim, so he just looked out the window with his saddest face on.  To our defense, we took him to the high school to play frisbee this morning, as we also did three other times this week - a trip that involves a 2 mile roundtrip walk plus frisbee fun.  I cannot tell you how much happier we all are that we can take him out by foot and not have to jump in the car to go play.  The walks are doing all of us some good, too.  

Hopefully we'll get enough done this weekend that I can put some pictures of the house up on the blog.  We haven't painted yet, so the before and afters won't be super dramatic, but once we're more settled, we'll slap some paint on the walls.  I'm sure Andy can't wait!