Four Corners

There's an interesting spot in the southwestern United States where the corners of four states all meet.

It's the only spot in the entire US where this happens so of course there's a monument there and enterprising Navajo Indians charge a small admission fee to go stand on the exact spot where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all meet.

FFM thought this whole stop was pretty good stuff.

Dashing Through the Snow

I am not a one horse open sleigh, but my blessed mother-in-law is.
There's not enough snow on the sledding hill to go sledding right now, but she and FFM really wanted to try out the sled, so out they went.

That's the face of hysterical laughter if you can't tell. And yes, those are front yards. Just wait until there's enough snow to go down a slope, there won't be any stopping these two.

Countdown

I think the countdown clock is going faster now.
Hooray :)

A Happy State

Well, if MSN says it, it must be true.
We live in a happy state. But not as happy as Wyoming.

According to MSN:
"Here are the top 10 states and their average well-being scores (out of a possible 100 points):"
Utah: 69.2
Hawaii: 68.2
Wyoming: 68
Colorado: 67.3
Minnesota: 67.3
Maryland: 67.1
Washington: 67.1
Massachusetts: 67
California: 67
Arizona: 66.8

Oh, people, how did we let WYOMING edge us out? Hawaii, OK, I get that. Utah, yeah, well, they have mountains, Mormons, retirees, and really laid back folks, and pretty much the same weather we have here. Maybe it's time to move to Wyoming. Or Hawaii. Yeah, as soon as I'm tired of Colorado I'll pick one of those two places to move to.

For the entire article and the actual scientific process of how they figured this out plus where your state landed, click HERE.

Least happiest state, West Virgina. Sorry West Viginians, check out Wyoming. It's got a lot of room.

Oh How I Love to Sit

The sofas are coming, the sofas are coming!!! Finally, we will have some furniture to sit on in our poor little house. Other than the folding camp chairs I've been using, that it. As soon our offer was accepted on this house I started furniture shopping in earnest, but buying 'real' furniture means ordering it, which means waiting for it to be built and delivered.

Everything I ordered is built here in the US, so I suspect that the current job scene means that furniture factories might be running on a smaller than normal staff, which means our furniture has been extra slow to come. We did get some hard goods delivered already back in late October, a new kitchen table and the tables for our living room, but nothing to sit on. Travis needs to help pick out the chairs for the kitchen table, we learned long ago that since he's so much taller than me we like very different chairs. Currently F and I sit on folding chairs in the kitchen, too. And the sofas, well they just took a while. I also have a new chair for our family room on order that should be here just in time for Christmas and will pick up one more chair for the family room in a couple weeks.

I did do a little happy dance when the delivery call came, now just to work out a time they can get into the house...