October 5, 2010

A New Home

After nearly three months of living in Chicago I have finally mustered up the motivation to update the blog. Please hold the applause. We no longer live on, or anywhere near, a Mesa....so the old name had to go. Instead, we reference what many locals proudly call The Third Coast. Living along the shores of Lake Michigan will surely provide us with windy, icy, miserable winters, but for the time being we will remain focused on summer afternoons spent staring out upon the glittering fresh water undulating under a wispy-clouded blue sky. Whatever the weather, the fact that we live in the third-largest metropolitan area in the country will undoubtedly provide us with a diversity of experiences and opportunities.

Unfortunately our computer crashed a couple of weeks ago, taking with it some pictures of our early days here in Chicago. Let this be a reminder to you, back up all of your treasured files! We were lucky to recover the photos, music, and documents that we did. This was also an opportunity for us to upgrade our desktop computer, which we gladly did, and we have been thoroughly enjoying our new Mac.

In these past several weeks we have been busy getting to know our new home, our new neighborhood, and our new city! Besides going out for meals and nights on the town; we have been catching up with old friends and family, enjoyed Chicago's Summer Street Fests (including Retro on Roscoe), saw live music, joined an open-minded spiritual community (Second Unitarian Church of Chicago), spent time in Michigan with our family, became a one-car family, and ran 5k races to support two causes we care a great deal about, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. There were TONS of people at both events, and we enjoyed doing a little running for such great organizations. Next physical challenge, climbing the Sears (a.k.a Willis) Tower's 103 floors (2,109 steps) in order to benefit the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, a "tall" order to say the least.

Here are some pictures documenting what we have been up to in our new digs...

This sign proclaims your entry into our neighborhood....Roscoe Village

Walkway to our "Coach House"

Our Coach House

Interior. Enjoying wood floors and high ceilings.

Our Composting Worm Farm!!!

EL Tracks

Our cross streets

EL Train


Race for the Cure...In honor of Anna MacDonald and Janet Pridemore!!!


We took a weekend afternoon to check out one of Chicago's Forest Preserves just a few miles from our house....Lots of green space, fishing ponds, trails, and hills.




My favorite picture on a beautiful day

Sold the Hyundai! We are now a one-car family!!!


Token Clover Picture