New Name

Found this today and thought it was quite funny. It is appropriate as the joke back in Indiana is that you will always come across a hillbilly, as Tyler would say HB, or two when out.So ~ here is my new name for our return. Go on, try it for yourself.....I bet you spend a lot of time on the website playing with the quizzes etc. I know I did.

Your Hillbilly Name Is...

Molly Sue Birmingham

Hillbilly Name Generator

By Request....

I have received requests wanting to see the house so here you go.....I will post more once we have the inspection.

Yahoooooooo....

I am thrilled to say our offer on the house has been ACCEPTED!! Now we just need to have the inspections etc and we are good to go.

I cannot belive it...we are 1 big step closer to our move back to the US. I will post photos once the inspections and other paperwork is complete.

For Kathy...

A week or so ago in a post on Kathy's blog I made a comment about Gordon Ramsey and I had a story to tell about him. Well, she reminded me that I need to make the post about that and I am sure she is thinking it is really much more exciting that what is really is but anyway.....here you go.

One of our TV stations is doing a 'cooking' think the month of January and Gordon Ramsey is involved in it. This Friday there will be a real-time, live cookalong show with him. You can get all the details here and there are even cooking masterclasses you can watch online too! The gist is that good family cooking can be easy and tasty at the same time. The menu for this program looks very good and I will be cooking along too!

So basically, the story is YOU can cook with Gordon in your own home. See, I told you...not very exciting!

Oh so Cozy

I read about this in a newspaper article from Columbus Indiana, where will be moving back to, and had to share. This is such a NEAT idea and I am hoping it really takes off and a certain someone, hint hint, will go and take photos and post them on her blog. I can't wait to see the finished projects.

The details of the project are as follows: Participants will be assigned a tree on a designated street in downtown and will knit a blanket to cover the first 5 feet of the trunk. On Feb. 22 the blankets will be knitted together to form a tube around the tree. The city expects the cozies to remain on the trees a maximum of eight weeks. During that time the public can vote for their favorite cozy. The winners will receive a donation to their charity of choice.

How COOL is that???

Photo Credit: Paige Harden, the Republic Newspaper

Here We Go...

Well I can happily say we have started the new house negotiations! Oh my goodness......our initial offer has been submitted to the home owner and it is now in his hands. We fully expect a counter offer as we did not offer him full price and the home has only been on the market for 2 weeks. I am hoping that a 'meeting of the minds' will occur and by the end of this week we will be one step closer to life in the US again.

Once again we seem to be buying or selling a house when we are away ~ this time, rather than being on vacation, Tim is away on business in China :-} Go figure.!!

Sticker Shock!!

OK...I guess I am a bit naive when it comes to the price of kitchen appliances and was SHOCKED to see what it could possibly cost me to put new stuff in our new house ~ {you know, the one we don't have yet and won't know until we see paperwork and formally submit and offer} ~ so of course I have started my 'research' just in case.

WOW is all I can say...I wasn't even looking at the top of the line stuff and I was coming up with a price tag of over $4000, not $400 but $4000 and that doesn't even include counter tops, sink or a faucet. OUCH!! Oh well, I guess we will just have to get beyond that and think about the end result. At least that is what I am telling myself, I cannot wait to hear what Tim has to say about it. I sure hope Sears or Home Depot have some great sales this spring so I can actually get it all at once.