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Last night Christina, Cale, and I went to Potter’s Lake and walked around it. We were looking for frogs and turtles and whatever other critters wanted to make a showing. As we passed the halfway point around the water, we saw a little boy standing about twenty feet up the hill. Closer to the water stood his mother, fishing rod in hand and bent over, clearly in distress.

She looked up and saw us and asked us for help. She had caught a frog with her lure. As we neared, she quietly said that she was trying to pretend to fish and didn’t intend to catch anything. I came closer and tried to get the frog, but it jumped and made the most horrifying croak I’d ever heard. I finally got it in my hands and tried to remove the hook from its mouth… but to no avail. The brightly colored bait had done its job; the frog had fully expected a technicolor meal.

Eventually we pried its mouth open and tried, again unsuccessfully, to remove the metal from its jaw.

Finally, the woman who had snared her first frog with a rod and reel bit the line to break it at the lure and we released the frog to the water. Considering how well it swam away, I think it was more or less happy just to be rid of us.

I felt sad about that whole event and even now could cry if I sat and thought about it hard enough.

Well, we’ve moved into our very own home. I hope to have some pictures to show you eventually. This weekend was an absolute whirlwind and I’m still spinning from it. Five of my coworkers/friends, one spouse of a coworker, and one friend from outside of work came to our old house and within two hours had moved practically everything we own to the new one.

Given that the temperature at 19:30 was above 95 degrees Farenheit, I’m pretty sure we’d done the entire move during the hottest day of the year to that point. Ouch.

We’re in the process of unpacking at the new place and cleaning the old place.

I’m tired.

That is all.

This is Yet Another New House Update. If you find these dull, stop reading this post now.

Things are progressing nicely at the new house. The bedrooms are just about ready for paint, several more electrical outlets and fixtures are now grounded, and the lawn has been mowed again. Woo.

Things left to do: Paint bedrooms, paint master bathroom, paint hallway, paint kitchen, rewire electrical outlets in boys’ bedrooms, patch duct that rusted through in the crawl space, move all our stuff over, live.

The phone lines are supposed to be switched over today. DSL should go up by Monday, so I’ll need to move the computer over soon. We’ll probably lose internet connectivity today, but that’s just a guess… I have no idea what’ll really happen.

If you want to come over and paint, I’m sure we can hook you up.