What? I'm caught up???

This weekend was particularily productive. I'm actually to the point where I can deal with things as I get them and think about doing those little projects I had to put off. For example, David and I took this picture for Christmas cards that we never ended up sending out.

My Favorite Place - The Backyard

I will miss our backyard greatly! Luckily it's been highly documented through photoshoots and dance films!

This only half of our backyard - that's fenced. We have another acrea behind the barn.

The barn is flanked by towering crepe myrtles that was probably original to the property. I love that nobody topped them to make small bushes. They're perfectly majestic!

Over the years, as we cleared the backyard, we found some old tools and collected them in the barn. I often tried to imagine what they were used for and who used them.

The barn near sundown.

Last bit of interior pictures

And now - I think I'm finished taking pictures of the interior.

Guest Room/Office

My favorite pillow in the guest room.

Master Bedroom

Master Bedroom leading to the Master Bath

Master Bath



Some people have galley kitchens. We have a galley bathroom.

Living Room fireplace

Interior Pics of the House

Here a few pics of the house as I accumulate them. We had someone look at the house yesterday, but so far - no offer. If David could decide on the storage options, staging the house might look a little different. Oh well. All in good time.

Big Range Austin Dance Festival Rehearsals

Here are some pics from rehearsals.

On the Market - Curb Appeal

The house is officially on the market! Pictures are not yet posted to the realtor website, but here are a few from my own camera.

Quote for the day

I found this quote to share:

"The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods." - Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior, 1976

While it's a wonderful thought to make things look like a graceful display of effortlessness, I don't think anyone is going to confuse me with being favored by the gods. The curb appeal projects wrapped up Tuesday, May 19th and FINALLY, this morning around 1am, all the painting was FINISHED! Yeah! Now a massive cleanup today and the house will be on the market tomorrow, Sat, May 23rd.

Pictures to follow soon!

A little Midnight Gardening

Alas I am almost finished with the patio and all its gardening goodness. I took my camera out of its case and the batteries were dead. I still need to clean the patio furniture anyway.

And now it is off to bed.
12 minutes past midnight.
Over and out....

A Slew of Activity

I can't believe how much work I still have left to do before putting the house on the market. Crud. I'm making the most of my time though - work during the day, take care of personal details during lunch, yard work once I get home till the sun starts going down and then working on painting projects till late. (Luckily I wrapped up the videos and Motor Dance business.) I have a week and a half to finish up and stage the house. Awwwww! And I thought producing a performance was tight. At least David and I are still smiling. A part of me wishes for the simpler days when every weekend was filled with the enjoyable kind of gardening.

Organizin' and Cleanin'

While I've been positioned square in front of a computer or laptop all day cleaning up files and organizing all these video files, David has been cleaning up. I didn't realize that our deck was made of actual wood!

I've made some headway on the videos - still 1 of the 4 left to complete. For now though, I'm going to take a break to get ready for Megan and Michelle's arrival for dinner and debriefing. They made this stellar piece of art. It chronicles our three years together and it brings tears of joy to my eyes. Thanks!

Still plugging away....

I'd really like more time to finish video work and paperwork!

Preliminary Video Passes

I've started going through the videos from the Light the Lamp show. Here are some still shots I pulled. In order - "Retrospect", "See Ya in the Funny Papers" and "Don't Hold Your Breath." (Jess Purviance - photography)

Home

Okay, so the painting projects are going slow. Today I finished priming the bathroom walls, but still a lot to do there. I'd rather be hanging out with Pai.

Show's over but new adventures are just beginning

The Motor Dance show, "Light the Lamp" was April 18th. It's always amazing to me that after a show, there's still so much work left to do to wrap up the whole ordeal - thank you's to patrons, compiling video documentation for the show, balancing the books and then planning what to do next. Well, here it is - two weeks after the show - and I still have thank you's and video work to do. But this year, things are different. Planning what to do next is quite complex this time around. I have been accepted to the MFA Dance and Technology program at The Ohio State University. The Wexner Center has just offered me a Graduate Administrative Assistantship in their Youth Programs. This is extremely exciting! And all this begins this summer. I hope to be moving to Columbus in July - two short months away. I still have things to wrap up with Motor, but I also need to sell our house, pack and find housing and keep my day job going somehow. Lots going on!

In any case, I am striving to update my blog daily as a means to process all that's going on. We'll see how this goes!