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I really don’t want to get ahead of myself here, there’s a LOT still to go through, but we may have hosted the buyers for The Cottage during our open house today. The potential buyers already live in the neighborhood, and are looking to place grandma here…which would then put her a very short walk from her young grandsons.

Simultaneously, the SW house seems to have a one year lease about to be signed. If true, then we wouldn’t move back in until March 2010.

I wonder how cool a place we can find to rent short-term so as to make this all a short-term adventure? We could just pay the mortgage and let the rental income be our budget for our rental place….in theory.

Like I said, there’s a lot that still has to happen. But its nice to have some significant and measurable progress underway again!

Wienermobile Visits the Neighborhood!

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was in the neighborhood last week. I discovered it as I drove home from work, parked just outside Coopers Coffee on Stark, near SE 61st.

So as I coasted down the hill toward home, I phoned C and asked that the kids be waiting outside in the alley as I pulled up -- we were going to chase down the Wienermobile!

As luck would have it, the Wienermobile was still parked at Cooper's by the time we got there. So we got our pictures taken, looked the thing all over, and had a good laugh before heading home.

As we drove home, I shared with the kids how the people running the Wienermobile get the job, and what it's like. Essentially, Wienermobile staffers are recruited to the job by other Wienermobile staffers from people they meet doing the job. Once hired, you sign on to drive the Wienermobile around the US, from event to event, for one year.

M's reaction? "That's cool. I want to drive the Wienermobile when I grow up."

And you know what? That would be just like her to actually do it, wouldn't it?