House hunting is not something we have done for a long time so it is becoming front and center in our lives as we get deeper and deeper into the summer. We had some hopes that after poking around for the last year, some months much more intentional than others (especially in the winter) that we might have run across something that would have caught our attention. Well I am not sure that some have not caught our attention but there are so many variables to get to that point of making an offer on a house that it seems endless.

We are using all the available resources to try and work through those variables. We have a realtor, the web site, talking with friends, a mortgage company, and financial planning. We go and look at houses and create a list of "things" that we want in a house to meet our expectations and so we have started the tour of houses to figure out what seems to be the best fit.

The summer is upon us and, as I understand it, Memorial Day weekend is the weekend for everyone to get out and get away. It all has something to do with opening up their cabins for the summer and with four days of...pretty good weather in front of us.... it looks like it will be a fun weekend. It is fun to get away; our family loves to travel and I think everyone I know enjoys taking a break from the daily routine of life. It is especially good when you can get away with your family or good friends and just relax.

I have been told that the weather has been fabulous this year (we decided to bring it with us from Oregon) with all the warm weather it is unusally warm. Seems like that is all that I have heard from the day we arrived, none of this weather is normal so we are lucky. I am looking forward (I think) to what normal is supposed to be. It is interesting how we measure "normal" isn't it.