We're here

in the middle of nowhere. Madison seems to be a very quiet town, and almost everything is within walking distance of our house. I made a quick trip to the grocery store today, and I was impressed with their selection and prices. We've eaten at/from the local Dairy Queen, Casey's (pizza), supper club, and grocery deli. We are working on unpacking, and I think we've made good progress today. The kitchen, dining room, living room, and kids' rooms are mostly done. Our room, bathrooms, toy room, garage, office and school stuff aren't even started. The house is big with beautiful woodwork and glass. It also shows all of its almost 100 years. Sadly, the updates through the years have been rather shoddy. We definitely won't be buying this house. We were disappointed to find that some of the house's selling points were a little misleading. The four bedrooms are really just three (so we now have a girl room and a boy room); the three baths are really 2.5 baths, but one of them is so disgusting that we're nailing the door shut, so really just 1.5 baths; the central air doesn't exist unless you count two window units and/or wind through open windows; and the heated garage is only heated by warmth from the sun. I am 99.9% sure that we have the ugliest bathroom you have ever seen. Words can't describe it, and even if I had the words, you wouldn't believe it. I will be attaching pictures once we are up-and-running. Mark's boss told us that we should see quite a few additional houses on the market this spring. Once people in town know we are here, he thinks people will want us to consider buying their house. I guess he's already had people making inquiries, and these are people who don't have their house listed right now. That's great for buying but pretty scary if we ever need to sell our house. I'm sitting here realizing that the only outside noise I've heard all day was the snow grater that came by twice this afternoon. Wow. How different and how wonderful.