It's been a while

Hello. Sorry I've been remiss in posting. We've had a whirlwind couple of months and I'll try to summarize our activities here.

Christmas was fantastic. The best in recent memory. Not sure exactly why, but everything fell into place and the holiday was perfect. I think it had something to do with Jude's Christmas-Eve dinner. Man, that was good beef!

Shortly before the new year, we heard that our tenants were moving out of the Rye house. (Good luck in your new home Marcia and Michael!) That meant that we'd be stretched pretty thin until we found tenants for that house and the new one that we are just finishing renovating. On top of that, my job at IBM became very tenuous and it was clear that I'd have to find other work. Things were looking grim.

Well, last week we found a great tenant for the Rye house. A nice couple coming back East from California. They are moving in on February 1. And just tonight we rented out the Portsmouth house to a lovely professional couple who really liked it as soon as they saw it. We feel blessed to have had such fine people find us.

My last day at IBM was this past Monday - two days ago. (Details omitted pending my severance check arriving in my account. More info will be forthcoming.)

So we're starting the new year off well. It began a bit shaky, but we are cautiously optimistic.