Winter Quarters

We have a place to live, starting December 17th! It is the 1790 third floor apartment overlooking Providence. There are two working fireplaces, a garden and a porch, a small but renovated kitchen and bathroom, crooked floors. It is small, but very cozy-looking and so much, much more charming--quaint, the girls all choose to say--than everything else I've seen. We have a handshake agreement. We will stay through June, with an option to extend the lease. Sally likes the place. Dogs are welcome, as long as they do not damage things. We are going to have to figure out where we'll be between November and Christmas, of course, but it should not be so hard. I think this situation and its timing are just about as good as we could hope for. And there remains this matter of selling our house in South Salem, the long financial shadow. But you know, I think it is going to work out. It is all going to work out fine!