April Showers

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After the driest March in a hundred years, the last couple of days have been really wet. We have been enjoying nice weather, and the first week of the cherry blossoms was beautiful. I was downtown this week, and took the scenic route home around the tidal basin and across the bridge to Arlington. It was beautiful. Unfortunately, today was the parade and street fair, and it poured!

We haven't minded, because we were working inside on our new house!! We closed on the afternoon of the 31st, and got in Saturday morning and started cleaning and scrubing and de-junking the place. found some good surprises (hardwood floors under the crappy linoleum) and some not so good surprises. We will be busy busy for the next 3 months before we can move in.

Meanwhile, I started radiation treatments on the 3rd, so I have two weeks of treatments done already. So far, no side effects at all: no fatigue, no sensitive skin. So, so far so good. It is a pain to be up and out the door every morning at 6:45, and not being able to travel is a challenge, but if thats all I have to complain about, then Iguess I can't!

Rachel snapped this picture of us when we went to the Colonial Farm last week. The farm is in a park across the Potomac from Mt. Vernon, near our new house. It is part of a park set aside so that when you visit Mt. Vernon, you see the same view that George and Martha saw.