(sorry… i couldn’t help it. it’s just such a good fit.)

scout and i have spent the last week consumed with this gorgeous
barn that we are hoping to buy. we’d planned on researching this
endeavor for about a year before we found anything… but we found
something. so we’re crash test cramming about adjustable rate
mortgages and appraisals and septic systems and closing costs and
under floor heating and carpenter ants and, of course, the power of
positive thinking. (or its new millenium counterpart: the secret)