Leah got her hands on some adult beverage on Monday. She’s not quite old enough to drink it, but she’s old enough to hold it while you’re busy with something else.

Either Noel is a bad influence on very small children, or his ability to point out indiscretion is astounding… maybe both.

He really should know better.

Selling our house went very quickly and now a bid that we put on a house across the street was accepted. We will either be closing quickly enough on the new house to move before our closing for the current house or we’ll be moving elsewhere in the interim. Here’s a picture of the new house from the porch of our current house…

I know, it seems crazy to move to another place that is so flipping close.

We had pretty much finished whatever real improvements we could do on our current house, so we decided to sell. As we went through the process of selling, we started looking for another place we could buy that could be fixed up. We looked at more than a dozen different houses of varying size, location and price. They were all what Realtor types would probably call “Handyman Specials.” We looked at the place pictured above a little over a week ago, it is in good enough condition that we felt confident in being able to do most of the work ourselves and we liked the layout.

Our plan is to stay for a year or two and then move on to another place. We’re really just trying to keep our broker as busy as possible. More updates about how things work out, our renovations and all that coming up soon.

Riverview has just started a new series, the visual theme of which is comic book styled. We started building on Thursday, (though Kristie probably started designing weeks or months ago.) At any rate, we finished with only an hour or two to spare. Here’s a shot of the first service:

The background image is a cityscape, complete with old-school print patterning. The buildings are foam insulation, cut, screwed together and painted, with styrene light diffusers behind the window cut-outs. They are backlit by some cheap Chauvet LED color-mixing light fixtures. Eric, Brett, Kristie, Andy and I did the construction over the last three days, and I was putting on final touches until just a couple hours before the first service.

Between the building stuff, work, and the family, it’s been a pretty busy week.