One Week Later

Atlas has two new challenges. One is to live with Andy as his primary companion, the other is to survive moving back into our house. We have been out of it for several months while it was repaired from water and smoke and fire fighter damage after a major fire next door, another three story city townhouse of lineage from the 1800's. The fire fighter damage was by far the worst. By the time they had competed their work they had put numerous holes in the roof thinking we had a common wall with the house that had the fire (we don't), torn up every roof in the third floor including most of the original tin ceilings, smashed two internal locking mechanisms on doors I told them were unlocked (firemen don't turn knobs) and relocated several pieces of wood trim from stairs to the floor. We are sleeping in our house again tonight, surrounded by mountains of boxes

Surprisingly, both cats are doing well. They have found the bed - the critical part of any house. I hope that the same is true for ous by the time we have made it thru all of these boxes.

We are supposed to be getting our cable TV service transferred to this address tomorrow morning.We have about 60 boxes between the new futon to replace our sleeper sofa and the television, so we will have service long before we can see it.