This weekend was the start of the Christmas season in the Heights. On Friday we went to the party on 19th Street – all of the shops were open late, serving wine and food. The Holiday Home Tour was this weekend as well, but we’re rather burnt out on those now, so didn’t attend.

Our painting is now delayed until tomorrow, and since Ed has insisted that the painters caulk before they paint, there is little chance that the house will be painted before Christmas. I have therefore begun to surreptitiously put Christmas lights out. Today I hung stars in the big tree. If they don’t come this week, I will do the full icicle light treatment.

Our neighbor Kathryn’s parents are interested in buying our house. Kathryn just had a baby, their first grandchild (she is close to my age), so they would like to move in from the suburbs. I would like that, her mother is a Master Gardener. They came over tonight to look around. They’ve been looking at houses in the Heights since their daughter moved in, but haven’t found anything comparable in quality to Kathryn and Jerome’s house. Ours is the same builder (and nearly the same house). We’ll see, home prices here have actually risen quite a bit over the last two years, contrary to the rest of the country, so we don’t want to sell low.