Riley and Avery

Rudi got rid of his books.  I can't say he got rid of them all, but after packing a couple boxes of them, he got tired of it and took them to the library instead.  Honestly, I never understood the act of keeping things just to have them.  I mean, I can understand collecting, in moderation, but a stamp collection or coin collection, or baseball card collection, doesn't take up much space.  At least for normal people they don't.  But collecting books (and bookcases to hold them) when you never look at them again is just ridiculous to me.  Is it just so that you can say that you have a "library?" Is that a status symbol I'm not aware of?  I mean, sure, having a library 300 years ago was a status symbol, but today we have these buildings that are actually called libraries, where you go to borrow books for free.

Sorry, no pictures!  We haven't really been doing anything picture-worthy, just packing.  Lots and lots of packing.  We've thrown out far more than we've packed, which is a good sign so far.  Much much much more than we've packed.  By "thrown out" I mean donated, trashed, or otherwise disposed of.  We're trying to make do with a 17' moving truck, which will save us a considerable amount of money and I have a feeling that the new house is smaller than this one, with less storage.  So, we are purging very aggressively!  Even Rudi is, and we all know what a pack-rat he is!

We finally made it to the last day of this year's RenFest, and our last in Colorado!  The weather was a little warm at first, but it cooled off significantly as it threatened to rain after a while, but didn't actually rain until we got to our car several hours later.  Phew.

We've already looked into Renaissance Festivals in Maine, and they do have one for one weekend only in May.  I think Portland weather in May is definitely long-sleeved weather, which makes costuming easier.  Rudi says that he wants me to make him a kilt and a shirt.