cabin fever

So it's February in Chicago and of course I could write about how I can't wait for Spring tulips and garage sales and regular temperature fluctuations (as opposed to the seriously scary vacillating temperatures we've had this winter - and to anyone who still doesn't believe in global warning, I say ha!). But, no, the cabin fever I speak of today has to do with the online journal my friend Elorie is writing.

El and I have seen each other through lots of moves, but I have to say that her most current living situation takes the cake. Almost on a whim, she and her husband sold their home (along with most of the furnishings it contained), packed up their two daughters, and moved into a rental home down the street from their daughter's school. While she waits to build her dream home in the Pacific Northwest, or in Boulder, Colorado (where she plans to oversee the family's future organic goat cheese farm), she writes her diary of a downsized life in the suburbs of St. Louis. Go read all about her "life with wood paneling" here.

xoxo