March 31

Usually when you buy (or sell) a house, you go to a title company's office space and sit in a nice room with a pretty table across from someone in a suit who offers you bottled water or coffee and then hands you page after page of docs all primed for your John Hancock. But this is what it looks like when you sign papers during a shelter-in-place order and virtually everything is operating remotely:

Adam set up a card table on the sidewalk leading up to our (current) house, so that's where we sat --a safe-ish distance from our sweatpants-and-bun wearing title company rep-- this evening to sign our papers.

It was an unconventional experience and our close date was pushed back a little thanks to the bank and the title company (and the county recorder's office) trying to adapt to new COVID19-related regulations, but hey, at least we signed. And we're moving forward. So for that, I'm thankful. (And one day, the story will be funny.)