He is quite pleased with it. We don't really know yet how it will be sold, or where. For those of you reading this in Italy, check if Feltrinelli has it, especially the Bologna store. The book was published by the University of Bologna press. Pretty impressinve, no, to have one's book published by the press of the oldest university in Europe! (1088 for those of you who wonder.)
The other wonderful news is that Evelina is walking! Here is she is in a field of bluebonnets. Of course this picture only shows that she can stand, which she has been doing for a while now. Those first steps came several weeks ago as well, but jusst this week she actually for the first time resolutely marched away from me towards her toys and she is able to turn around without first hitting the floor with her diapered behind. She can stand up from a sitting position without pulling herself up as well. Yes, a whole new world it is all of a sudden. I suppose she was determined to be walking at her birthday party!
I finally received plans of the house! I have been promising these for a while now. I don't know what it is about plans, but I really like them. I do think I should have gone to architecture school all these years ago when I was trying to decide on what to do after highschool. But that was (oh my!) 1988 and I choose graphic design (yes, entirely unrelated to computers then!) for some reason I have now long forgotten. But I digress. Forgive me reader, as it is nearly midnight and I have been up since Evelina got really hungry this morning at 6:30 a.m. So, the plans. Here they are.
So these are obviously the plans of the exterior and a section. If the section is confusing to you it is because the house is confusing. The house actually has four floors with two "in-between floors." This works as follows: from the first floor (i.e. above the ground floor) you ascend the stairs towards the second floor and halfway there, there is a small room that sits exactly inbetween those two floors. This happens again on your way up from the second floor to the third floor. I don't know exactly what these rooms originally were used for. In our house one of them is empty, and the other has been converted into a bathroom. They are too small to be bedrooms in our case. In my friend Inge's house in Antwerp these in-between floors are actual bedroom-size rooms. We don't really know yet what we will use the little space for that is empty right now. It would make a pretty decent size closet if nothing else.
And these then are the four floors. I have fiddled with the plans a little, i.e. erased some walls on the ground floor and moved some other walls so as to create one large open space and a little more outside-area, and sent this to the architect to give him an idea of what we have in mind. For the third floor (our bedroom I turned the three doors into one and added a little bit of the hallway to the room to make this more convenient. It will be just us up there so we don't really need three entrances. Here is this:
The architect is now going to put together a design concept of his own, based on what he knows about us and then ta-da everyone will live happily ever after in a wonderful house. Yeah, right! Then the negotiation starts, and the payments. Ouch! I will keep everyone informed. So, this was a meaty post in terms of visuals. But I cannot resist and end with one more photograph. One of my recent favorites of Evelina and her amazing "papa." Seeing these two together just makes everything else vanish into unimportance.
Warm spring greetings, from Texas with love, vanessa
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