For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some lovin’ here today, oh oh oh–Marvin Gaye, What’s going on?
![Summer Tanager, Lafitte's Cove, Galveston Island, Texas](https://www.twoshutterbirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Summer_Tanager_Lafittes_CCunningham.jpg)
Regular readers of Two Shutterbirds may be wondering what’s going on: Our posts have become sporadic, our commentary, elliptical . . . .
![Neotropic Cormorant wit hShad, the bridge, Fiorenza Park, Houston, Texas](https://www.twoshutterbirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Neotropic_shad_Fiorenza_CCunningham.jpg)
In a nutshell, we’ve been making the big push to get over Harvey. Both our our destroyed house and our new house are under contract.
![Great Egret in Fight, Fiorenza Park, Houston, Texas](https://www.twoshutterbirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Great_Egret_in_flight_Fiorenza.jpg)
The whole have-your-house-destroyed, sell it, and buy another one has not been the worst experience of my life, but it is on the list.
I have bought two houses before, but as those who have purchased/sold real estate since the housing crisis of 2008/2009 can tell you, it is a different world out there. It seems not to matter if you have money or a perfect credit rating or not: You are in for a [expletive deleted] nightmare. The amount of red tape has generated some real frustration. Luckily, Elisa has been a trooper and kept me in the game when I was about to give up–on repeated occasions.
So, for a while longer, all we’ll be able to do is peruse the archives, revel in the birding joys of the past, and dream of even greater birding adventures in the future . . . Stay tuned.
![Tufted Puffin, St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska](https://www.twoshutterbirds.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Tufted_Puffin_Standing_CCunningham.jpg)
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