Best wishes for your move to CA.
Moose | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 3:03 pm | #

Doc-

Please take care during your move.
We'll be anxiously awaiting your return in 1/10 and trying to stay sane without your help.

It will be difficult with the Narcissist-In-Chief and his bots destroying our nation.
USAF61 | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 3:51 pm | #

Too bad you don't live in NYC. I am looking for a house there. Good market for buyers.
vinny | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 3:54 pm | #

Have safe trip and move and try to unwind and relax those few weeks before starting into your new job! Best wishes for both a successful transition AND a quick sale of your home by November's end!

We will miss you and look forward to your return next year!

Have a marvelous holiday season as well!

See you in January,
Dr. D
DWB | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 4:12 pm | #

Good luck, Doc.
We'll be here when you get back!!
Have a safe trip!
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xqqme | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 4:31 pm | #

Going cross country with a cat? You poor woman! What is the cats name?
SCOTT THE BADGER | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 5:36 pm | #

The cat's name is "Pumpkin"--does that make a difference? She's 15 years old.
Dr. Sanity | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 5:46 pm | #

It's a good thing that you're heading out to California, they really need the help out there. Good luck and Happy Holidays!
EL Rider | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 5:52 pm | #

Have a good move, and enjoy setting up your new home. Your return will be like a belated Christmas gift for your fans.

Happy Holidays.
expat | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 5:59 pm | #

Best wishes on a safe, successful, and easy move. Looking forward to your return.
ytba | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 6:00 pm | #

Have a safe transition to CA and have an uneventful trip. We will be waiting for the details.
Yahtahei | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 7:45 pm | #

Doc,

You will like where you live in CA, close to Yosemite, Sequoia National Park, Mt. Whitney, etc.
Well, close (less than 300 miles) out here is different than the rest of the US-Have a safe trip.
debass | Email | Homepage | 10.28.09 - 8:50 pm | #

I look forward to hearing from you again.
Rick | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 2:49 am | #

Hope your house sells soon. Good luck on your cross country adventure, rest up, and we'll be anxiously looking forward to your return in January. Meanwhile, will try to retain some semblance of sanity despite everything falling apart!
paulajeanne | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 4:09 am | #

Oh! I forgot to say what fantastic pictures, the third one down of the leaves especially! I've never seen such a variety of colours.
paulajeanne | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 4:22 am | #

Take care of yourself, Doctor, and we'll be looking forward to your return. Thanks for everything. I used to be in real estate, and I have one suggestion: consider changing agents when the contract runs out on the one you have. It can make a difference. Your house looks very sale-able.
River | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 6:20 am | #

You do what you need to do and dont worry about us. We ain't going away.

You'll probably have to miss the fall season colors (depending on what neighborhood you are moving into) but you'll get the spring wild flowers in exchange.
Grimmy | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 6:24 am | #

As Grimmy said, we'll be here. Good luck.
tim | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 9:10 am | #

Welcome to California, Doctor. We certainly do need some sanity here! We will try to hold on until you return.
Judith L | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 9:47 am | #

When we moved from WI to NC years ago with our cat, we had to 'drug' him the whole 2-day trip, with our lovebirds in the car, no less.

Poor thing, he gave the most pathetic looks and meows the whole time.

We bought our current house in Dec. 29, 2000. So you may never know, there might be some buyers looking even at the dead of winter.

Hope things go smoothly for you. Eagerly waiting for your return to 'our world'. Thanks.
always right | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 10:15 am | #

You'll miss the 4 seasons. Definitely. California has seasons too, but they're just not the same. On the other hand, you can "visit" snow...when you're in the mood. And seasons aren't so far away - you just have to find a mountain close by.
In the Central Valley, you'll get to know the seasons by the veggies they plant, if you're observant and ask about them, you'll get aware of the passing seasons by what's growing. It's a giant food factory there. They plant, harvest, plow, and plant again. The veggies they plant depend on the season - tomatoes, peppers and beans in the summer, cabbage, and peas in the winter, and if you're in the right area, setting the strawberry plants for an early summer harvest. And your new rose garden will do splendidly there as well - you _will_ have a new rose garden, right?

Don't forget - when you advertise your house in Ann Arbor - to include photos of your beautiful rose garden! In bloom!
suek | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 11:17 am | #

best of luck with selling your home. I will continue to read your blog, It was interesting to read, thanks a lot!
although it is not the information I needed.
Degenerative Arthritis | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 11:43 am | #

Cat's name makes no difference, I was just curious. I am a Badger who likes cats, I have had 7 so far. Oddly enough, I have found Toms to be much friendlier critters.
SCOTT THE BADGER | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 1:08 pm | #

Have a good move, Dr. S.

If you don't have one already, I suggest you get a leash for your cat and use it when you step out of your car with the cat during your trip and also for the first day or so at your new home. I've had friends whose cats took off under these circumstances, and because the cats didn't know the neighborhood, they got lost and were never recovered.
Gloria | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 1:56 pm | #

a) Good luck with the sale, Doc

b) I'm sure you won't be able to resist an occasional post or two, but regardless, take it easy... we'll be here when you get back

c) Good luck with the move, too.
O Bloody Hell | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 2:47 pm | #

Badger, the cat's name is irrelevant, as you should know with a history of cats.

Cats don't come when you call, because they don't acknowledge your ability to name them. They have their own internal name which no human is privy to.

:o)
O Bloody Hell | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 2:49 pm | #

Good luck on your move, and keeping my fingers crossed that the house sells for you!
shibumi | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 3:29 pm | #

Good luck with the move! As others have said, in Fresno you'll be close to all sorts of dramatic natural beauty and all sorts of seasonal variations. So even though you won't experience the four seasons quite like you did in Michigan, snow and colorful leaves will not be far away if you want or need to see them. And just think about the wonderful produce that will be nearby, all locally grown.
Kurt | Email | Homepage | 10.29.09 - 4:28 pm | #

Cats don't come when you call, because they don't acknowledge your ability to name them.

OBH,
You'd be surprised. I've had six cats (one died of old age) so far.

All of them recognized their names. Some come when called (> 95% of the time), others merely registered that they knew you were calling them but it was up to their moods to respond or not.

One cat is so smart, he not only recognizes his own name (Aristotle, or Arie for short), he also knows when we call "Bad Boy"! Note: He is way too smart for his own good.
always right | Email | Homepage | 10.30.09 - 10:09 am | #

I heard the Japanese are developing a robotic cat that is programmed to understand 2000 words, each in 156 different languages, and ignore them all.
Grimmy | Email | Homepage | 10.31.09 - 8:30 am | #

There is a job in California??? Wow. Good luck!
Datou | Email | Homepage | 10.31.09 - 11:14 pm | #

May you enjoy the sunny skies of California! A Great Adventure!
May I make a logistical suggestion that might make your westward trek both easier and quicker? You might look into having your movers ship your car along with the rest of your things from home. This would save you the difficulty of driving through the mountains in the midst of what is shaping up to be a heavy duty winter. Just take a plane - and while plane travel is no picnic these days, it still beats several days of the uncertainties of winter driving. Also less stressful for your cat as the trip would be more brief.
Just a thought - that may/not fit your needs or plans - but a possibility to consider.....
Whatever your means of arrival, Happy Landings!
VBB | Email | Homepage | 11.01.09 - 1:02 pm | #

Sorry to see you go, can't blame you though.

I have my doubts that I will be able to keep A2 from falling off the planet into lefty, crazyverse now that you are leaving.

Have a safe move.
iron308 | Email | Homepage | 11.02.09 - 11:29 pm | #

Good luck, Dr.
pst314 | Email | Homepage | 11.16.09 - 8:34 pm | #

"Meanwhile, here is one of the (few) aspects of Ann Arbor I will dearly miss: Autumn and the lovely colors of Michigan this time of year."

Here, then, is a poem for you. I hope you like it:

"Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow.: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen."
--Archibald MacLeish
pst314 | Email | Homepage | 11.16.09 - 8:41 pm | #