We own it!

     It's been a day fraught with tension and drama, but today CHIC 2018 purchased the 1802 Madison house.  This is the step on which all others depended and work can now begin in earnest.  The members of CHIC 2018 will be surveying the property tomorrow and we will begin planning for our first big volunteer effort: removal of the overgrowth that surrounds this great old home.  Also, in the next couple of weeks we'll be soliciting bids from roofing companies for the new roof.

     Of course what this really means that the Albatross is well and truly hung about our necks now.  We'll need every bit of your help to turn the poor old bird into a beautiful swan.  Thank you all for the enthusiasm that you've shown for this project and I hope that we can count on your support in the future.

And now, it's to bed, for we have an early morning tomorrow.

"He went like one that hath been stunned,

And is of sense forlorn:

A sadder and a wiser man

He rose the morrow morn."