so a lot's happened..
Apr. 19th, 2016 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinsnestI wish I could blame the fact we didn't have internet for almost two weeks on why I'm so bad at posting...but alas I think I'm just horrid at it.
So lets see what's happened...well we got the house! settlement was stressful right through till the very end, and I still have nightmares where the mortgage guy calls and goes "we realized we made a mistake..." But we're fully moved in, keys to the apt handed in and that's all taken care of. Granted I've barely unpacked because we want to paint everything so why settle things just to move them again right? (it's going to take us forever to get that far so I really should just unpack). Thankfully the house has a two car garage that's full of our lives. The garage is actually the original barn from the propery that the previous owners converted with garage doors and a poured floor.
The house has a lovely flower garden and a huuuuge already fenced vegetable garden which I'm very excited about.
I already planted sugar snap peas which require something to grow up..so I got creative with some bamboo I found behind the barn and wool yarn leftovers...yup that would be the bits of my knitted petticoat that were small pieces and too annoying to knit with so I wound them into a ball for someday making pompoms...
I was pleasantly surprised to see I had rhubarb already planted! My dad's very favorite pie is strawberry rhubarb and I'm hoping there'll be enough to make a pie when he comes to visit next weekend.
A pretty bush hidden behind my veggie garden. Not sure what kind it is looks like a dogwood of some kind but it's a bush?
Actual dogwood tree by the back patio. Notice my bird feeder was one of the first things set up. So far I've seen cardinals, chickadees, house finches, gold finches, and I think purple finches. Titmouse, white breasted nuthatch, downy wood pecker, several robins and a ton of house sparrows that nest by the barn.
Oh and then this happened.
Her name is Ellie after Eleanore Roosevelt (you see she's going to be a very fascinating dog) and she has saved you from this very threatening stick! She's 13 weeks old tomorrow. Mom was a golden retriever and dad was a mystery man. the winning current theory is German Shepard based on the tail and she's got little bits of black on the end of her ears and tail.
She's a belly rub whore.
Dangerous stick, neutralized.
So lets see what's happened...well we got the house! settlement was stressful right through till the very end, and I still have nightmares where the mortgage guy calls and goes "we realized we made a mistake..." But we're fully moved in, keys to the apt handed in and that's all taken care of. Granted I've barely unpacked because we want to paint everything so why settle things just to move them again right? (it's going to take us forever to get that far so I really should just unpack). Thankfully the house has a two car garage that's full of our lives. The garage is actually the original barn from the propery that the previous owners converted with garage doors and a poured floor.
The house has a lovely flower garden and a huuuuge already fenced vegetable garden which I'm very excited about.
I already planted sugar snap peas which require something to grow up..so I got creative with some bamboo I found behind the barn and wool yarn leftovers...yup that would be the bits of my knitted petticoat that were small pieces and too annoying to knit with so I wound them into a ball for someday making pompoms...
I was pleasantly surprised to see I had rhubarb already planted! My dad's very favorite pie is strawberry rhubarb and I'm hoping there'll be enough to make a pie when he comes to visit next weekend.
A pretty bush hidden behind my veggie garden. Not sure what kind it is looks like a dogwood of some kind but it's a bush?
Actual dogwood tree by the back patio. Notice my bird feeder was one of the first things set up. So far I've seen cardinals, chickadees, house finches, gold finches, and I think purple finches. Titmouse, white breasted nuthatch, downy wood pecker, several robins and a ton of house sparrows that nest by the barn.
Oh and then this happened.
Her name is Ellie after Eleanore Roosevelt (you see she's going to be a very fascinating dog) and she has saved you from this very threatening stick! She's 13 weeks old tomorrow. Mom was a golden retriever and dad was a mystery man. the winning current theory is German Shepard based on the tail and she's got little bits of black on the end of her ears and tail.
She's a belly rub whore.
Dangerous stick, neutralized.
