More hiking and fires

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 I’m tired you guys. We’re getting ready for the movers to bring our big furniture in two days, and we have been hustling. When we have any down time at all, we are enjoying doing country stuff. Stacking, splitting, and burning wood, going for walks on our country road and hikes up in our hills, and just chilling by the big window to watch the hills change with the season. 

We are going to stay home next week to get the furniture and things put into some kind of order, before going back to packing at the other house. 













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