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 Life seems to get away from me sometimes.  Between selling our house, finishing all of the moving, doing work around the property, and all of my daily chores, I just don't seem to have the time to blog lately.  But I know there are folks that would like to see what we're up to, so I'll at least do a photo dump today!  Hopefully one of these days life will calm down enough to actually write a good post.        

Well, it sure has been a while since I last posted.  December, January, and February were some pretty tough months for us.  We wanted so badly to get back to Jamestown and finish moving our things and getting the house ready to sell, but the weather had other plans.  Seems like every time we set aside a day to drive back, there was a pretty nasty snow storm that kept us home.  The real trouble is that there is the tail of a snow belt between us and our old house, and we didn't want to chance it.   If I'm being totally honest though, we needed a break from everything.  We were so burnt out from moving and working constantly, that we barely felt alive.  So most of January ended up being a down time for us, and we enjoyed it very much.  We went snow hiking and snowshoeing through our woods.  We sat by the fire with the kitties.     We looked at cool things out our windows, like the neighbors' Christmas lights reflecting off the ic...

It's been 19 days since I last posted, and a lot has happened here at Ciderbrook.  For one thing, I have my desk and my computer set up!  We have moved all of the chaotic piles of furniture out of the middle of the floor, and set up some basic living areas around the house.  (You'll have to excuse the messes everywhere.  We're doing the best we can right now.) (Click on images to make them bigger)  Coming into the house from the front door, you'll see the dining table , the hutch, a bookcase, and a desk.  Also a giant pile of empty totes waiting to go back to our old house. The same side of the dining room, looking at the other corner, where you can see the the desk better, the corner hutch, and a little bit of our coat closet/armoire, and of course the doorway to the living room. On the other side of the dining room, you can see the doorway to the kitchen (and Chad), plus the closet door (left), the upstairs (middle next to the kitchen), and the bedroom h...

 We had our big furniture moved on Monday. It went well and the movers were great, but it exhausted me so much that I stayed in bed until 11am the next day. Chaos does that to me, and that was my house after the movers left, total chaos.  It’s better now. I even have a proper desk and Chad even set up my computer!  I’m still using my phone tonight though because I am tired so deep in my bones that even turning on my computer seems hard. 

 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.