I didn't exactly get the house I wanted to begin with, but I sure love the house I ended up with!
It's on five acres, the house is a barn that had been rebuilt from the studs in. The house is cute as a button...cute, cute, cute! The sellers were very dead on with their choice of colors. At first, I thought , "No, I can't do this." But the more I thought about the bright reds, yellows and oranges they used, the more it grew on me.
It's two bedrooms, two baths. Just big enough for my daughter and I. The land is already fenced on three sides, so we only need to take care of the one side. (and luckily that side is a short one, only 332 feet!)
Closing date is mid January, so we will be moving slow up to the north in the dead of winter. Never let anyone tell you I do things by the norm!
Pictures soon!
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Thursday, November 20, 2014
A BIG Move!
I haven't been here. I've been absent. I look, I visit the blogs I follow, and enjoy them, but as for writing. Eh. How can I share what is going on here in my life when there is really nothing going on...worth blogging about.
But...now there is. I am moving far, far away. To a whole other state! I have never lived more than fifty miles away from where I was born and raised. Now I am moving two states away!
I am buying a 6 and a half acre farm in Washington state. I'm excited. My daughter can take her horses up there and have them right outside her bedroom window again, I can get more chickens. I can weave, quilt, cross stitch, nap, drink coffee, watch TV, what ever my little ol' heart desires. I may get a couple of tiny little goats too. And a pig, maybe a pig!
I have essentially sold this house. The first week of next month my daughter and I are going to do a walk through, and get all the inspections we need on the house in Washington and then offer up some money and see what happens. Have I said that I'm excited??? Rain? No worries...I love rain, Snow? Where we are going gets a dusting occasionally and doesn't stay long. Although, I think that would be a great excuse to build a fire, make some hot chocolate and quilt, or crochet, or weave! Can't leave the house...oh well!
Come Springtime, I will be setting up a garden and start growing my veges. I made my daughter pack what canning stuff I have, even though according to her, I could buy more when we get there. I don't think it is right to give away what you have only to buy more. I am going to learn how to be more self sufficient, not learn how to spend more! Except that I will invest in a freezer, so I can store meat and vegetables that I don't can. She'll see, she'll learn, I plan on teaching her.
I keep looking at pictures of the house we want. I want to make the curtains for it already, but I don't know how big the windows are! I want to weave some throw rugs for the dogs to sleep on, instead of the carpeting but my looms are all packed up and ready to go. I want to fence in the dog yard...oh my goodness all the plans that are going through my head! WOW! I haven't been this excited in a long, long time.
New beginnings. Leaving the old behind. Starting over. Making new friends. Hey! I even scoped out a quilt shop and guild! They are one and the same and only about three miles from the house I want to buy! YeeHaw! New friends! My old friends have been instructed to take road trips and come stay with us. I will have the room! I can cook nice big meals with lots of comfort foods and feed them. I can let them milk my goats and collect eggs for their breakfast! Oh! And pick their veges out of my garden!
Pinching myself...yep! I'm not dreaming! It's real!
But...now there is. I am moving far, far away. To a whole other state! I have never lived more than fifty miles away from where I was born and raised. Now I am moving two states away!
I am buying a 6 and a half acre farm in Washington state. I'm excited. My daughter can take her horses up there and have them right outside her bedroom window again, I can get more chickens. I can weave, quilt, cross stitch, nap, drink coffee, watch TV, what ever my little ol' heart desires. I may get a couple of tiny little goats too. And a pig, maybe a pig!
I have essentially sold this house. The first week of next month my daughter and I are going to do a walk through, and get all the inspections we need on the house in Washington and then offer up some money and see what happens. Have I said that I'm excited??? Rain? No worries...I love rain, Snow? Where we are going gets a dusting occasionally and doesn't stay long. Although, I think that would be a great excuse to build a fire, make some hot chocolate and quilt, or crochet, or weave! Can't leave the house...oh well!
Come Springtime, I will be setting up a garden and start growing my veges. I made my daughter pack what canning stuff I have, even though according to her, I could buy more when we get there. I don't think it is right to give away what you have only to buy more. I am going to learn how to be more self sufficient, not learn how to spend more! Except that I will invest in a freezer, so I can store meat and vegetables that I don't can. She'll see, she'll learn, I plan on teaching her.
I keep looking at pictures of the house we want. I want to make the curtains for it already, but I don't know how big the windows are! I want to weave some throw rugs for the dogs to sleep on, instead of the carpeting but my looms are all packed up and ready to go. I want to fence in the dog yard...oh my goodness all the plans that are going through my head! WOW! I haven't been this excited in a long, long time.
New beginnings. Leaving the old behind. Starting over. Making new friends. Hey! I even scoped out a quilt shop and guild! They are one and the same and only about three miles from the house I want to buy! YeeHaw! New friends! My old friends have been instructed to take road trips and come stay with us. I will have the room! I can cook nice big meals with lots of comfort foods and feed them. I can let them milk my goats and collect eggs for their breakfast! Oh! And pick their veges out of my garden!
Pinching myself...yep! I'm not dreaming! It's real!
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Making Some Headway
I am sporadic. Or should I say, I am a sporadic person. You all know that, by seeing the dates I post. Life is keeping me from doing stuff like this. At times I feel compelled to write. Not because I think you all need to know what is going on in my life. Not at all. My life is fairly boring. Don't get me wrong, I kind of like it that way.
BUT. I have made progress and I need to put that down somewhere, so I can look back and see that I did do something at some point in my days. I have been cleaning my bedroom for, oh lets say for the sake of argument, a couple of months. Yes. A couple of months. I don't like rushing into these things. My brain had decided that there were other things more important than my room. The only time I spend in there now is getting ready for work, changing after work and sleeping. So, why would I worry about what it was looking like?
It just got to be too much for me finally. I moved some stuff around, emptied out a couple of bags of things that I had brought from the other house and a bag or two of things a friend gave me. (Real grateful there, isn't it? She gave those things to me months ago.)
I just found some pieces to a quilt I started ...years...years ago. And I have to tell you. I didn't feel bad about it sitting there so long. Some of you have helped me with that by telling stories of your own quilt tops being sidelined for lengthy periods of time. I will finish it; eventually. There are other things that need to be finished, and maybe this will be the year that I work on some of my long put aside WIP's. It would be nice to finish something that is from long ago.
I am in awe of those of you who have full time jobs, children, husbands and multiple things to do each day. Maybe it's because you have that momentum that you accomplish so many things. And quilt! I complain (to myself) that I have work forty hours a week, a house that needs clearing as well as being fixed up to live in while being cleared and only two days to do errands, housekeeping, appointments, communicate with sisters on progress of the house, bills, rubbish pickup and trailer deliveries. (My BIL has a trailer I use to toss garbage from this house, but it gets taken away at the most inopportune times) I can never find the time to just sit and quilt...I would love to do a whole day marathon.
Yesterday I had to go and rent a truck to move a couple of gross couches that my oldest daughter didn't want at my house up the road. That was about six hours given up to do something I hadn't planned on. It had to be done and she can't drive right now, therefore I needed to help. We made the best of it and went and had lunch together when we were finished. I also had to pick up this computer, because I had it in with the Geek Squad to remove a virus.
Last night I managed to do a block from Tula Pink's City Sampler. I think I did #4 again. I didn't like the way the first one turned out. I can't take pictures, because we have finally gotten the rain we so desperately needed and it's really gloomy, not picture taking light at all. Today I made a little slip cover for my Kindle. I just need to find a button to do the enclosure. I have one in mind. I just need to find my jar of buttons!!!
I need to do my laundry for the week, sweep the floors and mop the front room. See weather related talk above...it leads to muddy dog prints all over, so doing the floors is a daily event.
So yes. Making headway. Tomorrow it's back to work, and I am hoping that this week passes and quickly as the last one. I can't wait to get started on my home stuff again!
Thanks to you all for keeping me up to date with your blogging. I feel like I am part of something even though I can't participate as much as I would like!
BUT. I have made progress and I need to put that down somewhere, so I can look back and see that I did do something at some point in my days. I have been cleaning my bedroom for, oh lets say for the sake of argument, a couple of months. Yes. A couple of months. I don't like rushing into these things. My brain had decided that there were other things more important than my room. The only time I spend in there now is getting ready for work, changing after work and sleeping. So, why would I worry about what it was looking like?
It just got to be too much for me finally. I moved some stuff around, emptied out a couple of bags of things that I had brought from the other house and a bag or two of things a friend gave me. (Real grateful there, isn't it? She gave those things to me months ago.)
I just found some pieces to a quilt I started ...years...years ago. And I have to tell you. I didn't feel bad about it sitting there so long. Some of you have helped me with that by telling stories of your own quilt tops being sidelined for lengthy periods of time. I will finish it; eventually. There are other things that need to be finished, and maybe this will be the year that I work on some of my long put aside WIP's. It would be nice to finish something that is from long ago.
I am in awe of those of you who have full time jobs, children, husbands and multiple things to do each day. Maybe it's because you have that momentum that you accomplish so many things. And quilt! I complain (to myself) that I have work forty hours a week, a house that needs clearing as well as being fixed up to live in while being cleared and only two days to do errands, housekeeping, appointments, communicate with sisters on progress of the house, bills, rubbish pickup and trailer deliveries. (My BIL has a trailer I use to toss garbage from this house, but it gets taken away at the most inopportune times) I can never find the time to just sit and quilt...I would love to do a whole day marathon.
Yesterday I had to go and rent a truck to move a couple of gross couches that my oldest daughter didn't want at my house up the road. That was about six hours given up to do something I hadn't planned on. It had to be done and she can't drive right now, therefore I needed to help. We made the best of it and went and had lunch together when we were finished. I also had to pick up this computer, because I had it in with the Geek Squad to remove a virus.
Last night I managed to do a block from Tula Pink's City Sampler. I think I did #4 again. I didn't like the way the first one turned out. I can't take pictures, because we have finally gotten the rain we so desperately needed and it's really gloomy, not picture taking light at all. Today I made a little slip cover for my Kindle. I just need to find a button to do the enclosure. I have one in mind. I just need to find my jar of buttons!!!
I need to do my laundry for the week, sweep the floors and mop the front room. See weather related talk above...it leads to muddy dog prints all over, so doing the floors is a daily event.
So yes. Making headway. Tomorrow it's back to work, and I am hoping that this week passes and quickly as the last one. I can't wait to get started on my home stuff again!
Thanks to you all for keeping me up to date with your blogging. I feel like I am part of something even though I can't participate as much as I would like!
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