Week 1

Moving boxes everywhere. P took a couple of days off but there is still so much to unpack. We have SO MUCH STUFF. Currently there is stuff piled on top of stuff. Where are we going to put it all? Lucky this house has so much room.

It is amazing being in the country. Every now and then I'll just stop what I'm doing and look out the window, and just go WOW. Just looking out at green everywhere feels so peaceful and relaxing.

Biggest difference from being in the city (besides the scenery) ... it is dark at night, so very dark. No street lights, no neighbours lights, just darkness.

We have birds living in the ceiling and the walls. One sounds like it is behind the kitchen wall/rangehood. We had two others fly down into the chimneys. P opened the fireplace door and one later flew out into the room.

There are flies everywhere. Every day there are a dozen fly carcasses lying on the window sills around the house. I have to be vigilent and find them before V does, lest she try and eat them.

We have a swimming pool. We've never owned a swimming pool before either. On day 1 and day 3, K and I went for a swim. Now the pool has turned green. We suspect the previous owners had a filter running. We need to find where it is and how to work it.

Have been so busy with the inside of the house, we haven't even looked at outside or the land yet.

-M