the clock is ticking on getting our house in shape to move in. We have to be out of our apartment on June 30th so that means the house needs to be as close to done as possible by then. That means we need: electric upstairs, insulation, walls, paint and floors, and bathroom done by then. Kind of overwhelming to say the least. Bright is stoked to be moving- he knows which room is his simply by overhearing us talk about it. He loves to go to the house while we are working on it and play in the sweet sandbox that Kevin and Kristy made for him with his favorite John Deere green paint.
The garden that we planted there is doing fine- corn (4 rows), beans, peas, carrots, basil, zucchini, strawberries and three kinds of tomatoes all seem to be surviving without a lot of constant TLC. This garden is not as big as the one we had in Eugene at the Matthews Garden plot which I think was 20x20. Ours is just 16x16 this year. Maybe next year we will expand it but the rototilling and sod pulling was enough for us this year.
We have finished most of the painting in the dining room and have been moving boxes everyday. A wayyyy easier move than from NY to Oregon, and Oregon back to NY. Now it's just 4 miles down the road. We will still have just one car, as that is all we can afford with just Andy working but I think we will be just fine. We can walk to the grocery store, library and church which are all a block or two from our house and when we need the car we can take Andy to work or he will ride his bike. Plus he has December through February off from teaching at his college so that will be better as well. I think once we are living in the house we will have enough things to keep us busy and play parks close by that we won't be looking for reasons to drive to Geneva for shopping just to have a change of pace.
No pictures of the house to show yet. Too busy when we are there either working or chasing after Bright to stop for that.
Here's pictures of Bright from a few weeks ago, though.
