Gank spent the better part of yesterday afternoon prepping our windows for the delicious cool weather coming our way. How I love a sparkling view out the window while I prep for dinner or wash dishes. I adore having the windows thrown open for those woodsy smells stealing in and out, teasing us with thoughts of Autumn while we still have some Summer yet to endure. It feels like rights being made from wrongs, as my darling husband sorts through the enormous pile of storm windows to find the correct fit.
It's lovely and heartwarming, and I am so appreciative of your hard work; thanks and Well done, love!
Interesting that our first post here on typepad is just about a year from our last post on vox. Perhaps we were ready for a change of pace in our own blogosphere, as this time round both my husband and I are participating and we're planning on discussing our progeny and varying and numerous projects about which we tend to overplan and fantasize and run on at the mouth. A little excessively at times, but HEY! It wouldn't be kiddo and the gank without some unfinished crap sitting about.
We've since had another babe, to whom we delightfully refer as exhibit B. Exhibit A is doing marvelously, and at 2.75 yrs has somehow rocketed into fully-operational little kidhood. How did that happen already? I'm telling you, we're just as shocked as you.
But with a toddler and four wk-old infant, we moved into our first house, a wee Cotswold Cottage built in the late 1940's on .75 acre and nestled into a pocket of rural farmland in northern VA. Don't get me wrong; while farmers markets and backroads abound, Target and Starbucks and the nail place are just round the corner. I call it subrural, a nicely bastardized term from 'quasirural,' which is actually listed in the online dictionary.
Our goals are to turn around the mis-managed home-improvement from the previous owner, while maintaining the character of our lovely storybook English house, as well as a budget, and reusing as many resources as possible. We're also going to learn about, set up and nurture a productive biodynamic garden and dwarf orchard, as well as a small apiary and chicken coop.
Sustainable as possible. This is the beginning of our adventure, one step [ nail, meal, smile, project, giggle, day, poop] at a time. Thanks for reading!
