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Slowly progressing...
Aug. 4th, 2009 06:58 pmWe are still unpacking. It goes slowly but surely. Part of the problem is that the sand from the old house infiltrated everything (including packed boxes). Everything that has been packed must also be at least wiped off before being put away. I am also trying to make sure that everything has a permanent home to go back to once it has been taken out of it's home. This is long and arduous, but well worth the effort I think.
In other news, we have dirt! Real dirt! It smells like dirt, it looks like dirt, and when you play with it, it even acts like dirt! I think that the gardens I was planning to do next year will work out wonderfully in real dirt. I couldn't get anything to grow in the old yard. This one is fantastic. I will start the raised beds this year, get them all amended and then plant stuff next year. I hope to use only reclaimed wood for two reasons, it's cheap, and I think it looks better.
I know stuff will grow. We have 5 rosebushes and two giant hedge shrubs of some sort in the front, along with two trees and at least one happy wormwood (the other may be dead, I'm not sure yet). In the back we have 6 yuccas, some assorted other type of bush thing, 3 ponderosa pines, and two trees of indeterminate kind. There would be three but one died before we came here and the other is a very small seedling that I am going to have to move. There is also at least 2 big honeysuckles, possibly 3. They are large and very intertwined.
I need to take a new Home picture for my icon. That picture isn't my home anymore (well, technically it is: I still own it, I just don't live there). It's hard, because that picture was so perfect. I just have to find an equally perfect inspiration here!
Our views are spectacular. We can see Albuquerque spread out from the living room door. We are planning a deck for out there. From the mailbox, we can see Bernalillo and Santa Fe. I love feeling like I am rural, but knowing that I am really only 2 miles away from anything. I am a city girl, but I like not being in the city. Rio Rancho is a odd place though. When we go shopping, the store clerks actually ask us if we need help. Even at Lowes! I kind of wonder if we are in an alternate universe. Then I decide to shut up, and be happy with it.
Probably more to come later. And a poll, for the naming of the house:
[Poll #1439790]
In other news, we have dirt! Real dirt! It smells like dirt, it looks like dirt, and when you play with it, it even acts like dirt! I think that the gardens I was planning to do next year will work out wonderfully in real dirt. I couldn't get anything to grow in the old yard. This one is fantastic. I will start the raised beds this year, get them all amended and then plant stuff next year. I hope to use only reclaimed wood for two reasons, it's cheap, and I think it looks better.
I know stuff will grow. We have 5 rosebushes and two giant hedge shrubs of some sort in the front, along with two trees and at least one happy wormwood (the other may be dead, I'm not sure yet). In the back we have 6 yuccas, some assorted other type of bush thing, 3 ponderosa pines, and two trees of indeterminate kind. There would be three but one died before we came here and the other is a very small seedling that I am going to have to move. There is also at least 2 big honeysuckles, possibly 3. They are large and very intertwined.
I need to take a new Home picture for my icon. That picture isn't my home anymore (well, technically it is: I still own it, I just don't live there). It's hard, because that picture was so perfect. I just have to find an equally perfect inspiration here!
Our views are spectacular. We can see Albuquerque spread out from the living room door. We are planning a deck for out there. From the mailbox, we can see Bernalillo and Santa Fe. I love feeling like I am rural, but knowing that I am really only 2 miles away from anything. I am a city girl, but I like not being in the city. Rio Rancho is a odd place though. When we go shopping, the store clerks actually ask us if we need help. Even at Lowes! I kind of wonder if we are in an alternate universe. Then I decide to shut up, and be happy with it.
Probably more to come later. And a poll, for the naming of the house:
[Poll #1439790]
