poplar road

We didn't get to the bathroom to mount towel racks etc, although Richard did consider it long enough to realize the tile hiding behind the newer beige tub surround was going to make drilling holes for the shower curtain difficult. So the thing is still sitting there 'til next weekend. Ah well. Richard got distracted, helping out the neighbour who is trying to retreive his broken pump from 300 feet down in his well. Didn't work. I was making sauce for lasagna while painting trim, running back and forth from kitchen to office, but I got both tasks done, and Richard mounted the French door for my office.

I had cleanup to do after painting, and then we had dinner and company, so that was it for the night, no moving furniture. I hoped to get quite a bit done today, though, so I convinced Richard to leave me the camera when he left this morning on an overnight trip. I think the fact that we woke up to three inches of snow this morning helped. Yup, more snow pictures…These two are the view from my new office window, looking north and west. You might be able to see a swatch of the river on the north (left) view.

I hadn't got very far with the move into the office before the light faded, so I'm only posting one picture of it tonight, but more to follow as I finish unpacking the rest of this week. One thing that hasn't changed after several hours of unpacking, moving plants in, and arranging my desk: my stuff is dwarfed in this room. It's got 9 foot ceilings, which makes my tallest bookshelf suddenly look short; it's got two windows both over 10 feet wide and 5 feet tall, which makes my 5 foot desk look tiny. And no curtains or blinds yet so I feel very small and exposed.

But the fireplace looks excellent, I'm enjoying arranging my more light-loving plants on it, and unpacking candlesticks and things that I haven't seen in a while. Just wish I could find my last missing box of favourite books and DVDs, it's distressing. I unpacked 10 boxes tonight and most of it is put away, but my bookshelf is missing half my fiction and I can't think where else to look.

I'm exhausted, it was so exciting to finally unpack but that wore off about 3 hours ago… So here's one last picture of the snow and deep blue sky.

It was a gorgeous day, starting with a glimpse of the snow by starlight at 3:30am. Then at 7:30 as Richard was leaving we spotted four short, narrow-faced deer ambling along in the woods out back. This afternoon the sun came out and just look at that sky. Tonight I'll be listening for the pair of owls the neighbours told us about last night.

I might feel odd sitting in sight of the whole neighbourhood, especially at this hour, but as Richard said to Bud and Maxine yesterday, what a great neighbourhood it is. More on the wonderful neighbourhood next time I'm on the topic of spring.