I'm tired...

After a long week of "moving in", I'm tired. Okay, so we aren't completely finished moving everything in from the garage (yes, a 2-car garage!). We have made a lot of progress, though.

The greatest challenge thus far was, of all things, finding curtains that looked decent in the master BR. The first few days that we were here there were absolutely no curtains on the one window (with a giant arch at the top) that just so happens to face East. So every morning at about 6:30 the sun was right in our eyes. Four or five trips to various stores (in only two days), we finally have curtains. Doesn't do anything for that arch above the window. We bought one of those accordion temporary shades to put up there, and only after cutting is to the exact length necessary and affixing it to one side of the frame did we discover that it was the wrong length (ie: wouldn't arc from one side to the other). AAARRGHGHGH!!!

Our backyard came with a small fish pond. It already had one fancy goldfish (orange and white fantail) which we couldn't even see when we first moved in. The water was completely green with algae. The fish, after cleaning the pond, was still really sluggish and seemed bored. So we bought four more fish (2 fantail golds and 2 Mickey Mouse Platy). They have a lot of fun together now and all of them do figure-8s around the pond. We thing we have some fishy babies, too. The Micky Mouse fish give birth to live young, and we saw several little orange "tadpoles" at the bottom yesterday.

We also have spent a good bit of time rearranging the plants in the backyard landscaping. Maybe we shouldn't have move some... they aren't doing very well. But who can be sure if it is from us moving them or from the weather (we haven't seen a drop of rain and most days temps have been 100+).

It's nearly 9 am here and Danny is finally sleeping in. He starts 3 days of orientation/training on Wednesday, and begins inservice next week. That's right... no bandcamp!

Send me some love... it's going to get lonely out here.