Moving Day

Moving day has come and gone. It was a whirlwind! For starters it rained - and I mean it RAINED all.day.long on Saturday before turning into a frozen mix in the late afternoon. I'm thinking it was probably the worst day weather-wise to move to a farm with no driveway! The yard was mostly mud as you can see in the photo and the U-Haul got stuck as Adam was backing it in. This is as close as we could get the truck to the house so everything had to be carried quite a ways. After unloading and as Adam was trying to get unstuck, a kind man in a heavy duty pickup was driving by and noticed we need help. He was able to use his truck to pull out the U-Haul and we were good to go! God sends people to help at just the right time. Much like the guys from church who came to help us move even though the weather was awful. They sacrificed their Saturday afternoon to carry furniture and boxes in the cold rain.

We are on Day 5 at the homestead and I finally feel like we are getting to a place of normalcy. We are mostly unpacked (except for the homeschool room/office which I will be working on some more tomorrow) and we are feeling quite at home here. We've had some good weather days with warm air and lots of sunshine, and today it poured down rain most of the day but was still kind of warm.

We've started to work in the garden. I planted peas and cabbage already. We've dug up weeds and are planning to plant some more cool-weather veggies over the weekend. We have raised beds and a regular garden. We're starting with the raised beds because the garden is absolutely covered with weeds. It should be interesting trying to keep the garden weeded this summer!

Another adventure in the last five days has been technology related and not all that fun. We finally got all our internet stuff squared away after a couple frustrating days. But the worst was dropping my cell phone in the creek on Sunday evening when we were taking a walk/hike. It spent a long 10 minutes submerged in water before Adam found it. Fortunately, I had a Lifeproof case on it. Unfortunately, I didn't have the headphone jack cap on it and some water got in. It spent a few days in a bowl of rice and all is mostly well with it now. The only (seemingly) permanent damage is that it no longer rings and I can't use headphones with it. Oh, well! I'm just thankful I didn't need to buy a new phone.

Being without my "lifeline" for a few days was nice. Like, really nice. I liked being disconnected. It was more of a relief than an inconvenience. I'll have to write more of my thoughts about that another time.

Anyway, I'm glad to be here. Really, really glad. It's awesome being out in the beautiful country. I don't know how many times a day I catch myself just gazing out the window, breathing in the fresh air, and listening to the wind and birds. It's peaceful and pure loveliness.