Finally, here are the pics from the rest of the house! Click on each picture to enlarge for more detail. We still have lots of things to hang on the walls and decorate to make it more cozy, but we've really been enjoying all of the space compared to our littl
e apartment! The living room and kitchen are both huge open rooms, with high ceilings and low windows. I have been enjoying the big island in the kitchen, in fact, we sit at the bar and eat every once in a while. The door in the kitchen opens onto the porch in the backyard.
The guest ro
om is ready for visitors at any time! Otis spends the night in his big box, but cruises the backyard during daylight hours. We need to have some visitors because we keep referring to it as the "repti-room" haha. The guest bathroom is quite spacious and includes a washer and dryer (you can see the reflection of the laundry room doors in the mirror). Every room has a ceiling fan and we hav
en't turned on the heat or the a/c since we've been here! All of the big windows provide us with nice fresh air and since the house is surrounded by trees, its really not that hot, at least not yet!
The master bedroom
seems vast, including the plentiful closet space! I can really get used to it though :) We can hear and see birds out the huge windows, right from the bed! (Notice my clothesline through the
window on the right.) We've also discovered that Maverick spends his entire day napping on the bed while we're away, as you can see in this picture taken after work. I put out his favorite blankie, so he can be comfy, but he makes quite a nest while we're away! And he thinks we don't even notice, silly Maverick.
The backyard is really coming along- our garden is sprouting up all kinds of green stuff, and our tomatoes actually have blossoms, yay! The area to the right where the hummingbird feeders are hanging is seeded with wildflowers and will be attracting butterflies, birdies, and dragonflies in no time. We've been watching our hummers out there and one has some white paint on his head (h
e probably was caught before and is under study by someone nearby... Ben is checking into it.) Chickadees, cardinals, and a brown thrasher have been visiting the feeder already, and Ben just put it up this weekend! And those are my new azalea bushes behind the feeder.
We're really loving in our new woodland oasis :)
Thank you Mom for taking such good care of our boy for a whole week; he had such a good time running around in the woods. We know for sure that he was a happy dog because he ate every single meal (and has since he's been back at the beach, too
!) While Ben and I were visiting, Maverick tried all kinds of new things, such as eating watermelon on the front lawn and jumping through hula hoops. He saw cows and a baby one licked him on the head!
and neither of us wore the same outfit! It was wonderful to catch up with everyone from high school and introduce Ben to the old gang. And we even got to meet the newest member of Dave's family, little Noah. Tiny little cutie pie!
and neither of us wore the same outfit! It was wonderful to catch up with everyone from high school and introduce Ben to the old gang. And we even got to meet the newest member of Dave's family, little Noah. Tiny little cutie pie!
