Settling In

We are slowly but surely getting things into place. 

Phillip has a list in his head of all the things he'd like to do, and every day we work on something.

The kids and I have been doing school. We have five weeks of school left, and we're counting them down.

Everyone loves this book nook. 

Phillip calls it the Theology Spot since his Bible commentaries are on the shelf. 

And we have a kitty! It's black like our San Antonio Nina. She looked very skinny. We noticed her a few days after we'd moved in. Phoebe has been feeding her and ingratiating herself. We haven't gotten close enough to pet her though. We heard there was a whole feline family (mom and kittens) when the last people moved out, but we've only seen this one. Something had died under the house before we moved in (it is smelling better now!) and it was quite possibly the rest of the cats.

Hopefully she's a mouser since we live out in the country. Phoebe thinks we'll call her Abigail (after Abigail Adams). Phillip calls her Sequel.

We are thrilled to be able to watch tractors out in the fields surrounding us! This one was tilling the ground right before we had several days of rain. I don't know what that means for the field. Maybe he'll have to till again? 

You can see a patch of dug-up yard where they had to dig up the septic tank because we had some backup. There were a bunch of roots growing in it. They cleared it out, and we'll be treating the septic with root killer. But yay for bathroom usage!

Jon and Harrison burned the boxes out on the gravel drive. That's one way to do it. The cardboard all burns up and the ash flies away.

At night I lay in bed reading, and I see through the kitchen door our plaid curtains and vintage oven. Mimi figured out that they probably got this oven in 1971. 

I. Love. It. 

We are still waiting on one more bookshelf that we ordered before all the books are put away. 

We had a leaky bathtub faucet, so Phillip watched some YouTube and bought some parts and after a couple of tries, he fixed it! 

No more leaks and we have nice new handles.

The boys' and girls' bedrooms share a closet between them. The closet used to be the porch to the original house. But Phillip wanted to separate the closet just so the kids could feel they had privacy, and no one would be sneaking into bedrooms to surprise each other.

So he built a wall. 

This is Phoebe's closet all finished. You can see he put shelves along the wall he built.

And Phoebe's room is all done now except we need to figure out why the heater won't work and also get her a mirror and table. We have one bathroom, so hair and fixing has to be done in the bedrooms so as to keep the bathroom free. We were the most worried about there being only one bathroom. But it really hasn't been an issue. We are sharing it quite nicely.