Oh Deer
We escaped. Again.
You may remember back when all this started in December, there was a day we got away from it all. We did an overnighter up in Phoenicia and tried to purge all things medical and malignant from our minds. It was a frozen moment of bliss for us.
And then we had to face reality for a few months. Until four days ago.
This past weekend was the first time, since that day in December, that we've been up at the house and haven't spent our entire time there plotting how to get the place in shape.
In the five months since December 30th, a lot has happened upstate: drainage ditches were excavated, swales dug, gutters attached, roofs repaired and caulked, framing shored, doors and ducts repaired, walls ripped out and replaced, etc. Plus a few cosmetic but necessary things for creature comfort: paint and carpet.
The last of the carpet was laid by 11am Saturday morning, and Jody and I, for the first time, were able to relax a little in our spartan, mostly unfurnished surroundings, and say, "Yeah, this is starting to work."
We'll still spend most of our time in Phoenicia working on the house—heck, just this weekend we put together two beds and a bunch of nightstands, and there's the matter of an entire kitchen to be created (poof!) from thin air—but we'll also be able to chill and watch a movie, read a book, or listen to the sounds of the inchworm infestation munching the trees outside.
And there will also be the occasional unexpected country surprise. Such as the view from our bedroom window at 6:45am on Sunday:
You may remember back when all this started in December, there was a day we got away from it all. We did an overnighter up in Phoenicia and tried to purge all things medical and malignant from our minds. It was a frozen moment of bliss for us.
And then we had to face reality for a few months. Until four days ago.
This past weekend was the first time, since that day in December, that we've been up at the house and haven't spent our entire time there plotting how to get the place in shape.
In the five months since December 30th, a lot has happened upstate: drainage ditches were excavated, swales dug, gutters attached, roofs repaired and caulked, framing shored, doors and ducts repaired, walls ripped out and replaced, etc. Plus a few cosmetic but necessary things for creature comfort: paint and carpet.
The last of the carpet was laid by 11am Saturday morning, and Jody and I, for the first time, were able to relax a little in our spartan, mostly unfurnished surroundings, and say, "Yeah, this is starting to work."
We'll still spend most of our time in Phoenicia working on the house—heck, just this weekend we put together two beds and a bunch of nightstands, and there's the matter of an entire kitchen to be created (poof!) from thin air—but we'll also be able to chill and watch a movie, read a book, or listen to the sounds of the inchworm infestation munching the trees outside.
And there will also be the occasional unexpected country surprise. Such as the view from our bedroom window at 6:45am on Sunday:
posted by Zachary Knower at 3:06 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds like a little bit of heaven up there to me, complete with delightful and unexpected guests... :)
it's grand, eh?!
Course, if you REALLY wanna see deer, come up to the Methow Valley. There's a bona fide infestation up there-- we call 'em "range rodents". ;)
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