No Events Scheduled

My calendar said I had no events scheduled for today, so I could relax, rest and imbibe my new surroundings as much as I wanted.

Some of you have asked about our container and household goods, and I keep forgetting to update you. Dale (of course) put a tracker on the outside of our container during loading, so we can follow its progress online. It was at a railyard in Worcester, MA for about a week, but has now moved to NJ, where it is presumably waiting to be loaded onto the ship. We have no real indication of when it will arrive here.

In the meanwhile, we're "camping" at home, in style. We have 2 mugs, 2 forks, some drinking glasses, a few plates, computers (but of course), sleeping bags, some towels and pots. We have a bed, desks, a dining table and chairs, as well as some comfy chairs that we got 2nd hand in January. Everything else that we need, we already own, but they're on their own seafaring journey, so we must be patient for proper bedding and a TV.

We're discovering little things all over the place - pails, baskets, gardening gloves and shears, a walker, cement garden ornaments, and two wheelbarrows. We knew that the previous owner had 'a thing' for roses, but I think that 'rose-hoarder' might be a better term. They're everywhere, beautiful yet very, very thorny and overgrown for someone who likes to bushwhack her way through the yard... also a big danger when you're tall and walking along a narrow path or trying to sit down under the pergola. They've GOT to be trimmed back harshly in order for us to coexist. I might have to invest in some chain mail or a suit of armor to tackle this thorny growth, because the thorns have gone through my gardening gloves and my breathable sneakers.

Many shrubs and flowers in the yard are held up with little clips but my purist philosophy can't handle them. They look jarring and unnatural to me. I really don't mind a wild garden (when it's not thorny) that follows natural lines; it really doesn't have to be upright.

The pond liners are leaking, so the water level keeps going down. There are hostas, irises, astilbe, yellow azaleas that smell wonderful, mosses and rough horsetail near the pond.

Only a few spots of rain today. Working in the yard was awesome!