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New Surprise
We’ve been on the new property for over a month now, and are continuing to discover surprises. When one of the contractors was surveying our place to quote some work, I heard him say, “Oh, you have an eagle.”
An eagle? What did he mean by that?
He pointed to it.
For the entire time I have been walking this property, starting with the visits before making an offer, through the many visits after our offer was accepted, then for weeks, (WEEKS!) after we have been living here, I failed to discover a statue of a perched eagle located near the entrance to the barn. Granted, it had been swallowed by growing things, which created a canopy that completely hid the eagle’s profile…
But, it only took this guy a few seconds to spot it as he walked by to view the space behind the barn.
I’m wondering about the origin of the piece, and also the decision for its placement. I’ll be checking with the folks who sold us the property, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was here when they bought the place.
They told us that’s why they left the bear. It was from the previous owner, and our sellers felt it should stay with the property. We are discovering there are multiple things left from previous owners. The old barbed wire fence was here long before the log home was built, which happened in 1990.
It’s been fun discovering little surprises like this one. They continue to make this place seem more and more special every day!
Pictorial Review
Cyndie putting the final touches on the Thanksgiving spread
Gathering around the old family table.
November morning with a new dusting of snow.
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Footprints in the new snow
Pequenita up on the highest shelf of the closet
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Mozyr watching the wildlife on our deck
Happy Thanksgiving
Today is the annual Thanksgiving holiday in the US, where tradition has it that we prepare a feast, with roast turkey being the most common main course. We will not be parting with tradition. In fact, we are combining new and old, cooking the traditional meal to be served on the old family table, but the turkey will be cooked in the brand new roaster Cyndie bought for the occasion, and we are hosting Thanksgiving dinner in our new house for the first time.
There is a lot that we are thankful for this year. I will take this opportunity to thank you for following our adventures here, and for being a part of Relative Something.
Spinning Around
Some days it seems easy, some days it’s as if everything is in front of my brain declaring a need for attention all at the same time. My computer and iPad at home, and my computer at the day-job all have searches and files saved with research, manuals and instructions, …buying information. Maintenance recommendations for the water softener. A log splitter. Air compressors. The Wisconsin Department of Forestry. We should have a different vehicle. I want a Jeep, but we could sure use the hauling ability of a pickup truck. Too bad I really could use a high mileage vehicle right now. It’s got my head spinning. So much for my list of items sorted by priority.
One trick I use to counter the spin is creating images like this one. It’s a different kind of spin. One that works for me.
I haven’t had a chance yet to tell our friends who visited us recently, and who exhausted every option troubleshooting an outdoor light that wasn’t working for us, that I found the switch that controls it. I had researched the cost of buying a replacement fixture and was moments short of contacting the folks who sold us this property, to confirm I wasn’t missing something, when I decided to make one more effort to look for a switch. I don’t know why we missed it that other night. Maybe it was a little farther from the side of the door than we expected it would be. But when I stepped up and peeked behind the dresser that we had placed beside the door, I immediately saw the switch, right in the middle of the back of it.
The whole time Ryan was trying to discover why it wouldn’t light, it was the simple reason of the switch behind my dresser being in the ‘off’ position.
No wonder I find my head spinning sometimes.
Calm Here
It is a curious feeling to have such serene weather at the same time that the unprecedented super storm trashed the east cost of the US. Of course, in the time before electronics, people didn’t have real-time knowledge of what is occurring in other places in the world. What’s the difference in when we learn about other areas that suffer disasters? I don’t know.
We are thoroughly enjoying the new vistas available from the deck of our home.
Here is a shot of the serenity we enjoyed on our early morning on the day after the historic storm pummeled millions of people to the east:
Amazing Change
This is an amazing time of change for us.
Amazing, beautiful, thrilling, intimidating, exhilarating, bucolic, inspiring, exhausting, all-encompassing change.
Relative Something 