Every few weeks I pull up this website just to see what's going on. Up until now, for many reasons, I haven't really had the time to participate. Tonight, though, the kittens and puppy are asleep, DH is watching tv, and I have nothing planned for the weekend that I have to prepare for. What? Free time?!? Yay!
It has been several months since I've been here for more than a couple of minutes. We sold the farm, moved to Delaware, and last you all heard from me we had a new kitten. It has been a busy time since then.
Mostly, I've been a little embarassed to return. I just didn't transition to our new area very well, and after a rough few months I was actually considering another move. I had a weird life at the farm, rather solitary and doing my own thing, I really had no idea how to make friends and I felt very intimidated.
I won't go into the details, but it has only been in the last 6 weeks or so that I've found my niche. And it has been wonderful! One friend (met when I offered her an extra sage plant), a party invitation, meeting more people with similar interests, more parties, more friends... I often find myself wondering if I'm dreaming. I have friends now who like to cook, who enjoy entertaining, I've joined them playing pickleball once or twice a week, we have birthday lunches, game nights, and last week I went to my first movie since 1994 (it was always too much of a hassle when we lived at the farm, and I'd fall asleep in the theatre, anyway!).
We participated in an awesome progressive dinner in January, 30 people in all, and it was incredible (both the food and the new friends).
Our kitten, Shadow, has now been joined by a younger kitten, Onyx, who was rescued from NC. We also have a new puppy, almost 12 weeks old, a black lab-chow mix we named Bear (rescued from AL). Everyone is adjusing well.
I hope to be able to come here more often. I have to raise the bar on my entertaining, because there are some really good cooks in our development. REALLY good. I've made baked items, which now have become what everyone requests when I ask "what can I bring?", but in April we will have our dining room set up and I will have to start to repay dinner invitations. I will need your help!
And before I forget, there was a nasty storm at the beginning of the month and both Jean and Maryann emailed me to ask how we fared. I was so touched, and I so appreciate your thinking of me even though I've been AWOL for so long! BTW, we were fine here. It rained, then snowed, then rained, then the coast and the canal flooded (worse than when Sandy came through), but we only had some nasty high winds and yard cleanup afterward. Better than 5 minutes' away where there were feet of water in the street that were filled with chunks of ice...
Now I'm going to figure out how to post photos of the new family members... nice to be back.
It has been several months since I've been here for more than a couple of minutes. We sold the farm, moved to Delaware, and last you all heard from me we had a new kitten. It has been a busy time since then.
Mostly, I've been a little embarassed to return. I just didn't transition to our new area very well, and after a rough few months I was actually considering another move. I had a weird life at the farm, rather solitary and doing my own thing, I really had no idea how to make friends and I felt very intimidated.
I won't go into the details, but it has only been in the last 6 weeks or so that I've found my niche. And it has been wonderful! One friend (met when I offered her an extra sage plant), a party invitation, meeting more people with similar interests, more parties, more friends... I often find myself wondering if I'm dreaming. I have friends now who like to cook, who enjoy entertaining, I've joined them playing pickleball once or twice a week, we have birthday lunches, game nights, and last week I went to my first movie since 1994 (it was always too much of a hassle when we lived at the farm, and I'd fall asleep in the theatre, anyway!).
We participated in an awesome progressive dinner in January, 30 people in all, and it was incredible (both the food and the new friends).
Our kitten, Shadow, has now been joined by a younger kitten, Onyx, who was rescued from NC. We also have a new puppy, almost 12 weeks old, a black lab-chow mix we named Bear (rescued from AL). Everyone is adjusing well.
I hope to be able to come here more often. I have to raise the bar on my entertaining, because there are some really good cooks in our development. REALLY good. I've made baked items, which now have become what everyone requests when I ask "what can I bring?", but in April we will have our dining room set up and I will have to start to repay dinner invitations. I will need your help!
And before I forget, there was a nasty storm at the beginning of the month and both Jean and Maryann emailed me to ask how we fared. I was so touched, and I so appreciate your thinking of me even though I've been AWOL for so long! BTW, we were fine here. It rained, then snowed, then rained, then the coast and the canal flooded (worse than when Sandy came through), but we only had some nasty high winds and yard cleanup afterward. Better than 5 minutes' away where there were feet of water in the street that were filled with chunks of ice...
Now I'm going to figure out how to post photos of the new family members... nice to be back.