We are moving!

It's been crazy around here for several months as we looked for a house we could afford and fretted over the amount of rent and heating fuel we pay for a house that is only warm in warm weather. I won't go into details here about ignorant landlords and other troubles we've encountered, as these have been eclipsed by some good fortune that has come our way at long last. Not monetary fortune, unfortunately, at least not in the sense of winning a lottery or being given a bucket of money. No, our good fortune has been to find a house we can afford and to actually buy it! No more rent--just a mortgage payment that combined with taxes and insurance is far less than what we have been paying to the insensitive pricks who own the property where we live in Ontario.

Our house (and boy, is it ever wonderful to be able to write those two words!) is in beautiful New Brunswick, very near the Atlantic coast--less than two miles from the ocean! We have 39 acres with lots of trees and a fair amount of privacy, although we do have neighbors in view unlike here in Mattawa, so we can take Dudley and most of our chickens and live the way we want to live. The house is a bit small, considering the amount of stuff I have to put in it, but I'll manage somehow. It has three small bedrooms, a good-sized living room and a kitchen with quite a few cabinets with room on top for baskets and other pretty storage containers (and cats!). We are having a new roof, fascia and veranda put on, as well as a new deck on the back, so the roughness of the outside will be smoothed out quite a bit, especially after we finish the veranda and deck. Eventually we will enclose the veranda, but for now we'll leave it open.

I have a lot of packing and stacking to do before the movers come, so I need to get back to it. The adrenalin is flowing, thank goodness, so I am able to do what needs to be done. I can hardly wait to get through this move and be able to relax at home or at the beach (!) with Toad and Sadie. I have the rest of my life to unpack and redecorate. Life is good.