We collect rain water in our rain barrels for use in the garden. Since Attila set them up, we have received little rain. Today it is raining, and the tanks are beginning to fill. This will be great right now, because setting up the new raised beds will require a lot of water. As each layer of logs, yard waste, straw, and soil go into the raised bed, they are heavily watered to promote decomposition.
While Attila toils in the soil, I am occupied with organizing the pantry. Putting like things together is taking some time, Attila moved our items around higgledy-piggledy. I am finding little treasures everywhere I look, collecting such things as a bottle of juice, then finding one there. It is like an Easter Egg Hunt, and just as much fun.
Much of what we have is in random sized boxes, which it turns out wastes an incredible amount of shelf space. I will be on the lookout for boxes at the grocery store, of just the right size. Boxes are preferable for shelf storage, as they prevent items from tipping over the edge, and facilitate seeing what is deep in the shelf, by just pulling them out a bit. It will take some time to collect the correct size boxes for this project, recycling used produce boxes from the grocery store is the plan.
It will take a few weeks to get the pantry organized. THEN the rest of the basement needs to be organized. This will probably take the most of the summer months, and go on well into the fall.
When the basement is organized, it will at last be time to finish moving into this house. We have been here almost ten years, and although the chaos has diminished steadily, it still reigns supreme. I look forward to a time when I can find what I am looking for!
Attila and I continue to enjoy our jigsaw puzzles. We usually turn off all the technology, the tablets, computers, etc., and settle down at the card table where the puzzle is set out. We work on the puzzle for an hour or so, then we head off to bed. My Mom and sister do jigsaw puzzles. Mom borrows them from the library, works a treat she says, such a great idea. I contacted our library, it isn’t a service here, yet anyway.
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Date: 3:39 PM EDT Monday 21 April 2025
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“Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
It’s hard to believe I’ve read your posts for more than 10 years! It feels like it couldn’t be that long, and yet I know I started reading well before you moved to this little house. I remember quietly watching the choices you made, hoping against hope that you would choose to move because it seemed that the move would be so much better for both you and Attila, and so it has been, I believe.
Teri, time flies doesn’t it! I read your blog when you kept it online. So much water under the bridge, and much more to come I hope, for all of us.
The move to Mist Cottage was a great choice for us, we are both happy here. Although the country house was beautiful, having waterfront access at the door was pleasant. However the winters were long and harsh, the black flies and mosquitoes dominated life during their long, long season. The communities of the near north that I knew and loved were gone, only remnants remained. What took the place of those communities were urban based seasonal people, and the term community, as I had experienced it years before, no longer had meaning there. All this to say, we are much happier to be living at Mist Cottage. I do not regret having given it a go at the Country House, but we don’t miss it at all, not for a second.