andyandeye's Blog

Well we are here. Not quite unpacked all the way. But getting into some type of groove.

The youngest 2 boys have been enrolled in summer school. And they really like it. Every Friday they get to go on a field trip. Tomorrow is a movie and field day at Smith-Cotton HS. I have to say, as much as I miss the quiet of my woods we left, I really love our new house. It's a real farm house on 5 acres of what was once a huge working farm w/ beef cattle. I find myself smiling at something new every day. I told Andrew yesterday that it's really noisy here. He said,"well we didn't have the road at our old house" I told him, that's not what I meant at all...

All the sounds are different. In the woods we had woodpeckers, cardinals, owls, dogs barking... But other than that and the wind, it was REALLY quiet.

Here we constantly have cows mooing, and tons of different types of birds chirping ALL the time. At our other house, the birds seemed to have a schedule. Early morning and mid afternoon. Then the crickets and frogs took over.

Here the birds are performing all day. We even have birds I've never seen or heard in person. Like a whiporwill(sp?), morning doves, Red winged black birds, and this CRAZY mocking bird. He sits about 20 feet above our deck in a pine tree doing every call you could imagine! We've named him Fred. I've come to the conclusion that Fred is just confused!!! LOL!

I can't figure out who he's going to mate w/ either. Cuz he calls everything from Cardinals to finches! RALMAO!!!

When I get some more time, I'll try to get some pics taken and posted.

The people here are amazingly nice. I got my very first welcoming pan of brownies the first night we moved in. And had coffee w/ the woman a couple of days ago. Come to find out, she knows my brother from years ago when he lived here and was the youth minister for her parish! She was actually on the panel that hired him. Too weird!

Then last weekend, we met our other neighbor. They've only lived in the country for 2 years, and have acquired 1 llama, 3 el pacas, 6 goats, 2 beautiful horses, a mini horse, 2 Angora Rabbits, 2 great peanease(beautiful dogs), and about 20 of these little yappie terrier dogs that she breeds, very expensive.

Now here's the thing, we've been wondering for weeks why in the heck would you want all of these animals. We found out that she SPINS YARN!!!! So cool. Like really, she combs or shaves the animals, then uses a spinning wheel to make yarn and knits cool stuff w/ it!!!! She told me she'd be happy to teach me! I'm excited about that for sure!!!

I really thinking I'm going to like it here.