Seven

Been pretty busy lately... we bought a home. That's 'Diva with our "Sold" sign from the street. When she went for first sniffs I said to her, "G, you will be here forever, because I will bury you here, this is your sacred ground." She seemed cool with it. She has since made official her fav spots, including a ceremonious scratching of the surface in an exquisitely climate controlled dirt patch.

Our first night home: Joe declined to be misled by my optimism that we would get the keys any earlier than June 17th, but we did, so late on the 16th we brought over sleeping bags, some art, some guitars, the dog and a bottle of champagne. We probably should have slept on a floor with radiant heating, but our new living room will never seem as spacious and unbelievably ours as it did that first night with nothing in the house but us. 

Yesterday, weeding the veggie starts before work I heard something in the hill above the rock wall. I ran upstairs so that Joe could simply look out the bedroom window and see a beautiful deer with her polka-dotted fawn twins walk past. 

This is my happiest place on earth.

Other news keeping me very busy: I just started graduate school.