Home Is Where The Heart Is

Ahhhh....HOME!   Although I've been here since the last of March, at last I feel caught up enough to get back to writing my blog.  We arrived safely after a very nice trip on dry roads and 'calm seas' on the inside.  Miss Lizzie was a very good rider this time and only complained a couple of times in the afternoon when she had endured just about ENOUGH of the whole traveling thing.  Then she did speak up and strongly suggest that just maybe we ought to call it a day!  She seemed to take the strange overnight rooms in stride this time and didn't give us any grief in that department.  Of course she was feeling considerably better than on the trip south in Oct. while still recuperating  after having 4 teeth removed. She seems to know when we are nearing home.  She comes up front and tries to see just where we are.  We can see her anticipation!

It was wonderful to arrive and find the driveway all shoveled and even a path up the walk from the drive all nice and wide.  And to come inside and find Angel warming her feet almost in the oven of the old wood stove she had built a nice fire in!  It had warmed things up quite a bit and was such a nice 'welcome home' !   First thing to unload is always the cooler and acting as part of the ice for the cooler, is always a nice container of homemade soup of some kind.  That always goes into a pot and finishes thawing atop the wood stove in time for our supper.  SO  all that is finished and all 'stuff' is put away.  Cleaning isn't much of a problem as I leave things really tidy and the fall cleaning done.   We've spent time with friends and catching up on things. Been to a class luncheon and reconnected with my knitting group and attended the Daniel Plan classes. So it has been a busy month getting back into the groove.  Missed the sugaring time this year as it was a pretty iffy one anyway.  There was plenty of snow so no problem if anyone wanted to have some sugar on snow!  Passed that by this time.

Now I have a nice project started!  A sweet little Potting Shed for the back yard!  With a little, very clever engineering, my gifted-in-these-matters  hubby returned the little building that once he built for Angel for a playhouse and which later became a 'waiting room', to our back yard....and all by himself I might add! I heard him felling a small tree along our bank with which he made a couple of skids to get the little shed up onto for the haul across the way and around back. The awesome part was how he got the shed turned around and backed in where we had decided to 'plant' it !!  Using his garden tractor with a plow on the front to do the pulling and pushing and with a tiny bit of help placing some bricks under his levers from a screeching wife who was afraid that we would dump the whole thing over the bank!!  But now it is all set in place on it's rock foundation and has a new picture window installed in the back with a fabulous view up the Black River where the water falls over the Tolls Dam with Mt. Ascutney and Pine Hill as a back drop. AMAZING!!  Now I need warm weather for painting and making some window boxes for flowers and some little shutters for a little color.  When it is presentable, I will post a before and after picture and just may hold open house !!

We have also had a chance, at Family Sunday, which Angel and Paul host the first Sunday of each month, to get acquainted and collect hugs and cuddles with our little gr. granddaughter, Selena!  We only got to meet her once before leaving in the fall.  What a cutie!!

           Selena in her Easter Dress.

I wish you all a very Happy and Blessed Easter.  

"He knew me ... and yet, He loved me!

He, who's glory made all Heaven shine!
I was so unworthy of such mercy,
Oh, but when He was on the cross
I was on His mind!"

from a favorite Easter song of mine.