Meeting the neighbors

Hi Everyone.   Happy Saturday.

Generally on Saturday night I reveal my Paper Players card.  However, I haven't even started that yet!  We left very early for the new house this morning and have only just gotten back.  I am thinking that as we still have to go shopping and prepare dinner – I might not get that card made tonight, either!

However, we did have an AWESOME visit at the new house.  In fact, we really didn't want to leave.  We kept saying, well, I suppose we had better go…. and then walked around a little more…. repeating this for at least an hour or so!  Everything is changing so much around us.  It's really pretty incredible.

We found that the siding is still not up on the house.  Mmmmmm… however….. they had left some of the siding in our front yard and Lou and I took one look at each other and decided it would make a great picnic table!  So we rushed off to Caribou, grabbed something to eat – and sat ourselves down in our new garden!

It was a glorious day… absolutely glorious.  It started off this morning exceptionally foggy, but at around 1pm it turned sunny and beautiful.  The siding made a great picnic table and somewhere to sit – it was just the right height.

Whilst we were sitting there, we noticed two chickadee's flying backwards and forwards into the tree directly in front of us.  I said to Lou that they must be nesting close by, because they were very, very quiet.   Suddenly, Lou looked up and realized that they were cleaning out a cavity in the tree.  So, we got to meet our new neighbors – building their new house – just like us!

Isn't that amazing!!!!!   We are so happy.  Especially as the tree is right in front of our house and we are literally at eye level when we look out from the deck door.

In fact, I took a picture looking out of the door (no deck in place yet!) and you can see the top of our fancy picnic table 🙂 – but you can also see the tree that the chickadees are nesting in

It's going to be fabulous when we can sit out on the deck and watch them fly in and out of their perfect little nesting place!

The chickadees were wonderful….but the highlight of the day was…. well…. AWESOME.  I was looking out of the deck door about 10 minutes after we arrived at the house.   Suddenly, I saw three cranes flying over the wetland.    I screeched with delight… well, actually, I must admit I swore – quite loudly.    I was stunned.  We had been told that they had been sighted occasionally in the wetlands, but I never expected that we would see them.     When we were getting our picnic ready, another 10 flew overhead and landed.   I can truly say that I was well and truly gobsmacked.   We heard them calling a few minutes later.  We have Sandhill Cranes as our new neighbors!  Now… those are the kinds of neighbors I am very happy to have.

About 10 minutes after that, we saw two vultures flying overhead.  We also heard the Redshouldered Blackbirds.  Saw a robin.  Saw and heard some song birds I still have to identify – difficult without binoculars!  Several different woodpeckers, including the Pileated and, of course, the bluejays.  No wonder we didn't want to leave the garden!

We also got a first view of the new colors that we chose at the end of the week.  I know that these are only the primers – but I am thinking they didn't mix the dining room paint the correct color.  The color is supposed to be "deep silver" and the color on the wall is distinctly blue!  It's a pretty color – but not silver!

We know the wooden floors are down… .but as they have a protective covering on them, we cannot get to appreciate them.   So, when you see this picture, I promise you that we don't have reddy-pink floors!   You can see that the dining room has also become a resting place for the tiles that get laid on Monday!

We are building a buffet in the recess that is being specially made for the space and it will have a granite top, which we still have to go choose.  We also have to find a mirror for the area above the buffet.  Oooooo goodie… another great excuse to go shopping! 🙂

I'll share some more pictures with you later in the week.    I can't believe that we will be in so soon.  Now… we just HAVE to get that packing done!

As always, thank you for visiting my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  You know your visits and your support are greatly appreciated.

Warm hugs and prayers for those who need a little lift tonight.   Pammie… I am so proud of you!

Hugs

Jaydee