Our New Old House!

We have an appointment next week to sign a lease on this house. If all the work is completed and the porch is made livable, we'll officially be moving the end of the month. So there will be a couple of weeks to clean, do a little painting, prepare the yard for the dogs, put up a true-blue laundry line for line drying linens, and procure a few farm kittens!

This is our ultimate"choosing purposeful simplicity" experiment. We'll have well water, propane heating, no internet access, and no city lights to brighten up the night sky. There will be no basement for storage of all that stuff that I've been hanging on to but really does nothing but weigh us down. Closet space is limited so I'm being choosy about what to keep and what to give away, what to sell and what to toss. I'm looking forward to keeping the useful and beautiful and letting the rest go--living with less and using what we have.

This is the view from the kitchen window.

Makenna at the back of the yard.