We're HERE, we're HERE!!!
For those of you playing along at home, CL and I are safely ensconced in our new, groundfloor, hardwood LIGHT FILLED, gorgeous, gorgeous little campus apartment. We're on the same "level" of campus as my classroom and the library, the dining hall (closed for the summer, of course, so we've actually had to buy groceries and cook) and mail are above us, on the hill, and we're surrounded by deer, horses, bumble bees, honey bees and BUTTERFLIES!
Within ten seconds of stepping out onto our patio I had a giant yellow and black swallowtail on my wrist. Nothing but daisies from then on!
Our poor wee pet rat, Effie, has been pretty miserable since her surgery last Monday. She chewed her stitches out and I was beside myself when I saw her licking and gnawing at the wound. Plus, she wouldn't take her antibiotics. BAD. So we took her to a vet up the road, and now she's all stitched up again and has a "t-shirt" to wear for the next 10 days AND we have new meds. that are much tastier and a smaller dose, so even though it was rough going for the first few days in our new home, things are looking up!
It's quiet here, since most of the faculty have other homes to play in during the summer, but I can't say I mind. We live down the hill from a sweet biology teacher with a nice doggie, and I'm content to patter about our pad, slowly unpacking boxes and placing all my pretty things out in the light again. The LIGHT, y'all! It's breathtaking and joyful and it positively FILLS our whole place from the double french doors in the living/dining room to the hall windows in our bedroom and even in the lovely, mock-orange bush shrouded, butterfly covered windows in the study. It's heaven, compared to our dim, crowded former dwelling.
I can feel it - life is about to begin. This is just the orchestra warming up on stage. Soon - the symphony!
Love,
Jillian
