A Ladybug's Journey

So we moved in last weekend and have been able to get everything unpacked.  There's still some decorating to do, however here's some progress pics of the new house (and yard). First, the kitchen.  It's small, so I have to stand at each entry and use two photos to capture it. Next, the dining room, from the kitchen entry. A view of part of the living room (mirrored wall), kitchen, and dining room.   Second bathroom. Master bath. And now, the outdoors.  Right outside the sliding door is this beautiful bush, and below is a close up of one of the flowers. When we moved in, that green plant on the left bottom of the photo was taking over the whole walkway.  There's still more to clear on the other side, which you can see in the second photo. We believe there used to be something large in the back yard that covered the ground and didn't allow the grass to grow.  We're pretty certain that this is not natural (caused by shade

I'm exhausted.  We haven't even really start moving yet, but I'm beat.  Thursday and Friday afternoons were spent cleaning the new place.  It was completely filthy and smelled like wet dog.  After lots of effort and more today, the place is finally to the point where we are comfortable moving in furniture.  I still need to work on the floor of the shower in the master bath, along with finishing cleaning the blinds, but we're ready to start loading in some items.  We still have a week before we do the big push and get all of the furniture moved in, but we'll have everything else done by then to make it easier on the last day. Last weekend I think I sprained the lateral plantar muscle in my right foot.  It's been hurting ever since.  There will be much less pain in the morning, almost down to just a soreness, however after strenuous activity (cleaning/moving) it hurts to bad by night time that I have difficulty walking.  I'm trying to push through, as much a

I am so excited, we are moving to a house! We won't own it, we're renting, but I am still so excited.  I'm going to plant my own hydrangeas and california poppies!  Since moving here I can fallen in love with the vibrant orange of the california poppy, aren't they beautiful? Source Breathtaking aren't they?  They grow wild here just about anywhere it seems.  I've seen them along the side of the road, at Mount Pisgah in the parking lot and in people's yards.  I only found the name of them yesterday after I searched "orange wild flower" in google images.  Beautiful. If you follow my wedding blog you may have noticed my love for hydrangeas.  These beautiful flowers get their color from the minerals in the ground, so the same plant may have different colors from one year to the next, or even better, within the same bush.  My favorite are the blue and purple colors (especially the one below that is also mixed with green), however I am a huge fa