Just an update.
I am one pooped person.
We shopped.
We got the keys to the house late yesterday, and the deed has been filed. We are officially the owners of Puffin Hacienda. The Contrarian prefers that title, and prefers that you now refer to him as Don Contrarian, if you please. Yeah, I know, I told him to go soak his head too.
I do think a name is in order for our new New Mexican home though. Puffin seems wrong, since there are no nests or sea shore near by. We nearly made an offer on a place located on Leaping Lizard Loop. Now that is a name doncha think? So, given that we are in the foothills of the Organ Mountains on the way to the White Sands Missile Range, and on the way to Alamagordo. We have yuccas and other desert like plants, and no doubt plenty of gecko-ey like lizards around. So offer up a name for our abode!
As I said, we shopped.
We bought a sofa, chest of drawers, dining room set, lazy boy, coffee table, two end tables, another occasional chair for the library, and a entertainment center for the big screen. We have about 3 more chairs to buy and patio furniture, all the book cases, and some kitchen cabinets and kitchten top to construct a work area in my craft room. Also the washer and dryer. First we are building a stand to raise them up since I’m getting front loaders.
I also purchased bedding and towels and a shower curtain.
The bulk of the furniture is being delivered on Monday. The POD arrives on Tuesday, the Direct TV and WiFi is being hooked up on Friday. So we are moving over on Monday, since it will be no worse than we have here, actually a bit better. No cooking equipment, but a microwave and fridge, and couch and chair, dining table, bed and one bathroom worth of stuff. Whew.
So we are moving along. Still a lot of crap stuff to do, such as register the car, new driver’s licenses, VA tax waivers to fill out, yada yada yada. But given that a year ago I was on the way other end of this, I think we are moving along darn well. At least the light at the end of the tunnel is getting bright enough to look for sunglasses.
Thanks for all your good wishes, and let me know if you can think of a name for our hacienda. And yes, I keep thinking that the Feather needs a new name now too, so offer it up if it comes to you.
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So from Monday until Friday no Internet. How will I survive? lol…
Wow, you have been busy. I’ll think of a name and if one pops into the old brain I’ll stop by and deliver.
Busy, busy, but happy, too! So glad for you! When you have the time, which may be far off in the future, send me your new address, ok?
many people in the desert SW have little side rooms for guests which they call “casitas” …so La Casita grande? (since this is a house not a one room guest space)…or lizard references don’t sound very appealing, so I’m leaning against that image (although surely there are lizards aplenty). I did see a gila monster once – it was absolutely beautiful, all iridescent pink and black. granted, we totally kept our distane, since they are viscious if they attack (one mean, poisionous bite)….la gila casita? or, perhaps, the sand castle? yeah, I like “the sand castle”….but what I like doesn’t matter – you live there, not me. LOL
I can come up with lots of bad ideas…lol
I’m thinking “Casita Pluma” (feather). But a feather no longer adrift!
Congrats! And a hacienda no less, with all the newly-purchased trimmings. I’m envious! Not of the moving, but of all the fun new stuff now gracing your new abode.
How about Casa de Sol?