Some Photos of my New Digs

It's nice here in Santa Fe, and the house is coming along nicely as well.  We are having a bit of chilly weather right now, so the weekend was spent doing more stuff inside where it is comfortable.  It's a windy day; glad we got one of the big windchimes hung.  Sounds great.

First, here is the living room:

This above shot is from the kitchen looking toward the front door.  This next one is from the hallway.  I love how great my stuff looks in this house:


The next photos are of my kitchen, quite a bit larger than what I had gotten used to in Willsboro.  Biggest adjustment, of course, is the gas range.  It has been MANY years since I had gas in the kitchen.  Not THAT kind of gas!

This next room is nice to have: an actual office.  We'll call it an office/library.

The bathrooms are nice.  The master needs to have the carpet taken out at some point.  I HATE carpet in the bathroom, but it is what it is.  It does have a separate water closet, which is tiled.  The main bath has a nicely tiled shower; we have ordered curtains from JC Penney that will be beautiful in the room.  My curtains from my last bath are perfect for the master.

The yard needs some work.  It has plenty of spaces for the boys to play and do their business, but no grass.  I'll be putting sod in on the side of the house this spring, and probably a patch of grass beside the garage.  We have to clean out behind the garage as there are some grass burrs, which hurt the Beagle boys' pads!  But the mulch we put down on the side of the house for the winter will be moved to behind the garage.  And I'll have to figure out what I want to do about this large raised bed.  Dana and I were thinking maybe putting grass in the center and only using the four corners for actually gardening.  The boys like jumping up there.  But I'd have to figure out how to keep that grass from making its way into the herbs, vegetables and flowers.  More pondering is required.  It is actually larger than it looks in this photo!

The boys are adjusting nicely to their house, as you can see.  Atticus even fell asleep in the middle of playing.  How cute!