Slowly settling in

After the craziness of moving and trying to settle in, we took a couple of vacations and are now back in our new home. We've had two sets of guests already and are looking forward to more, though we're still getting things organized, hung, and optimized. In every room we trip over the art yet to go on the walls, and our first guest had a cool shower because we hadn't gotten the water heater recovery up to speed yet.

Jeff from Hammer and Hand came and took some beautiful photos of the house:

And Skylar set up energy monitoring for the house, which we can watch from an iPhone app. We have a new obsession (as does Sam, owner of Hammer & Hand)!

And Larry is molting. We were a bit concerned, as it coincided with our vacations and we wondered if he was stressed by loneliness (not likely!), but as it turns out this is completely normal -- and now we have beautiful feathers to give to our friends.

Larry is down to one lone long feather. We've been finding his feathers all over the property.

We have also sold our former home, so we can now focus all our energy on this house -- well, and the kids and their crazy activities schedule, of course. No rest for the weary!

Sunset from the deck.