Feathering our Nest…

For now nature pictures are on hold as I’ve been pre-occupied this week settling into our new nest.  Seems we are feathering it with boxes!

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How did we need all that stuff in order to live anyway?!  I’ve unpacked the things that make a house feel like home, a few things.

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The view from my writing desk couldn’t be more serene…

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Maps charting the far-flung locations of our children line the opposite wall,

as does our tandem and elliptical trainer.P1170374

It’s not a home décor idea you’re likely to find on Pinterest, but it works for us, and is perhaps appropriate for this migratory phase of our lives.

But even a migrant grandma needs a little corner of earth to tend. This is mine…P1170366

And I have brought along a lilac bush and some oregano, for their familiar beloved scents.P1170355

For color there will be moss rose just outside my window…P1170357

And there are always the living room walls!

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So here we are, all ready for company  [really! ]

Will you be the first?

–LS

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Good-bye Powell River

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Today is moving day.  The van is loaded. We’re on our way.

Ironically, this was the paper that came to our doorstep this week:

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Our baby flew North this morning to spend some time with her Grandma in Alaska!

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And we packed up with the help of friends and hit the road.

Good-bye Powell River……..

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Good-bye friends…

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Good-bye family home…

 

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…with the personal touches…

 

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Good-bye to the coast…

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And Thank-you God for so many years in such a paradise!

–LS

Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Ps.37:4

We came here as a family…

 

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We came here as a family; we’re leaving as a two-some.

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I’ve been busy packing away memories this week in hopes of sharing them with the next generation…

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Packing away the Dickens’ household only took part of an afternoon.

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One box per room.

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Oh that it were so simple  packing away the Skelton household!P1170291

Interjected in the packing, for sanity’s sake, are tandem rides and quick meals out, shared in picturesque places…

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By next week this time we will be officially homeless, with all our worldly goods boarding the ferry one last time…

It’s good to be in this thing together.

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–LS

“Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.” Ps.90:1