Pretty much moved in now...Thank goodness!!!

Hi all...sorry for so long a lapse in posts. As usual been busy with the moving process. Lets see if I can briefly catch you up....

I guess since I wrote last we were here for a couple of weeks...did a bit of entertaining and putting away of more stuff. We did celebrate our 20th anniversary here in our new house! A wonderful evening...lobster and champagne! Then on June12th we left for Michigan again to take the trailer back to our friend, who lent it to us, and to get another load. We were there until the the 21st. After a nice service and Father's Day breakfast at our wonderful little church in Tustin, we set off...knowing it was 100 degrees in MO and we have no AC anymore in the van! We survived....but let me just say...our showers that night were the best, I think we have had recently! While in Michigan were out every night with a different group of dear friends. Who will be our friends forever!! No doubt!! It was a great trip. However....we still did not get everything! Mike is going back in about a week to get another load and may have a sale to get rid of some stuff too. We still have winter coats there and Christmas decorations....of which, I have a LOT!! Come visit us at Christmas and see how we decorate this great old house! But we do have some stuff of Mike's there too...out in the garage and the bunk house. But really most all of the necessary stuff is now here! This trip we brought up some chests and 2 cedar chests, both of which have been in our families forever! They are coming in handy for storage too. Today I finally got most everything put away! Won't show you the basement yet...or the garage or storage shed. But most of MY stuff is not there.....that stuff belongs to my beloved packrat husband! AND the patio is still a work in progress too...but close to getting there. Hopefully will be kind of done before we have the kids and grandkids out for a BBQ this Sunday!!

Here is the latest picture of the front porch......



And this fantastic fern, I bought at a local store here with the proceeds of a gift certificate our realtor gave us. I LOVE this fern...and hope it lasts many, many years!

Here finally is the back porch....finally coming together......

And the dining room with the table! We found those pesky screws!

Here is the new pub table we bought for our kitchen. Come sit there with a glass of wine and talk to me while I cook. Note my wonderful lemon switch plates!!

Here is the latest view of our bedroom....with our new window AC...which we need to cool the upstairs. The downstairs does great with the central unit...these up (in each room) do supplement that...and we only have to have them on when we are up here.

Another view of our bedroom....

One of our guest rooms.......under the eaves......

Another view of it...it has a futon which will make into a double bed...and a single bed. The other one will have the same.....

Here is the second guest room...which we also use as our office and computer room. Has a futon now...and will have a twin bed soon...which will be put where I am standing to take the picture.

Another view of the office/2nd guest room.

That is about it for now. I notice that I need to post a new picture of our TV/family room. And the patio too once I get it done. May do that this weekend. That is my intention at any rate. Love to you all.....keep cool!