It stopped raining for about 5 seconds here, so I took the opportunity to snap a few photos of the outside of our new house. Everything is a little dirty and disheveled and a lot wet. One of the things I love most about living in the Pacific Northwest is how green everything becomes in winter. When I used to live in the South, I thought winter was so depressing because everything just died. here, the leaves fall off the trees, but the grass thrives and the dark skies make the green even more vibrant.

Because we weren't able to move into our house right after we bought it, we put a lot of energy into working on the yard and making a garden. It is still a work in progress, but I feel a great sense of satisfaction with what we were able to do. We focused on planting the "bones" of our perennial garden, and next spring we will fill in nearly all the space with loads of flowers. We reused old bricks and rocks we found in the yard as we cleaned it up. We've tried to recycle as much as possible as we've been working on our house. The back of our yard will be the vegetable garden, and boy do we have our work cut out for us there. We live in a neighborhood in Seattle that is home to throngs of rabbits. I'm not really sure how this happened (and if you live in Seattle and know something about the rabbits in Wallingford/Greenlake, I'd love to hear about it), but it's something that makes the neighborhood that much more unique. However, it also means we'll need to  protect  our  precious veggies from  the neighborhood bunnies next spring.

Vedo seems to be feeling better after getting his flea medication (he's actually lying on my arm, making it nearly impossible for me to type this), and the basement is in good shape. Now we can get back to hunkering down and relaxing in our new home.

Now I'm just going to watch the election results come in. You voted today, right? Good for you. :)