Hmph. Well, I'll give myself a break on it--we've had a LOT going on.
I'll try to keep it short.
Throughout January and February, I tackled the job of dismantling and packing up the studio, and getting the house "HGTV-Ready" for its realty listing. We did list it...and a week later the Covid mess hit. Luckily, we found a buyer in that first week!
We had to get a rental here in the mountains while we build on our lot. Tricky, as this is a vacation town, and verrrrry few landlords accept pets. But we did it, and with TWO Uhaul loads up & down the mountains, we got moved to the rent house, the end of April.
Of course, then it's time to establish all that "stuff" you have to set up--a family doc, eye doc, dentist, a place to get oil changes, a new pet-vet, all the while we're getting house plans finalized, and a contract with the builder underway. (We had to fire the first one, but this second is a jewel!)
Now we're already in June, and I find myself with a lot of time on my hands. Our rent house is a tiny thing, so no room to set up a studio. In one room I do have my sewing machine set up, and a few projects saved out to save my sanity...but I confess I'm not inspired to do any of them yet. Maybe I need to get more desperate. Ha!
I am, however, getting lots of exercise. The first two weeks I could hardly believe the degree to which this elevation affected me--we're only a couple thousand feet higher than we were! Two things happened, due to the thinner air here: my dreams went haywire, and my caffeine headaches did too.
Apparently some people are greatly affected during REM sleep at higher altitudes, which is why I felt like I was dreaming--all night, every night. I still call my husband The Bear Whisperer because of one of those weird dreams. And the 1/2-life of caffeine (time it takes to clear your system) is twice as short as it is at a lower elevation. So my morning cups of half-caff wore off by noon, leaving me with a pounding java-withdrawal headache! I wrestled with this a bit, but in the end, I knew what I had to do.
So I bit the bullet and quit the coffee. Herbal tea anyone? The dreaming has gone back to my average levels--I've always been a vivid dreamer--and that's okay. The elevation doesn't make me need to sit down during walks with the dog like it did, but I still suck wind on the hills, lemme tell ya!
The house building project is taking waaaay longer than I want it to, of course. But permits are under way, and our guy has cleared trees for the house. I guess that's where we are now.
Hope summer is treating y'all right.
