Seriously? February was the last post???

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.