Our first week...

here has been interesting. For the first while we were living without any furniture. It's been fantastic to have our couch and chairs to sit on again. It's been since Thursday, but I am still amazed that Mat was able to maneuver our couch basically on his own. I tried to help, but I am a weakling and I think more in his way than helpful. He was somehow able to leverage and maneuver it around to get it up our steps and in through the doorway here.

Anyway, Mat has enjoyed his first week of work. He has all ready been out doing some monitoring of some fish in a river up here which required some canoeing in the evening and the next morning. So he enjoyed some wildlife watching and nice light on the river.

Brie and I are busy searching for another place to rent and taking Maddy for walks around the small town we live in. We are lucky that there is a school nearby so we got to walk on their property. That will change starting tomorrow when spring break is over and the kids are back in school. Maddy's been a trooper with having us take her everywhere, including the bathroom!

We've been on some hikes to some waterfalls and then some woodland hikes that end up out on the beach.  We are enjoying getting to know this area.  On our walks we are seeing some spring wildflowers blooming that all ready bloomed in western North Carolina, like coltsfoot, trilliums, and toothwort.  The landscape is completely different than anywhere we've lived before, it will be interesting to learn it's ecology.    (Side note:  I do have to say there are some similarities to Delta in it's smallness and that we are actually living in a dairy farm area.)