Home Sweet Home

This noon we checked out of Merrybrook and drove up and into Bracken Brae to stay for good.  We have spent a large part of the afternoon getting set up and forging a path through the moving cartons -- from the kitchen to the bedroom.  The bed is made up with fresh linens and new pillows, and a soft breeze blows through the big windows of that lovely master suite.  The telephone is on and working; and the kitchen ledge is cleared off in part -- enough room for Julie's famous dinner plan to take place (i.e., there's the phone, with the number of the pizza delivery; there's the space on the kitchen ledge, cleared enough to set the pizza down.)  

Right now, John is running errands -- to get the propane gas turned on so we can really cook -- and to pick up a card table, so we can sit down to eat -- and to buy some rubber "feet" for our bed so it won't send us sailing right out the French doors onto the deck, with those slick wood floors under its caster wheels!

We'll do a lot more unpacking tomorrow; and then we're going to take the Independence Day weekend off to rest.  Boulder Creek village shuts down for the 4th, the highway is closed to traffic, and we have an all-day community party, with the firemen putting on a pancake breakfast, a Big Parade down the highway, a BBQ in the local park, and lord knows what-all else!  On Saturday, Joe and KB and Josh are coming up for lunch with us at Scopazzi's and an afternoon checkin out our house.  Sunday, Marie and Robert are driving through, going home to Pasadena after a visit to M's friend Rose in Berkeley; they'll get their grand tour of our new home, and stay over at the local motel that night.

I bought a notebook/Guestbook, and everyone who comes to see the house must write in it their impressions and their suggestions for how to proceed with the settling in and decorating. We may not use any or all of the ideas -- but we may use some -- and it's always good to get a look at a place through others' eyes.  

We are also going to get out our camera and start recording the proceedings as we unpack and set up; that will give those of you who are not yet able to see the place a chance to put in your own suggestions and comments.

I have a dream, about this Redwood Cottage: and I will relate that to you all in the next blog installment.