Holiday fun

Great time in the northland for Thanksgiving. Of course we had fabulous food (thank you, Anne and the cook team) and fabulous people to enjoy it. The weather has been all over the place! Today was in the high 50s! Doesn't feel too different from what we're used to.
Put up some outdoor lights this weekend, did a little more organizing. Lots of water in the marsh too, maybe the most we've seen yet.
It's 4:15 and getting dark out there, but coming home to the view for even a little while is most relaxing. It's a "time out" to reset the brain. The marsh is looking raggedy from all the water recently, and the leaves are off the trees. The start of our winter marsh.
LeeAnne got us thinking about naming our house, so we've been playing around with that. Will see where it goes.

And a good week it was

Drinking coffee and watching the outdoors: Canada geese and some kind of unidentified raptor. Annelle thinks Gyrfalcon.
Homemade cinnamon rolls from the local GF bakery were perfect. Sun is out and the day looks good.
This week at work was so much fun! I'm at the OR that's down the hall from Annelle in the old building. The cases are more familiar to me (general, spine) and I've felt like my rhythm is better. Unlike the new Fore River building there are no windows, so it's back to no contact with what's going on outside, but I really do like it there. A few more weeks there then I'll be floating back and forth between the two.
Today we're having a small housewarming party, then dinner with the delightful Brightwell/McNeely/Hutchison clan.
XOXOXO

New week

New things ahead this week. Tomorrow I move up to the State Street campus for the final part of orientation. New geography, new people. Also, different services: general surgery, spine, ENT, some ortho. Looking forward to it.
This morning the carpenter comes to replace the rotten door! This should mean we won't have cold air on our feet while eating. Might be a little chilly during the install as it's the entire dining room wall!

Above is one of our projects from the weekend. We have 2 of the most not-DL-AB styled light fixtures in the house, and the one in the dining room was the eyesore we kept having to look at. So we scoured the stores and the internet and found this one. Vastly improved sightlines.
Canada geese just now commuting to their feeding grounds. All is right with the world.

Election Day

Now that was a different experience. First off, it's a local election and the parking lot was full at 3:30. The ballots are all fill-in-the-circle on the paper ones. And the gym had at least 100 booths where a voter could go to fill in their ballot. There were raffles and fruit sales tables outside the gym. Oh, and you don't have to show your ID.

Thought I'd send a photo so you could see Simone and Jack in their favorite activity. They do go out, but not for long.

Bittersweet

We're Mainers now. Our house in Georgia sold yesterday. Yes, we are relieved to sell after only 2 months on the market. And we both felt the same sadness at the closing of that chapter. Now we can concentrate on making this house as loved as Pointer's Ridge.
The lumber company just delivered our new French doors to replace the ones we don't think will make it through the winter (rotten. We knew that would be the first big project.) The doors and casement windows that look out onto the marsh are original to the 1971 house, so the new ones will be much more energy efficient.
The early nor'easter has tamped down the reeds that separate the marsh from the yard and it really does look like we're a part of it! Very cool.