Pictures from yesterday

Hello all. I'm a weary and somewhat sore woman, but the house is coming together. A day of unpacking and unpacking and unpacking. Sometimes boxes lead to, "Oh! I've missed this SO much!" and sometimes to "We brought THIS all the way around the world?!" But we ate at our own table, sitting on our own chairs, and it's lovely to be surrounded by things we love. We've found that the house seems to have gotten significantly smaller in these last 30 hours, and while putting away the boxes is a help, it doesn't fix the whole issue. Perhaps the only bad news is that almost nothing has broken so far--which means that we keep having to put the things away into closets that don't exist here. That's a challenge.

Still, to sit at our table and drink local New Zealand wine from the Swedish water glasses Dad and Jamie gave us for our wedding--it's hard to imagine that it gets much better than that.

Pictures: Michael sweeping up after our friends cleared out the house; the full moving truck; the filling house; the empty moving truck. Tomorrow: pics from a much improved house.