living the country life...

There is so much great about living in Bloomington.
Tonight we were able to attend a picnic at North's childcare center, which was a really lovely time, and THEN still had time to do other stuff in the evening since we didn't have an hour and a half to drive home.
Tonight we decided to spend the later bit of the evening taking a walk. Walks have proven to be one of our favorite things to do at our rental house. Our road is pretty remote--tons of trees and always some interesting little bit of nature to greet us. Also, the one and only neighbor we always see is a big brown horse that I think Ender is attempting to befriend. They've taken to running back and forth and back and forth next to one another along the fence of the horse's pasture which is pretty cute. Ender and the neighborhood dogs in Terre Haute would do this with one another. I'm not sure that she understands this isn't just another pup.
The horse is friendly and always walks up to greet us at his fence.
Meeting our neighbor, the horse.
North definately does NOT understand this is not another dog. Every day I say "horse" about a thousand times while we visit, and every day North just says "dag" "dag" "dag" while pointing at it.

And our other, less friendly neighbors that we see each day (they rarely wander up to greet us), the cows. North of course, is also insistent that these too are "dags".

And I realized that we hadn't posted pictures of the place yet--this is it--as we get home from our walk tonight.

On a walk earlier in the week, when we got to the bottom of our hill, we realized the street had flooded due to recent storms. This was a great joy to our dog.



And of course, now that we are living in the country, we felt the need to plant a tiny little garden. We bought some organic tomato, pepper, squash, and herbs from our wonderful local farmers market (and some hop starts which Alan bought from the home-brew store) and planted a small garden area.

So far so good on keeping all the plants alive. Despite Ender's efforts.


Other recent adventures have included a trip to Terre Haute to attend a show being hosted by a friend. North, who is used to music time at his childcare center. was confused that the audience was not also given instruments to play during performances but quickly got into the spirit of things.



Also, we've had a brief visit from Grandma, Grandpa, Nanny, and Papa (I forgot to snap any pictures).

Finally, we've spent lots of time in our favorite "room" of the new place, our screened in porch. I realized that we didn't have any pictures of it and so snapped a few tonight--in the dark it's impossible to see the view from it but this picture shows the great chandelier (and twinkle lights) that we have come to love. Also some of the flowers I was able to snip from our backyard today.