Wow! Its been almost two months, but this time I have a good excuse. I moved 1200 miles away from Virginia to central Kansas.
The move was really hard. When my husband and I got here to Ft. Riley we immdediatly started looking for a place to live. Post housing for officers has a year long wait. It did not take us long to find out that there was hardly anything available. There are houses here to buy, but if you want to rent there is just not much. Apparently most people here rent because most assignments to Ft. Riley are only two years. So, we looked and look and kept coming up empty handed. We did finally find two places that we were trying to decided between. One was $100 dollars over (did I mention rent here is outragous?) the max we wanted to pay, and was in basically a retirement neighborhood. The other was $300 cheaper, but was really small and in a questionable neighborhood. We had decided to call my husband's mother for some advice and while we were talking to her we got another call. It was a property manager who mentioned a duplex that we had been really interested in. We already knew that the place had been rented and assumed he was just calling to tell us that. Then he said he had another house that had just gone up for rent and started telling us about it. I couldn't believe it. The house is WONDERFUL!!! It turns out the house belongs to the property manager. Him and his wife custom built it because they planned on retiring here. Then as so often happens plans changed. I still even as I sit here in this house can't believe it fell in our laps. It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a full finished basement, two car garage, a fenced in yard, and an awesome tub in the master bath. We dont' really have enough stuff to fill it up, but that is just fine with me. In fact when the movers delivered our household goods they said you guys sure dont' have much stuff. That made me really happy because they see A LOT of stuff!!
This is a long entry. I am not sure where I am going with this blog, but I am going to start keeping it up better. I hope to post some outfits, but it is not going to be all about fashion. Also I have been feeling very crafty since we got here. It's such a good feeling to want to make things again. I had gotten out of sewing and painting and taking pictures, but this house just relaxes me and I feel creative here.
