Do you believe it? Two posts in the same year!!!

Anyway, we're in the middle of a maelstrom in our house. We've decided that 8 years in a 200+ year-old farmhouse is enough. It's beautiful, but it's too big for three people (2400 sq ft), it's expensive to heat (we keep it at 55 degrees all winter...no wonder I get nothing done!), and we'd like something square! ;) And though we love our little Vermont town, we'd like to live closer to our best friends, so we're looking in a couple of other beautiful little Vermont towns. We pay for living here though. It's April 2 and we just had snow yesterday. Sigh... But summer is glorious, and I'm learning to enjoy winter too!

So the house...we're renovating the upstairs bathroom, finally. It started as all old house projects do...I got sick of the wallpaper. I ripped it off the walls, but whoever put it up thought it would be a good idea to put the wallpaper behind the sink, the toilet and the molding around the floor, the window and the door. Once we had removed all of those, my husband thought it would be a good time to replace the old plumbing, then the laundry closet wall came down, and, well, the rest, as they say, is history. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, in that bathroom is now new. New paint, new floor (to protect the beautiful old 2 foot wide pine floors), new sink, tub and toilet and new washer and dryer. It's kind of nice, but now we've spent more than we should have. Gotta love renovations! We're learning as we go, so it's taking a while to get it all done, but we're hoping to install the tub today!

We're also moving our bedroom from the back of the house to the front, which is a challenge, just because we have a queen bed in the back room, a futon in the front room and a cast iron bathtub in the room in between! It's kind of like a slidey puzzle or a game of chess. We have to think about 4 moves ahead to make sure we don't get stuck in the middle! We're almost done with the move; only our bed and the futon are left to swap. We'll do that today, then I'll get the back room set up, since the realtor comes on Monday. Our hope is that she'll tell us we don't have to do much more than clean, purge and do a little painting and that she'll be able to sell our house quickly and for what we'd like to get for it! Haha!!! Hope is a good thing! :)

We're excited for spring to come, and I love that, in spite of the snow, our daffodils and day lilies are sprouting up with a vengence! The containers for our veggies are just about thawed, so I might move them to a sheltered spot and try to get some of the cold weather veggies in. This year's big garden project is to dig up the strawberry bed and sort the berry plants from the weeds. The grass got so firmly established last year that we could barely see the strawberry plants. We got very few berries, and no one looking to buy our house would be impressed by that! I also need to dig the grass out of the asparagus bed. But I WILL invest in mulch hay this year. I love gardening, but digging out huge clumps of grass is pretty low on my "this is so much fun" list.

Enjoy your Saturday and the coming spring! Maybe I'll get some pictures together so you can see the bathroom progression...