T Stands for Tuesday and A Toast

Wow we are into the first week of December already-can you believe it??  

  T Stands for Tuesday is where we gather together and share a drink related post with friends. Only requirement to join us is a photo of your beverage.

  We are now owners of our Lake House-whooo hoo!!  

   The seller wanted til the 6th of December to give her time to move-but she ended up giving us possession late Saturday. Her two kids both living in different states now,  drove back to their childhood home and got her all moved-and she is moving to a different state as well to be close to one of her kids. This must be hard as she lived her for 40 years.
   So Sunday morning we drove up to our new house. It takes about an hour or a bit more to get there. I brought along a bottle of bubbly to celebrate.
   We had picked up this bottle of sparkling wine two years ago in the Spring time, when our friends from Wisconsin came down. They wanted to tour a winery. 
     This is sitting on the edge of the kitchen counter near the front door. She had a full glass heavy duty outer door which is nice for bringing in the sunlight. I think I will like that.
    This wine was really nice.
  

  To the left you can see a pretty blue garden pot-There are two and these are heavy ceramic, I love them

  We mostly came by to measure some things, I needed to really look at the rooms better-mostly to decide on which of two for my craft room.  There is one bedroom that is gorgeous-full of windows on two sides facing the lake-I am letting Hubs have that one for his extra room. I know he will enjoy the lake views-he said it was my choice to choose.

    My craft room always has so much stuff to place-that I could use that one wall with no windows. This room also has more electric outlets in it too. 

   This house is lacking in electric-Hubs will be upgrading that but too much now to open walls to add more outlets.

    Her daughter is an artist-actually the seller showed me photos of her work-she is a fiber artist on a commercial scale-I was very impressed. Anyways she had painted these on one wall-and I love them

and for some reason I had not looked into the closet in this room before-and that sold me for my craft room
   This first photo is to the right inside the closet-and goes up to a crawl space for the attic--these are very deep boxed steps. Wow Perfect for all those bags of fiber to spin-I was smiling when I discovered this Can you imagine how much stuff I can fit in this space?? lol

and to the left inside the closet was this one lone rod-I don't need that-but it will be an easy fix to turn this wall into shelves-for fabrics and books-loving it and I can close the door. Things will stay clean and away from sun light.

and the rest of the house keys-at closing the seller gave Hubs one key so we could get into the house easily and I have never ever had a garage and with an opener-something new to learn

This is looking through one of the windows in our bedroom-looking over the lake and our boat dock-exciting!! This room is on the opposite side of the house-from the other two rooms.

We still need to figure out the water in the basement issue-it is not standing water, just a constant dampness-Hubs has several ideas about it. 

    I really need this space to convert into lots of shelving, a place for my chest freezers, and set up an area for my soap making, dyeing, and messy crafts. This is first on the list of things to do.

   I also looked around the house to decide where to set up my outdoor cooking area-having no land to speak of will be an adjustment for sure. 

    After leaving the lake house we drove the opposite direction to go back home, to see how far the little main area of this new town is-interesting I can see allot of summer partying, antique shops too, and found a tiny post office. Up the road about 12 miles is a town called Versailles which has the drivers license place, the county court house, and a small Wal mart store. We saw lots of little consignment and antique shops too. This is an Amish community as well so I am looking forward to visiting their bulk store and butcher shop, and market for fresh veggies.

   I think we will enjoy this new area to live in. 

You may have noticed that I changed up one of the weather widgets in my right hand column.  Sunrise Beach is a city nearby to the lake house.

My Outlander books arrived-I have finished Book 1 and am on Book 2 now. I really love this author

This past week has given us more cold weather so I dug out my French Press to brew my chicory decaf beverage.This gives me 2 large mugs full. I forgot how much I enjoy using this-and it takes out the slight bitterness as well

I sent out all of my Christmas cards the Friday after Thanksgiving, so I am thinking they made it to their destinations now.  I am curious how the wax stamp held up in the mail-thanks

Happy T Everyone!!