Today was the day

Alice woke up and got busy shoveling my top soil out of the parking spot after spending all day yesterday cleaning the "arboretum". Everyone else have also been pitching in to get the house spic and span. From noon to dusk we had visitors to celebrate our new home and married life. Many aunts, uncles, friends and other relatives came by. Our mothers did a repeat of their united reading from our wedding ceremony, Tim and I made a second attempt at the whole cutting the cake business. Sister Krista found a way to get my veil to stay in my new short hair. Cousin Min Min excelled at running around the crowded room between chatting adults to deliver cake and was rewarded by licking all the pans. All-in-all a wonderful evening. From here on through the next week, things should quiet down significantly and get back towards the farming life before Little Miss Tilly Puppy arrives on Friday to be our super farm-dog. After opening gifts, we spend some time debating the best types of raised beds to build. It's hard to resist getting started before the fence is put in on the 27th, but it will be worth it to have the beds in the right place the first time and while I wait, I still have compost bins to finish building and a chicken house to clean, white-wash, and window.