New Stuff !

Well it's been a while since I wrote my last blog, sorry about that.  Life has been really busy, and a little difficult, in as much as I've been trying to get everything organized and tidy in a house that is quite small and has no storage other than a small attic, and I have so much stuff…  It's been a little like trying to pour a gallon into a pint pot.
I'm still not as tidy as I would like to be, and I'm missing a guest bedroom, an office, and an art room, but I have the best kitchen I've ever had, love, love, love my new kitchen.  The 3rd bedroom sort of doubles as an office and a guest bed, all be it with a futon, or sofa bed rather than a real bed, which according to Danni is bloody uncomfortable and much like sleeping on the floor :(  and my dining room is mostly used as an art room.  Improvisation in motion here.

The back yard is really tiny, a small space squished in between us and the house next door, but I've still managed to plant 17 tomato plants, 5 pepper plants of various types, basil, tarragon, cilantro, parsley, squash, zuccinni, 2 eggplant's, spearmint and rosemary.

We have banana trees growing on our back deck and a couple of days ago we had a fabulous Regal Moth stop by, Nic and I were very busy with our cameras taking splendid photographs of the incredible creature.

Regal Moth, or Royal Walnut Moth

I'm learning my way around Atlanta slowly, but I have to say the drivers here are the worst I've encountered anywhere, they're so rude, and I've seen more accidents in the last month than I've seen in the last 5 years, it's certainly made me sit up and pay a bit more attention while I'm driving.

Travis and Sultan are happy (I think) in their new barn, it's a small family owned barn, nothing fancy, no indoor arena, but lovely people that give excellent care to the horses; along with various other animals, an enormous pig called Princess who freely wanders the property and sleeps outside of Travis and Sultans stalls, and there's a goat called Billy, and a hen called Elane.   I could write a children's book about this place.  There's no grass on the property but the best, beautiful hay, so my boys are happy munching on delicious green orchard/alfa,alfa hay.  

Having almost organized myself in the house, and settled the horses into the barn, I'm now planning on putting a photography show together for the Fall in Nicolette's studio.  I have so many amazing photographs from all my travels, so we'll see how that goes.  

More later...

Postponement...

This is stretching itself out to be the longest move, with numerous complications and interruptions.  I'm still in Columbus waiting for Travis to recover before we can trail him down to Atlanta.  The morning of our planned move he was limping around with apparently sore feet following a shoeing the previous day. He's looking better today, so unless we have another catastrophe overnight we should be able to leave tomorrow, but who knows, when dealing with horses nothing is ever certain.

I keep thinking "once I'm settled", of course it could be possible that I'll never be settled, this is quite simply the way my life is,  just one chain of events after another that will permanently keep me busy doing things other than what  I actually plan to do, always preparing and planning for something but never actually doing it…

With luck I'll get the horses safely to Atlanta tomorrow,  and then the next faze of my peculiar life will begin.
However, with regard to my many plans, I'm not holding my breath...

Almost Back To Normal

Life's been so totally crazy for me over the last couple of months, and I have to admit I'm quite exhausted.  I've really missed my writing while I've been busy packing, clearing out, house hunting, and moving, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to posting again regularly.  My blog will have some changes though as my life's about to do a total ass over tit about turn… From a wind blown yacht bitch sailing around the Caribbean, to a hippy, happy, artsy, Atlanta hopping Daisy on land…

Me posing outside the home I'm hoping to win, in Serenbe
 (thanks to Edi who has entered my name every day for 2 months)
fingers crossed, I think I have as much chance as the other 2 or 3 million entrants… LOL

Tomorrow Danni and I move the horses to their new home in Atlanta Georgia, which will be the final phase in the 13 stages of the "Morgan move".

I've rarely stopped to take a breath over the last few months, and moving into a new house that's much smaller than the house I moved out of, has been quite a challenge, but I've found that a positive attitude really helps.  My new house with Niki, is really cute, and I have quite possible the nicest kitchen I've ever had, including my kitchen at Morgans Run.

We're right in downtown Atlanta, and despite my reservations about living in a hugely built up area I love it, the neighborhood is nice, the neighbors are really friendly and helpful, and I'm only a 6 minute drive from IKEA, a store I've frequented regularly over the last 11 days.

Despite an emergency root canal performed right in the middle of the move, everything seems to be falling into place finally.

I'm excited about getting involved with Nic's studio, and I'm already planning my first photography show, which will be the next item on my agenda, I'll post photographs of the show (when it happens).

In the mean time, I'll be on the road tomorrow, transporting Travis and Sultan to their new home, hopefully the weather will be kind to me, with no horrific storms or interstate pile up's and long traffic delays.  One can always hope...

My fabulous new kitchen under a deluge of boxes,
this was not even half of them!

Atlanta, Georgia, I'm on my way :o)