{"id":21299,"date":"2021-05-17T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T18:48:47","slug":"settling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/settling-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve moved into our new house! After a stressful and incredibly exhausting couple of weeks getting everything done, we&#8217;re all starting to settle in, and it&#8217;s wonderful to see design decisions we made months (and years!) ago for our home finally come to life.<\/p>\n<p>Our new house is truly lovely, and I&#8217;ve been working hard getting it set up in a way that&#8217;ll make sense for the way we live, so we can hopefully stay more organised and really enjoy living here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been the odd unexpected flaw in my endless plans, such as discovering that almost all my pots and pans didn&#8217;t work with my new induction stove (oops&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_pans.jpg\" alt=\"all these saucepans and frying pans don't work with my induction stove\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to give away <strong>all<\/strong> the pans in this photo and buy new ones, but I&#8217;m looking on the bright side &#8211; this is an opportunity to re-buy <strong>just<\/strong> the pans I need for the way I cook, instead of having a cluttered cupboard full of pans that are rarely used.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a challenge to play food tetris every day (trying to fit things into <a href=\"\/blog\/im-moving-house\/\">the mini fridges<\/a>!) and figuring out which groceries I have fridge\/freezer space to buy, but it&#8217;s all part of the new house fun, and at least this is only temporary. <\/p>\n<p>My PlanetJune work is still on the back burner, for the time being. Although I&#8217;ve set up most of my office and studio, there&#8217;s a layer of random clutter everywhere that&#8217;s waiting to find a new home, and pretty much all my creative energy is going into sewing curtains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_curtains.jpg\" alt=\"sheer curtain hanging in the kitchen window\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and organising my pantry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_pantry.jpg\" alt=\"organised pantry\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and baking bread&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_bread.jpg\" alt=\"yummy raisin bread\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and walking for an hour or two every day with Maggie (usually with her best friend Echo)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_maggie.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie (right) with Echo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and enjoying the springtime, like this very Canadian sight of a goose family stopping the traffic while they cross the road \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_geese.jpg\" alt=\"Canada goose family crossing the road\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have ponds and a forest close to our home, so I&#8217;m enjoying watching the birds and turtles (and this loopy garter snake I managed to catch with Dave&#8217;s phone camera, below).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/newhouse_snake.jpg\" alt=\"coiled garter snake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to learn a little about our native flora too, and I&#8217;ve even picked up my long-neglected camera once or twice &#8211; there&#8217;s wildlife everywhere at this time of year, so lots of opportunity for nature photos. (Hmmm, maybe I should resume my occasional nature blog posts?)<\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;homey&#8217; phase I&#8217;m in won&#8217;t last forever, and once all the curtains are sewn and the house is mostly organised, I should be ready to jump back into some of the pattern ideas I have for PlanetJune.<\/p>\n<p>But, for now, please bear with me as I allow myself to enjoy this time. It feels amazing to have found a real home and to be putting down roots. I finally feel like I&#8217;m part of a community, and knowing I have no plans to <strong>ever<\/strong> leave here makes it all seem so <em>real<\/em>, unlike anywhere else I&#8217;ve ever lived before. <\/p>\n<p>This is where I belong. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve moved into our new house! After a stressful and incredibly exhausting couple of weeks getting everything done, we&#8217;re all starting to settle in, and it&#8217;s wonderful to see design decisions we made months (and years!) ago for our home finally come to life. Our new house is truly lovely, and I&#8217;ve been working hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}