First Day Home

Gorgeous first day to be really home, with all my belongings in our first home of our own, for the first time. Mid March, but mostly sunny, up to mid 70s (!), with frequent breeze. Left the house doors open, and Ekati was ecstatic, running in and out of the house, scrambling up and down tree trunks.

So happy to discover little streamlet does indeed run in our gully this time of year. Only about a foot wide, maybe seven inches deep, but brisk!

Flattened grasses surrounding suggest five feet wide at times. Streamlet mostly above ground, but lacing above and below. Percolating prettily from bare rock near culvert.

And, at the top of the property, where streamlet is last visible above ground - a secret pool! Heart-shaped! About sixteen feet right now, at its widest.

Second streamlet also running strong, about two feet wide by one foot deep. This one seems to be year-round and run mostly on our neighbor's property, but crossing into our bit of bottom land where a pond basin has been bermed. Looks like, if we dammed the outflow, the pond could fill nicely, to forty or fifty feet across, maybe four feet deep.

Emptied nursery of leftover tools and materials. Cleaned thoroughly. Cleared fallen branches, from yard, to east fence line. Cleaned tub and shower of work boot prints, iron, and sawdust.

Stayed up late combing through hair for hours. First time in weeks for the left side, first time since the first of the year for the right side!