home sweet home

when we first got here, we were squatters:

and then our stuff came:

so now it's just a matter of sorting stuff out. i like unpacking cuz it feels like lots of very practical birthday presents: oh look, soap! and here are some hangers! i have over 60 hangers, the discovery of which shocked me at first, but then i decided it's because i don't have drawers so i hang lots of stuff. all of my blankets, scarves, + hats seem obscene in this heat; i can actually pack away the cold weather stuff! what a concept. 


it's ruggedly beautiful here. i'd need a wide-angle lens on my camera to capture just how big the sky feels, but here are a couple shots from my car. i'm getting better at taking pics while driving; it's confusing for my brain to take in info from both a viewfinder + my eyes. the first pic faces west, bottom one faces east: