The First Day of Spring!

Well, at least that's what the calendar said yesterday was.
We got a foot of snow- on the first day of our first spring living in Northern Maine.
I do have to say, it is beautiful to watch, see, and enjoy. I took photos, but since we're still unpacking, I can't find my USB cord or my card reader to transfer them off the camera and into the blogging world-- yet. I'll update as soon as I can find the tools I need :)
It's the second day of spring today. The wind is howling, the sun is nowhere to be found, and the plow man just came and cleared our driveway. He showed up in the driveway the day after we moved, to introduce himself and see if we wanted to hire him to plow. He charges by the storm, and is very reasonable, especially considering our driveway is pretty big. We really thought we wouldn't see much of him until next winter. Boy, were we wrong! And also thankful that he came by that second day, because there is a LOT of snow out there, and our only shovel broke when Shawn started shoveling yesterday. Now, we can get out of the driveway.. and go buy a new one (if we can find one!)
We're off to Boston tomorrow for a concert- can't wait for that ( but I am not looking forward to the 6 hour drive!)

BUMP

That's what the small flourescent orange sign at the side of the road says.
I had forgotten about these until we drove south a bit on Saturday to find a hardware store.
BUMP!
And that's what you find just beyond the sign. A bump. Usually a big frost heave in the road, sometimes it's a couple of them, causing bumps and dips.
Either way-- slow down or you may lose your tires, your exhaust, or anything else on the bottom half of your car. We hit a few of them pretty hard on Saturday. We did better today, but it's definitely bone-crunching when you hit if you're going too fast.

Well... We made it

We have arrived!!! Maine is just beautiful! We don't yet have high speed internet, so being online can be a bit painful right now-- a couple weeks until we can get high-speed and then we can start posting pictures of the feet of snow that are outside. It's currently snowing like crazy out but it's beautiful!

Waiting is hard!

Well, I'll be learning this blog stuff as I go... First thing to learn- how to save a post so I don't publish blank posts after spending an hour writing them!
To begin- I am Annette, married to Shawn. We're 40-somethings who married in October of 2006. We met each other just over 5 years ago, and are now buying our own home- a first for both of us. We have a total of 3 children between us. 11 year old G, and 27 year old K are Shawn's 2 kids, and I have 23 year old A. While none of the 3 live with us now, we are hoping that changes in the future :)
We are currently living in a limbo-like state. We should have moved by now, but our closing is delayed until March 7th. So, I finished my job on the 28th and we're all packed ( including dishes, pots, pans, most of our clothes and everything else) Shawn did 99% of the packing while I was working. Fortunately, he left one computer connected, and didn't turn in the cable tv boxes when he planned to, or we'd have no connections to the outside world!
Our move is taking us from a small-ish town south of Boston, to a very tiny town in Northern/Eastern Maine, about 375 miles from where we currently live. We've decided to leave the racing to the rats, and head north and live a simpler, more fulfilling life. Our long term plan is to be as self-sufficient as possible, growing and raising as much of our own food as we can, and lead a less complicated life. We actually sound a bit "crunchy" when we talk about it, but that works for me :)
So, that's a bit about us for now. More to come soon-- I'm hoping this will save correctly so I don't need to re-write it yet again :)