Housekeeping & Blog Info

Just a little tiny housekeeping stuff of two kinds around here. First a little business. Then a look back through time. :) It's come to my attention that some folks get the auto email alerting you to a new blog post, and then try to comment by replying to that email. The only thing that does, thanks to some kind of software magic I figured out at one point by watching a tutorial and have now forgotten, is to automatically send you an alert so you know when there is a new blog post.... and no one sees replies to that. So please comment so right under the post! I love hearing what you folks are doing, what the weather's like in your area, and answering questions. Though I know sometimes it takes me a bit to have time to sit down and write replies to everyone.

Anyway, on to fun stuff. The photo above was about the second day after I moved into Fy Nyth. I know many of you never saw it back then so I thought a look through the changes as I gradually rearranged things to best fit my needs would be fun and possibly provide thoughts or ideas for how to best fit your own needs. As you can see, I was just trying to get everything in the door. Below is actually what it looked like just a few hours before
that. When I'd just moved in a couple boxes, rugs, and the long white roll is the lovely mattress I still sleep on every night. (Find it here - https://amzn.to/3dEItZ6 if you are looking for a great loft bed option that I've been happy with for 6 years now!) Just before it was removed from it's crazy vacuum packed wrapper that kept it really really small. Conveniently, this made it simple to get it up into the loft! 

And above was what it looked like after a second load of stuff was moved in. Everything needed moved in a single day as my temporary home in a motel for two months, only overlapped with my house's arrival by a single day. So there was a few trips of just shuttling everything over and basically stacking it inside the door. 

After a few days, I got everything settled in, put away in cupboards and on shelves, a friend helped me build a little storage couch, and it looked much like above for a few months. 

Quickly I realized that I never actually sat in that cushy little brown chair. Almost the only piece of furniture that moved with me from the random collection of lovely yard sale, thrift store, and dumpster diving finds that had comfortably furnished a much larger apartment I used to share with a room mate for years. Most if it was really nice stuff too! Like a leather couch, gorgeous wooden dinning table, and more. But all far to large to fit in the tiny house, so it had already all moved on to new homes in other houses. Anyway, back to the chair, I'm just too fidgety. When I am reading, working on photos, or something similar, I sit up, then lay down, then sit cross legged on the floor, then squat, etc. You get the idea. I'm no good at sitting still in one spot. The chair, while very comfy, is really only comfortable if you are sitting still in it like a normal person. And not being very normal, it made sense for me to move it too into a new home in a friend's living room where it is sat in and loved every day. 

And then this arrangement lasted for about another year. 

The only real change from that, was adding the wood stove in my second winter. It now lives in that same corner that first housed the cushy chair and keeps us so cozy through the long winters! And this arrangement is now pretty much unchanged into my 6th year of life here. So apparently it fits my space, needs and lifestyle quite well. 

Wood stove with a baby Burley!

Every now and then, mostly when harvesting everything out of the garden in the fall while also canning a couple hundred quarts of tomatoes, peaches, applesauce, and a wide assortment of pickled veggies, the whole area gets swamped with items. Then it temporarily looks like above. :) 

But as soon as that's wrapped up, all the food is in the pantry, and everything returns to it's normal tidier state.

 Meanwhile, the kitchen, bathroom, and sleeping loft have all been virtually unchanged from day one. Maybe I just spend so much more time sleeping and cooking compared to any other single thing in my life, that I had a better idea of exactly what I wanted in those areas. 

What changes have you made in a home you have lived in to better fit with your needs in the past?