Change is good, blah blah blah. I get that. I do. I just hate to say goodbye to some things.
This was the view from our front yard for over two and a half years:
Sometimes, this was our view: (you may have seen this somewhere before):
The first year we saw an awful lot of this:
That part wasn’t so fun. Swans are on the mean side, and they make copious amounts of poo.
Although we were cramped into a 640 square foot cottage, we loved it. Mr. Cygknit joked to the landlords that if they’d just build a second story we would stay. Once Em got mobile there was no choice but to move, though. A pond in your front yard and a dam/waterfall by the parking spaces + an almost-toddler is a bad mix. We moved last weekend, into a converted barn on a good deal of well-kept land. There’s no pond in the front yard, though there’s a good bit of wildlife.
It just isn’t the same without the swans.
Would you like me to fly up and start digging you a pond? Not sure how we are going to get the swans to move, though…
Congrats on the new place; can’t wait to see it/you/Em/Mr. C! Love you all.
Well I can’t wait to see pics of your view at the new place. And swans are scary…I don’t know that I could handle them trying to come in the door!!
Cute pants in the lower post…I think the black bum gives them character!!
Somehow your moving began to permeate my early April tax-time fog, I’m sorry I didn’t congratulate you earlier than this! Can’t wait to see the new place! :o))
an hour or two from us, we have a town where the swans winter. the whole area is white with swans. my plan is to knit the swan lake shawl-with 2 wings and where it on our next winter trip there.
What a pretty place to have lived – I wonder what wildlife you’ll find in your new home? (other than the wildlife of a toddler!)