our new hood
i was going to wait until i felt we'd fully moved in to post pics of our new chez nous, but i'm starting to sense that might never happen... so may as well post now.
it took us two full weeks to find this place, not including the countless hours spent online looking at super-wide-angle shots of what we later discovered to be hovels... i cried more than once over the rental market here (though during the first couple of weeks, it was hard to identify exactly what was making me cry at any given moment), and had resigned myself to paying $1700/month for something like this, when we found this little guest cottage. i would say it is easily my favorite bit of canberra, aside from my office, which is also pretty nice. good thing too, since i spend 85% of my time between home and campus. i've been told we live in the "hippy" area of town, which suits me fine but which doesn't really seem to mean anything in particular (honestly, i don't see any difference between this neighborhood and every single other neighborhood in town. seriously, you will not truly know what generic means until you spend some time here. wow.)
spring has finally sprung! there are flowers everywhere!!
i hung dad's old shot of the horses and then totally pooped out. everything else is just propped up against the wall.
everything is really WHITE, which makes the whole place feel really sterile. but i'll take institutional over cave-like any day.
this patio is still very much a work in progress. we need to move our camp chairs and buy a bigger table. i go to the recycling warehouse weekly in the hopes of scoring something, but nothing yet...
bob has certainly made himself right at home...
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