Our New Home

It always feels impossible until it’s done.

I think of these words often, whenever I’m staring down a task or life change that feels impossible or improbable. And maybe I’m a more negative person than I’d like to admit, or maybe it’s my anxiety at work, but I have those feelings of impossibility or improbability quite frequently.

For the last several months, our move to Montana was looming and I still felt like it was an impossibility. Like we would never actually move to Montana. We would never actually sit in our house, wake up on our property, call this place home.

We have put so much time, effort, energy, and money into making this work and as I sit in our new kitchen typing this (I’m waiting for a desk to arrive so I can actually set up an office space), I’m still in awe that we are here.

We’re still a little bit in limbo, we need to make one more trip back to Washington to tie up loose ends at the house we’ve been renting for the last 4+ years. We don’t know what we’re going to do for work here in Montana yet (ask me how my anxiety is handling that!). The trainer we sent Trisha and Steele to had an unfortunate accident so we will be bringing them home earlier than expected.

We still have big projects we would like to accomplish sooner rather than later, too. We would like to build Steele a corral, we want to fence the yard for the dogs, we want to learn how to exist in a different time zone.

We’ve been here fairly steadily for about a week now. I get up every morning and change irrigation pipe – handline – and much to my surprise, I really enjoy it. The house is coming together and I think we’re getting more comfortable here, it’s starting to feel like home.

The dogs are finally living the good life and it’s so nice to see! They’ve probably had it the worst in the desert, what with the puncture vine and foxtails and extreme heat and no shade or grass or water.

I can’t seem to stay inside for very long or leave my camera sitting on the table when I go outside. After so many years in the brown desert, everything feels like a photo opportunity right now!