Home, Sweet Home

Bed never felt so good. What is it about coming home and sleeping in your own bed that feels so darn good? It's still the best magic there is.

I'm looking forward to another week off at home. I'm looking forward to settling in, to cozy fall endeavors like soup making and fall planting. I've become enamoured with ornamental cabbages arranged in bouquets of three. I've got a big terra cotta pot that will be perfect for that kind of thing. I saw a photo online and knew right away that I wanted to replicate it. Or adapt it for my spot. I've been haunting a local garden center over the last month, planted two rose bushes, three echinacea plants, and some hellebore and a mum that a friend gave me. Laid down some mulch and some pavers that help make navigating my tiny garden simpler. Not sure where to put my sundial. I may wait til the spring to put it back in the garden after I see how everything grows in. I've got my eye on planting some tulip bulbs in the open spaces.

There are also tasks to do. The rest of my moving boxes need to be unpacked. Most of the rooms in my new place are pretty well set with only some unpacking, refining, and hanging art needed. My library and writing room is pretty unformed at this point. If I can get the rest of the place well settled in the next week, then I hope to do the last room before Christmas. 

I look forward to being settled.

I haven't lived a very settled life. With my career choices, I seem to have moved more often than most. I haven't been exactly nomadic, but sometimes it feels that way. The thought of being settled feels a bit unsettling. Something I need to get used to. But I think I am going to like it.

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Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions of the small things in life.