At 8002, all walls throughout the home have always been white! But now we’re here for a few months, Margaret wanted to change that. I’ve always had a plan to paint the fourth bedroom / computer room / now office at 8002 with colors inspired by the bedspread that was there when we moved in …

Before I left for England, we found some colors that both Margaret and I liked, and Margaret did all the painting while I was away – excellent results too! Some green, some yellow, and some orange …

(for comparison, some old pictures here, here, and here)

One nice side-effect of the recent rains was the great sunset following, with clouds instead of clear blue skies!

Down here at 8002, there are few birds and even less other animals – we’ve seen geckos/lizards before but they’re all missing now, and we’ve never seen mice, voles, etc. So there’s very little for Chloe to chase and catch, but she finally found something last night:

She rushed in with the worm in her mouth and dropped it on the rug, but then didn’t know what to do with it after that! After a few minutes I rescued it and took it back outside (we’d planted a few bushes yesterday which is no doubt how Chloe found the worm)

A quick pair of iPad weather snapshots, here in Florida and “home” in Massachusetts:

Here, mid 70s, sunny and dry!

Meanwhile, Massachusetts has loads of rain and mid 30s (but at least it’s not snow!):

Not fully adjusted back from England time last week, I’m getting up early enough to catch the sunrise!

Doesn’t happen very often …

This morning the wind is blowing hard from the North, and it’s “really cold”, only just about 40f and even with the sun shining, it’s not warming up very much …

Chloe is prepared to play a little this afternoon, but keeps close to being able to dive back under the bed if she feels worried …

Within a week, that “fish bird” will have no yellow fur on it!

After a 7 hour trip door to door, Margaret and I and Chloe(!) arrived safely at 8002 last night. Chloe meowed during the drive to the airport, once we were on the plane she was quiet – though no doubt quite scared! A half hour incoming plane delay meant that we didn’t reach 8002 till after 1am, and Chloe then spent quite a while alternately exploring the new house, or hiding under beds etc!

The house is still Christmas-decorated from when Joanne and Earle were here a couple weeks ago …

The days ahead, I’ll start setting up the fourth bedroom as a second office – some equipment here already!

The experiment begins!

We shopped at IKEA today, looking for a new picture for the bedroom. We found one, but it was a little larger than originally planned! Nevertheless it fitted in the MINI, and looks great on the wall:

It reminds us of our Animal Kingdom Wild Africa Trek earlier this year