Today is the 1-year anniversary of closing on our little house – what a difference a year makes! It was a challenging first week a year ago, and then a prolonged process to get back here, but we are so happy with how far we’ve come.

We will post again soon regarding our house-painting project (still a work in progress) but you can see above that we have painted the window frames, door frames, and corner a bright sky blue.

Over the last week, Lukus built a stone and concrete planter adjacent to the retaining wall. We celebrated our house anniversary by planting a grape vine that we will eventually train on a trellis and shade the front ‘yard’ area. We are SOOOO looking forward to having fresh grapes in the future!