On the move again

Where have we been for the last 4 weeks?
In purgatory, in limbo, in cognito?

Nathan and I spent our Valentine's Day weekend celebrating with a romantic getaway in a turn of the century stone cottage overlooking the ocean. It's our new house...

Unfortunately, valentine's day (valentines' ?!?!? see previous) was spent preparing for the move.
After a day of watching Nathan swim for his triathlon (okay it wasn't a full day, but a chunk of it), we packed our first boxes for the move that night. With folks coming at 11:00 am the next morning, we decided we would just move the furniture into the moving van and pack the rest into our cars after moving the furniture.

The next day we were up early to pick up the truck, pack a little more, and deliver Jake to the spa for a little holiday. Our packing was cut a little short by the fact that we had to return the first truck for leaking diesel all over. So at 11:00 am our moving crew showed up--Jeff, Emily & Justin. We had all the furniture loaded in about 1.5 hours (even with a beer break). We thought we might have a chance to beat our previous 4 hour record. When we turned up at the new house, unfortunately the owners (Clyde and Colleen) were still moving the last of the items out.

We took a break for lunch and started unloading again at about 3 pm. We moved everything in just over an hour. We had to take a break for a stressed out strategy session when we discovered the room we had planned on for a bedroom need to be a music room because the piano in it couldn't fit out the door (except for on its side). After a few minutes, we rearranged the plan and finished the unloading. Although the move went fairly fast (Jeff, Emily and Justin may not think so), we were exhausted so opted not to move the small boxes of things back to the house that night. Our old house was ours for another week, so we were able to procrastinate the rest of the moving and cleaning for a few more days.

This caused a minor problem the next morning, when I discovered that I packed no shoes for work and had to drive over to the old place to finish dressing. Over the next weekend, we moved shoes, food, tools to the new place and did a marathon day of cleaning.

Our new home is just 1 km from our old place. We are renting from some friends of ours, at a really good rental rate. The catch is that the house is "unusual" and comes with a pair of high-maintenance felines. As you know Jake doesn't play well with others, so he spent a few weeks at the spa while we tried to settle the inherited felines down. He's just moved back in...so we know have divided the house in half: Jake's half and the other cats half.

The good news is that this house is perfect for that. It is 2 stone cottages from 1899 and 1900, which have been blended into 1 house. It has 2 front doors, and the front of the houses are 2 seperate lounges, and bedrooms connected by a long hallway. At the rear of the house there is 1 shared common kitchen and dining room, with 2 entries, and 2 bathrooms. It also has 2 seperate gardens at the rear of the house. It has 2 gas bills, 2 electric bills, 2 days to take the garbage out. At least we only have 1 phone number (the same number as last time--email if you need it).
I thought you'd like to see some photos of the house, and our new housemates.