Moving Out!

Tomorrow is moving out day. Everything is almost all packed and some of it has already been taken away. The house feels odd, with no books, no pictures and no ornaments; it is a house, and not a home.

That said we were looking around today and remembering all the things we have changed in it. Major stuff like the new kitchen and bathroom and building on the sunroom. Reroofing the byre. Painting the outside walls and getting a nice front door. And the almost invisible stuff like new windows, and upgraded insulation and new lighting. Smaller things like removing and replacing internal doors and handles, new carpets and curtains and windowsills and shelving and redecoration. Twenty years of our life have been spent in this house, and we've put care and effort into turning it from a rather ghastly unloved house into a lovely much loved home. 

Of course I'm excited about the new house and the new life we will lead down in the Central Belt.  But today was a day for remembering because even though I don't regret that we're going, I should remember the good things that Orkney and the house have given us over the last two decades. 

Today was for looking back. Tomorrow will be too busy for anything. The day after is for looking forward.