The Move
We've made the move and it is going well. No question about that. New job is great, trying to finish up old job stuff and get a publication.
The new house is absolutely wonderful. We are having a good time trying to get the yard together. It was just dirt when we moved in and it is now mostly weeds with some plants that we have scattered about. In the backyard we have many fruit trees: mexican lime, lemon (large), persimmon, orange, grapefruit, mandarin tangerine and pommegranite. I also bought another coffee tree about 2.5 feet tall and planted it in the ground. We await the return of our larger coffee tree and kaffir lime tree from their guardian who is less than eager to give them up now. The front yard we are going all native. So far we have the parkway planted with salvia, redbud bush, spicebush, low-growing manzanita, lilac verbana and one other I can't remember. The front yard has a
refugio manzanita and growing poppy seeds. We have placed a few annuals out there for color as well. We have lots of grasses for out there, a valley oak, salvia and buckwheat waiting to go in the ground. Lots to do!
The OBSD server survived the trip across the country and is plugging away. No updates to it, though I did manage to back-up the mail store before we left Baltimore. The
WebDAV server is working better on the new faster DSL that we have here. Just came in handy last night as I needed some large files from someone across the country. The only problem is the power consumption of the server. I would really like to get something new with less power consumption, but we can't afford that now.