From City life to the country

Mid July we moved from central California to Santa Fe Texas.

Boy what a difference, we hardly had a yard, the neighborhood was loud and busy 24 hours a day.
The new home is on more than an acre of land and you can only see one neighbor. The only noise you hear is from cows and the local wild life.

Now mowing all that yard is a challenge. For the first three months all we had was a Honda walk behind mower, it took over five hours to mow the yard. In July and August with the high temperatures and humidity that was quite a work out.

We finally managed to purchase a riding mower and that makes life a lot easier.

The mornings are the best, thats when all the wild life comes out. There is a hawk family living in the trees that we get to watch hunt on a daily bases. we have seen deer, coyote, armadillo, snakes of many breeds, and all kinds of birds.

We have now had six baby snakes get into the house. It's a new house and well built so we cant figure out how they are getting in. The cat loves to play with them so we have to be quick to get them before she does.

I am also a Honda Technician and I tell you, the differences between the Honda dealers in California and Texas was more extreme than I could have imagined, I won't go into details now but will write a post just on that in the near future.

I will try to go into more details of our move as well as a host of other subjects soon.