Alba Ranch has moved to Michigan.  This has been a very long and tiring journey over the last 4 months.  We are in Michigan and unpacking.  We will most likely be unpacking for the next 6 months or more!!!

I, Melisa, am just back online tonight for the first time and the connection is slower than my usual as I am tethered to my cell phone.  Soon I will have my proper internet installed but first I was hoping for my hot water heater and maybe my washing machine.  I have been boiling water in the kettle for hot water and going to the local laundry mat.  However that will not be happening again as someone stole my laundry from the dryer tonight.  I now have lost my blankets!!  I think all the other blankets are in the semi that we plan on unpacking in July.  sigh…. so you have to bear with me as I try to get all these things done and not forget my name or my new address in the mean time.

We have springs, a stream and pond.  20 Acres of woods…sugar maples, beech, birch and bramble berry everywhere.  Grass for the critters, studio for both of us artists, garages, barns, and a wee little house that I just love.  Now I have to figure out how to condense enough stuff for a small country into a 1250 sq foot house.  But it is MILES bigger than our 12×18 cabin.  Wahoo! more to come later.