Hello, friends.  Welcome to our new “Hearth and Home” category.  This will be my baby.  I hope to start posting regularly here with all kinds of projects, decorating ideas, and updates about the feathering of our new nest.

Jesse and I bought our first home in the quaint and cozy Sherwood Forest neighborhood about a month and a  half ago, and have since been loving it.  Well, mostly.  There have been a few glitches:  the circa 1970 Roper stove died on us on day two, the garbage disposal has clogged a couple times, our bathtub had a small hole in it, and currently our plumbing involves several five-gallon buckets, but we’re getting though it.  Overall, we’re loving it.

We live on a quiet, hilly street in a 1940′s stucco cottage.  We have one very sociable neighbor, Calvin, who is seventy years old, almost completely deaf, and is probably building a robot.  He is a scrap metal enthusiast.  Jesse told Calvin I was a nurse assistant.  Big mistake.  About a week into our neighborly relationship, he asked me to change the bandage on his recently removed cist.  He told me about his bowels, then his brother’s bowels, then his cat’s.  His cat’s name is Leo.  Jesse and I have a theory that this is homage to Leo Tolstoy, like the concierge in one of our favorite books, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and that Calvin is a closet philosopher.

Our other neighbors are a surprising mix of piano tuners, Julliard-invited cellists, Vietnam veterans, photographers, and one crazy lady who we’ve been warned about but have yet to have the pleasure of meeting.

Here is our new rabbit hole, before we settled in:

So there you have it–our little hearth and home.  I’ll be posting shots of different areas of the house now that we’ve painted and decorated, as well as projects and ideas and general merriment in our new, beloved rabbit hole, where we will breed like rabbits, and make little rabbits, to whom we will read I Am A Little Rabbit.

Your Rabbit Wife,

Mary Ann