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July 23, 2008
We're Here
Well, we're here. The trip was nice, in that it was an easy drive, and no cars died. The move was fairly awful - the truck loaders in Michigan never bothered to show up, and the unloaders in Virginia might as well not have showed up, making the move much more of a do-it-yourself thing than it was meant to be. Verizon took a full 17 days to get our phone and internet connection correct (though they did make sure to bill me promptly).
But we're here. The house is nice. The neighborhood is nice; it's one of those older neighborhoods, where neighbors greet you and kids actually play with each other up and down the street.
I'm guessing that you can grow anything in Virginia. I've got a little garden patch out back, in which tomatoes are growing of their own accord. Impatiens keep popping up throughout the lawn. And there's a huge patch of uncontained spearmint (tended by bees as big as cows). This makes me happy. Anyone who plops mint into their yard is not going to be overly concerned about my freeform gardening methods.
Posted by lynx at July 23, 2008 8:59 AM
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So where in the area did you settle?
Posted by: COD at July 23, 2008 11:47 AM
Fairfax Co., near Chantilly. Not far from Dulles.
Posted by: Stephanie at July 23, 2008 10:29 PM
That's my kind of yard. And the neighborhood sounds terrific. Take some pics of those (probably carpenter?) bees!
Posted by: premenopaws at July 24, 2008 10:14 PM
Welcome to Northern Virginia! We can't afford to live here, either.
Posted by: Missy at July 29, 2008 11:34 PM
Don't forget to visit Frying Pan Park. And also Sulley Plantation..it's on Rt 28 near the Dulles exit. Oh, the list could go on and on...
Posted by: Anne at August 1, 2008 7:44 AM
We've been able to, if not actually *grow*, at least sustain a surprising number of things down this way. HUGE difference from the Southwest, where "full sun" doesn't really mean full sun b/c everything bursts into brown, crunchy death after a few hours of July sun. I think you'll have fun with all the possibilities.
Dy
Posted by: Dy at August 13, 2008 1:03 AM