The day we cuddled snakes and moved coffee...

We took a little detour from moving in this morning to join our homeschool co-op on a field trip about desert reptiles.

Why?

Why?

WHY???

How do I get myself into these things? I hate snakes, terrified, actually. Yet, I drove 30 minutes so my kids could cuddle them. [Shudder]

Of course, they had the time of their life as they shoved their noses up against the glass of all the deadly poisonous snakes and asked to hold and pet all the non-venomous snakes.

For me, the highlight was the African tortoise dumped in the desert and found last week. He needs a home, and thankfully, the kids did not overhear that fact. But he was a cutie pie and super friendly.

See? Snakes take notes. You can be a reptile and cute. You must stop everything you currently do, bulk out, add a shell, and move slowly with an adorable face. It's not complicated. Give it a try sometime.

After that fantastic (terrifying) field trip, we returned home just as Bill was finishing hooking up the Raptor to city water and filling the tanks.

I jumped in to help him, and he had me call him on his cell to monitor the water levels inside the Raptor. Suddenly, a massive crash occurred, and I heard Bill groan and say, "Ouch," over the phone.

When I asked what happened, he said, "A mattress flew into the lawn chair, and then the lawn chair launched and hit me in the back."

What the heck?

Here in Southern Arizona, we have quite a few dust devils. You have no time to get away from them; frequently, they drop from the sky in the most random locations, making a mess out of everything. In my opinion, they've been getting more frequent and more robust in the last few years.

When we first moved here, you "ate dust" for a few seconds while you held your breath as it passed over you. Nowadays, oversized items are tossed from one side of the yard to the other, and today was a mattress-tossing day. I had left one on a table to air before we donated it.

This dust devil was so fierce today that it jumped our house and ripped two flags from our flagpole...again. We've lost more flags than I can count. Because we lost so many, we have American flags on auto-order from Amazon.

Once we were hooked up to city water, Bill helped us hang our oil shelves because that's obviously the next important thing after clothes and bedding. We decided to have a place for our oils in every room, with the kids' room and the kitchen being the predominant locations.

Our oil shelf in the kitchen/living room. This one has our most used oils and all of our emergency oils, like Helichrysum, Lavender, and Frankincense.

This oil shelf is hanging in the "garage" which is where the four girls sleep. The Raptor is a toyhauler and we have a 14 foot garage/bedroom. This oil shelf holds our most used oils, we had to seriously pair down our stash to get it to fit on those shelves.

After organizing our oils, we decided to move "a few more boxes" and call it a day. However, it made sense to move the beloved coffee and tea station. Woot! According to my last blog, this means we're all moved in.

The coffee and teapot fot perfecting on that shelf. The cabinets above hold all of the various teas we like to drink and the rest of the coffee bar.

We're just missing our bathroom items, kitchen appliances, food, and office. So, yeah, I'd say we're done moving. That's a wrap. 😂