Sarah's Books - Used & Rare

It's been warmer this week and we had rain, so the snow has melted somewhat, but we've got yet another storm on tap for tomorrow into Sunday. Lots of snow and ice predicted. Uggghh. Here's our house and driveway after one of last month's big ones, to give an idea of what Maine's like in the winter, for those who've never had the pleasure:

That big snow pile by the tree trunk is taller than I am. At least our driveway isn't very long, so we can scoop it out pretty quickly. The road we live on used to be a main road, but a few decades ago it was bypassed, and now the main road is a half a mile away. So the house is kinda close to the road, but it doesn't matter because no one ever drives on the road. There are four big old maples in the front yard, and a winter view of the water off down the hill. The house used to have an ell and a barn, but those are long gone - someday we'd like to rebuild the ell, out into the backyard. For now it still seems like we have a crazy amount of space, after two decades of apartment living and somehow making things fit into spaces plain old too small for them.

The book room (I can't write something and not mention books - it's terrible) is upstairs above that little side porch/kitchen door - the book room window faces north, and it's the only window in that room, so it's a good place for a lot of books. Extra insulation, not much light to fade dust jacket spines, lots of wall space, quiet. I'm so thankful we found this house, I still can't believe it. The woman who lived here before us spent a few years fixing it up, so all we had to do was get storm windows on the windows that didn't have them, and settle in. It's like a dream.

I'm helping dissipate cabin fever by continuing to plan out the garden. Just ordered seeds - vegetables and some flowers and herbs. We want food we can immediately eat (greens, corn, all kinds of fresh veg), and also food we can store well into next winter (potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, pumpkins, squash). It's getting bad, I'm browsing in gardening books today instead of WORKING. Dreaming of greenery. With more white on the way.