When I arrived in Maine mid September I moved into a cosy 2-bedroom half house on 2 levels (they call it condo here). It has a wooden terrace where I can check the outside temperature in the mornings and the stars in the night – you have seen this terrace many times in my pictures, see “Thanksgiving (part 2)” in particular – . It is convenient, furnished with basic things and close to work…. but I can stay a maximum of 6 months – and I wouldn’t stay here anyway, it’s great only for a start.
Finding a year round house to rent is hard here. Most of the people have houses that they rent per week because the summer season is extremely productive! – That reminds me little Ile-de-Ré (see the post “Histoire d’Iles”), where even the inhabitants couldn’t afford anymore to live on the Island, back in 1993…. Anyways, I am patient, I am ok to drive a bit to work and to school, ok to be a bit isolated, ok to have an unfurnished house, I am also with a stable situation, working for a recognized company, and have a nice smile that inspires confidence (hopefully! – which I may also use to decrease the rental fees…). In short, I was hopeful.
And I was right! Today I signed my contract!
I will move in on the 1rst January, so today I begun to re-make the moving boxes…. This is an unfurnished house and I am decided to scroll the local “barter and swap” community to buy second hand furniture as much as possible. Minimalism maybe as well…. The house has a gorgeous view, so I don’t think I will need much stuffs: a comfortable cushion to contemplate and meditate, a small table to put my glass of wine, and it has also 2 rooms with wooden floor, ideal dance floor… that’s class!
Few days ago I came across a post of somebody selling freshly cut nice red-pine beams and boards cut on the island (he told me the exact road!); so I got 4 big ones today. The red pines on the island have a nasty disease impossible to treat. It is actually a very sad story: these trees will eventually all get cut as they are infested by the red pine scale or Matsucoccus matsumarae (Kuwana). I plan to make some nice shelves with them. Just need a bunch of bricks, and I will be transported in my student years… and make the tree live longer! Om!
View from the balcony in the new house
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