Thanks for the housewarming wishes, Charmion, Sandra, Stilly!! It is wonderful to have a place of my own. I have been on wheels for 7 years.

Yesterday hauled half of the locally stored items to the new home, and picked up a new-to-me bookcase. It was about 102 for the high, so while the original load-in to cargo trailer went well, the load out into the house was hot and slow. Trying to stick most of the boxes in their destined rooms as I go. Got exhausted, will hopefully move the remaining 40% over this weekend.

No furniture yet, so lunched in my lawn chair at the kitchen counter and had a lie-down on my sleeping-bag pad. Long enough to be sure that floor-sleeping will not be an option with achy joints from moving boxes.

Discovered the place stayed eerily cool for days after the A/C was last on, stucco construction is a great fit for this climate. 4 modern mini-split air handlers let me cool it further.

Well, except for the mud/storage/rock room, where there is a new large water heater on display, which heats up that room, the only room with no mini-split. Desperately needs an insulating blanket to keep the heat in the tank (it's already set as low as it can go). So add that to the list of to-gets.

Will work hard to get a bed in this week, shop for a sleeper sofa for maybe later, then get ready for a run east for the rest of my stuff in storage.

The RVing people I know tend to come through this area in winter, and the mineral people congregate in Socorro in November, so I'll be hosting visitors for sure. Hence shopping for a sleeper, and the yard has plenty of room for RVs to park. Have not upgraded the electric line for plugins, but I'll look into that. And I better start planning a housewarming for the locals for early fall.