New Place!

The past few weeks have been pretty hectic for Ed and I because we moved houses!  We moved from our furnished rental in a resort area (15 miles outside of town) to a cute little geo-thermally heated home in town - just 1 1/2 miles from downtown!  As you can imagine, moving with a puppy is challenging...Alee was certainly confused about everything that was going on, but she understood once we got her crate and bed in the new house.

The new place is sitting overtop of a geothermal well (220 deg) so it stays pretty warm...also the heat is FREE and we won't have much snow accumulation in certain areas.   Our well (which we share with the neighbors/land lords) is one of the shallowest geothermal wells in the area at only 88 feet!  Here's the explanation of geothermal energy from the Oregon Institute of Technology:

Geothermal Energy is heat (thermal) derived from the earth (geo). It is the thermal energy contained in the rock and fluid (that fills the fractures and pores within the rock) in the earth's crust.

In most areas, this heat reaches the surface in a very diffuse state. However, due to a variety of geological processes, some areas, including substantial portions of many western states, are underlain by relatively shallow geothermal resources.

These resources can be classified as low temperature (less than 90°C or 194°F), moderate temperature (90°C - 150°C or 194 - 302°F), and high temperature (greater than 150°C or 302°F).   Direct use, as the name implies, involves using the heat in the water directly (without a heat pump or power plant) for such things as heating of buildings, industrial processes, greenhouses, aquaculture (growing of fish) and resorts. Direct use projects generally use resource temperatures between 38°C (100°F) to 149°C (300°F).

So far Alee seems to like the new place except for the wood laminate flooring which she slides across regularly.  She is LOVING the back yard for playing and chewing her bones and we are LOVING the backyard for the gravel!  (No grass to kill with puppy pee!) 

Ed and Alee in front of the new house

Honeysuckles!

Overlooking the City from our front porch

Nice gravel backyard!

So far Buster and Alee are NOT friends, but they are making progress.  Alee would love to play with Buster, but he just isn't having it.  This weekend, we hit a GREAT milestone where Buster actually came into the living room where Ed and I were sitting with Alee and he actually looked right at Alee without hissing or growling!  I even caught it on camera:

Now to start unpacking...