Quick hello

Last night was our first real night at the house, with our own bed and our own furniture and everything!  Although it was a little weird since it was a late night for Guy since he drove back into town to wrap up some things at the old house and pick up Dusty (one of [...]

Moving days

While I’ve been taking small loads of items up to the house all week, yesterday was the first day we moved major items.  We intended to take the bed along with our appliances but because we had to wait for the rain to pass through (which ended up taking most of the day) we could [...]

Plumbing update ….

Well, the plumbers were at the house today.  They had a list of things that needed to be done, and they did them ….

 
 
 

 
 

 

 
 
In keeping with my promise to keep my whining to a minimum on this blog, I’m not going to say much more about the plumbing.  If you want the real story, it [...]

Final plumbing

Yep, the plumbers called yesterday to say they’d be there this morning to wrap things up.  They called me this morning to say they were there and were missing a part, a part which I told them they were missing and needed to supply.  Obviously they came to the house unprepared which I assume means [...]

Closer to done

The last two coats of varnish went on the floor on Saturday without too much trouble.  That was until Guy discovered that the masking tape I used was soaking up the varnish and adhering to the woodwork.  That’s what I get for cheaping out and not buying the good “blue” tape.  But that’s $7 per [...]

Varnish

The cork floors look amazingly different with a coat of varnish.

Two coats down, two to go.

My two cent’s worth …

I’ve been really busy lately, so I’ve left most of the blogging to Sue, but I have some time today and I wanted to throw my two cent’s worth in …
As Sue has mentioned, we were shocked to arrive at the house yesterday and find that they had been there and cleaned the place from top [...]

Shock

There have only been a few times during this entire project that we’ve shown up at the house and been shocked by something that was done. I can probably count them on one hand.  And usually we were shocked by the stupidity or lack of attention or some other negative action that was done at [...]

Official. Sort of.

Well, I guess we’ve somewhat officially decided on a move date, assuming nothing major comes up.  I’ve put in my vacation request at work for the week of July 4th.  Basically there’s really not much holding us back from moving at this point and if we don’t just set a date we could flounder for [...]

Inching ever closer

They came late last week (not sure what day exactly, but before Saturday) and installed our air conditioner!! We turned it way down to 69 degrees and let it cool the house off real good and take the humidity out, which was substantial. It was perfect timing because I spent most of the [...]