PHASE FIVE: Weeks 37 & 38 - We're Done!?

Weeks of February 9th & 16th - Norman and I are both SO READY to move into our new home! We have worked very hard the past two weekends putting up closet shelving, touching up paint, hanging towel racks and more. We did have a small shock on Friday the 13th (no kidding) when we discovered that we had forgotten to put in a dryer vent! (We are SURE that must have been someone else's job, but can't find it in any one's contract!) Anyway, our HVAC guy Randy came to the rescue and got it installed in one day. I then called the county building inspector, hoping he could come last week so we could start to move in this weekend, but guess what? He's out of town so will do our inspection on Monday. Meanwhile, our friend John Malaspino has agreed to help us move and has loaned us a covered van to begin loading up things. I've packed up almost all of my kitchen stuff, cleaned out the attic, and gone through all of our drawers. We've given away an old leather couch and chair, bought new leather living room furniture, picked out new bar stools, ordered our dining room rug, and ordered wood Levilor horizontal blinds for the great room and master bath. Oh, and we have also seen a resurgence of our ladybug friends. I am told that everyone up here has them and just periodically suck them up with a vacuum cleaner as they are not easily killed. They don't harm the home or reproduce; they just visit for the winter from around November until April. Now that I've learned this, I notice them in all of our friends' houses. Oh, well, they are sort of cute I guess.

I've taken one last round of pictures and will attach a link so you can watch a slide show. Assuming we pass our building inspection tomorrow, we will begin moving in this week, finally in by Saturday. We still haven't put together our hot tub, put down a walkway from the driveway to the house, built a fence for the dogs, or stained our decks, rails, and spindles, but all of those things will be done eventually!