I know our passionate and devoted followers haven’t received an update in quite some time so I figured I better throw something up. It will be minus Erin’s normal pictorial bonanza as the camera is buried somewhere and hasn’t been found yet. I would expect to see some new pictures in the next couple of days.

At about 0945 on Friday morning we completed the final signatures and took possession of our new home. It has been a whirlwind since then to say the least…

On Friday we took care of sealing all the grout. No idea why they consider that home owner maintenance as opposed to what you normally do when you install tile but Erin and I completed that task to ensure our grout would stay new looking. The first two POD containers had arrived by dinner time. One of our windows was fixed and the phone installation had been finished before we headed back to downtown for the last night in our apartment.

On Saturday we packed up the majority of our belongings in the apartment and headed back to the house to meet the movers for 0830. They arrived and with the cooperation of PODS, all three of our pods had been emptied and moved into the appropriate part of the house by 1130. For some reason though the entire 2.5 car garage was full even though we came from a 2 car garage - maybe my tools multiplied on the way here? We spent the majority of the day focused on the upstairs and by 1800, Madden was running on the big screen… Oh and we set up the master bedroom and the two other bedrooms.

Sunday was Kitchen day and underneath 32,000 pounds of wrapping paper we found most of our Kitchen. It is amazing how dirty stuff your old stuff looks when you move it into a new house. The house is pretty livable and mostly unpacked with the exception of the garage and a complete sparseness of furnishings.

More soon…