Moving Day Eve!!!

So there you have it; it's Saturday evening, November 8, 2008. Heather and I spent all day cleaning the place up, moving tools to media room (no big TV yet anyway!) and garbage and recycles to where they go, and dusting and cleaning. Daniel helped out in the morning moving stuff around with me, Kian helped in the afternoon, clearing out the place where we'll be building the semi pre-fab storage shed in the back, including leveling out the grade so it'll be fairly flat.


This is our last night in the rental house, I have a couple friends lined up (Peter K and John H) to help us move the big furniture items tomorrow afternoon, and we'll be sleeping in the nice warm house tomorrow!

Pete finished all the shelves in the living room yesterday - here's what the Living Room looks like today, ready for more books! I have a hunch we'll actually not fill the shelves with books yet, but we'll see. It would be a shame to move in and have them full from Day 1, eh? We'll see, of course.


Steve installed all the miscellaneous "jewelry" in the main bathroom yesterday; looks pretty crowded in this cell phone photo, but it's pretty cool in real life.
and to the left, outside of the picture, is another "Billy" Ikea shelf, for towel storage. Funny thing about that sink - it's the second cheapest thing in the house, at $39. The faucet was about 4 - 5 times that. Oy! That' the part you touch and interact with, so we rationalized that was the critical thing to get right. And check out that Toto toilet (it's not in Kansas anymore.) Heather spent about three hours sealing all the grout in that room today - and the tile (as I'm sure you recall) goes all the way around, about 7 feet high. Whew! That was quite a job.

On Thursday, I was there for a momentous occasion, akin to the Promontory Utah event I'm sure you all know about. The very last piece of siding was installed at 11:27 AM by one Steve Rankin, above the outdoor light sconce just south of Nanawall. Small pic is Steve air-nailing it into place.

Larger pic is Steve cutting it to fit.

And today, Pete put in a full day along with us, finishing the closet door installations in Kian and Daniel's room, and putting down the baseboards in the closets (so we can pile them full of storage tomorrow and not have to worry about doing them later), and the bed walls (for similar reasons).

In a word, the place looks AWESOME, and neither of us can believe it's actually ready for us to move in tomorrow, but it is, come hell or high water.