Weekend Update
Busy weekend this weekend! Let's see... where to start... with the fun stuff, of course!
House Progress
Saturday morning we started the day by heading out to the property in the morning to check progress.
- thermostats are installed and so is the air exchange control
- all plumbing fixtures now complete and water filter hooked up functioning. We can get and drink water from our tap and our fridge now! Our fridge is even making ice cubes :-)
- garbage disposal is installed - we got a special one appropriate for septic systems
- stove and ovens are installed and working (we even turned on the gas on the stove - such a pretty sight ;-)
Much of the electrical trim is complete. Still need some switches and circuits hooked up and some fixtures installed, but that should be finished up very soon.
- grass is growing like... well... grass! Still some dry spots but it's looking really good!
- sanding and finishing the hardwood floors starts on monday
- punchlist walkthrough is tentatively scheduled for August 2nd (tentative, because we're all kinda waiting to see what Baby Girl decides to do!)
"Everything Must Go"
A friend of ours is moving out to the east coast at the end of summer to go back to grad school so after playing around at the new house we headed over to her place to help her with her moving sale, get her yard spruced up, get some oddball chores taken care of as she gets ready to leave, and eat yummy food :-). Me - I just supervised ;-). But Janel put Tim to work fixing lighting fixtures, playing with electricity, etc. :-)
Last Supper
After helping Juan with her moving sale/house readiness, Tim and I went out on what will probably be one of our last real "dates" before Baby Girl is born :-) One of my favourite italian restaurants - Italianissimo. We hadn't been there in a while! It was really wonderful to get out of the house and have a nice dinner in a nice restaurant. We've both been moving at about 1000 miles an hour lately between our work, childbirth classes, prepping for Baby Girl, packing up the house and prepping for our pre-emptive move, staying on top of the final details of our new house construction, me trying to get exercise whenever I can, and both of us trying to get in a decent night's sleep.
After dinner we went back out to the property to check it out in the evening light. No pictures from the evening to share, but it was pretty cool! The interior lighting looks fantastic; we can watch the sun set from our back decks, and the moon rise from our kitchen deck. The different light streaming in through the windows gives the inside and the paint colours a different look as well - a nice warm glow.
Pre-emptive move #1
Today (Sunday) was spent moving all non-essential furniture and objects from our current house to the basement of our new house. MANY thanks to all our friends who came out to help out! Our current house is quite a bit emptier now, so we can start the task of getting Baby Girl's stuff set up so she has a place to sleep, be changed, play etc. It was kinda squishy with all of our stuff in the current house.
It was a gorgeous day - probably a bit hot for moving, but the key was that it wasn't raining ;-). It eventually got up to about 85 degrees at the new place. Not a cloud in the sky. We don't have any air conditioning at the new house, and we have a TONNE of glass doors and windows that let sunlight in at all times during the day, so I wanted to see how hot it would get inside. We were quite happy to find the interior temperature at a comfy 68 when we arrived, and only 71 when we left late afternoon. The house was nice and cool the whole time we were there, and the basement even cooler. Very impressive :-)
Needless to say, we're both a little exhausted :-) And we'll be spending the next couple of weeks straighting up and organizing what's left in the current house. But at least the big part - the move "part 1" - is done with (at least for a little while ;-)). Part 2 will be moving stuff from the basement up to the main floor as the hardwood floors are finished, and then Part 3 of course will be the Main Event. Timing for both of these though are at the mercy of our builders and Baby Girl. We'll see what happens ;-)
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