Killing Time

I'll have a house update one of these days, but in the mean time you can look at these photos of the chins. They hate having their picture taken, but we do it anyway! (Oh, come on, you knew they'd be on here eventually.)

Dusty on his hay tote. Notice the notch in his ear. We have no idea what happened but the general consensus is Rocky happened.

Rocky wondering what's up. Look at the cankles on that kid!

We Don't Usually Like Neighbors

We don't usually like our neighbors. We've had pot smokers; drunk 20-year olds who like to climb on roofs; creepy private detectives; and our current crazy old pack rat. We haven't told Joan that we are going to be moving later this summer. She is going to flip. It should be quite the sight.

Our house is the first to be built in our development. Actually, our lot is the only one that has sold. The lot next to us backs up to a small pond and is almost completely covered in trees. The developer has told us that several deer and turkeys call these trees home. Our hope is that no one will ever purchase the lot and the trees will remain. Our back deck will have a great view of the trees and all of the wildlife that inhabits them.

When Dave and I were out inspecting the basement the other day we took a walk down to the pond. We were delighted to encounter our new neighbors along the way...

Introducing Gnome

Meet Gnome (pronounced no-me) the Gnome. He'll be seductively joining us on our house building adventure.

What A Week!

We had a pretty crazy but exciting week here. Tax season finally ended on Wednesday after three grueling days of last minute projects (goodbye 60+ hour weeks). That was quite the relief in itself, but to make the week even better, the concrete guys were busy at our place pouring basement walls! Yep, we have a basement. If it wasn't official before, it is now!

Dave and I drove out the lot on Friday afternoon and as we came around the corner to the development we saw this:


There's actually 4 concrete trucks there (one is hidden behind the others). We were ecstatic! So, of course we had to be those people who get out and gawk and take lots of pictures.

Yeah, I'm only posting two of the thousands of photos Dave took. Thank God for digital cameras.

The fact that we now have basement walls was quite the sight for us. We've owned this lot for so long and had this plan to build a house, but it was always just an empty lot and a plan. I think it hit both of us as we rounded that corner that this is really it. We're finally getting our house. Of couse the feelings went quickly from excitement to panic as I realized that I had a lot of decisions to be making SOON! But we'll deal with that. For the mean time we have walls!

-Sarah

I Like Dirt

We are on our way!

Weather Permitting

If the weather cooperates, they are going to start digging tomorrow and we should have a basement by the end of the week!!!

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