4 days til move-in

Wow - just four days and we'll be in! While there are still random items to finish off, it's really coming together well. We've started moving a few things to the house; mostly the stuff that we'd rather not have the movers deal with, like golf clubs, little fragile glass tables, and miscellaneous stuff that doesn't pack well. Everything else will be up to the movers. I'll be at work the day of the move, which is alternately a relief and terrifying.

Comcast showed up as scheduled Friday afternoon, and there's *hopefully* internet and cable in an operational status. Maybe we'll take a cable and try connecting one of our computers to the internet today - the wireless will need to wait until our move. We'll be TV free for the first many days, as we await the ordering and arrival of the hi-def TV. The Red Sox will be a sight to behold in hi-def, particularly whenever we're beating the Yankees. Goodwin's High-End will help us get outfitted, and we'll also get them to make sure the turntable gets properly re-established in the new house...still need to get a solid shelf built and anchored to the studs to reduce the vibration and keep the turntable out of the reach of trouble-making cats.

All of the lights are in. The outside lights look really good, and the best thing about them is that they're not the same as every other house you drive past these days. My very old George Kovaks light is up in the dining room, and I'm glad to see it there, like an old friend (and it's probably happy to be out of the box it lived in for 3+ years).

The sauna is looking quite inviting, especially on this 40-degree day, and the whole house looks great now that the cleaning crew has come through. All the stickers are off the windows and the floors shine!















What's not yet done...
We ordered the shower door for the master bath; for the guest, we have a piece of glass coming that will extend just high enough and far enough to keep the showers water inside the tub. It'll be nice to not have to deal with shower curtains anywhere. These will take 3+ weeks, and in the meantime, we'll just have to be careful - it doesn't make sense to buy a shower curtain only to use it for a few weeks.

We haven't done anything about lining up basic landscaping, or paving the driveway. Found some good books at the Concord Bookstore on native grasses and plantings, as well as garden and landscape design. Hopefully, these will provide the inspiration to do much of the design and installation work ourselves. For the time being, we have temporary steps from the back of the garage - not pretty, but mandatory to get the occupancy permit.

With the casting off of several bookcases, we need to get going on replacements; we also no longer have a built-in shelving that was so handy for CD storage. For what it is, a lot of what we've looked at is either cheesy or not worth the price. Perhaps we'll go back to Al, who did such a great job on the cabinets.

Things we don't know...

There are a lot of things we don't quite yet understand how to operate - including some box on the exterior of the house that we have no idea why it's there or what it is for. Even the thermostats have user guides. We'll have plenty of time once we're in to figure it all out.