Norris spent the day watching progress on a variety of fronts. We still experience "one step forward, two back" situations. Today for example, the shower installers showed up early with the new glass, but cracked a tile. The tile installer is to come back tomorrow to fix that. We are still scheduled to move in on Friday - we hope the shower installers can finish up in the morning while our 5-man moving crew is loading us up at the rented house onto two small trucks.

These pictures were taken yesterday - this first one shows Ronnie and SuperDave using heavy equipment to get the dumpster relocated to allow SuperDave and the mini-trackhoe access to the ditch area that needed to be cleaned up. The mini-trackhoe used all its might but was going no where with the heavy dumpster till Ronnie gave it a shove from behind.


Clean up of the lot continued today, with a lot of work being done by hand. Also yesterday, the mailbox and numbers were installed. Our first pieces of mail were delivered later in the afternoon.
The builder's sign, visible in the left background of the mailbox picture was removed this afternoon. We now have appliances, decorative rods and mirrors mostly all installed, telephone service inside the house, a cleaned up garage, a sealed deck, attic flooring, and a host of items on our list have been taken care of. Several things will need to be fixed after we move in - the dishwasher front that matches the cabinets for example was mis-ordered and it will take a few weeks to get the right one. But we'll be happy to be in our house at long last!