wrapping up the bits

This week was mostly spent wrapping up the bits of unfinished moving. We went over and scrubbed down the old house, did some yard work, moved the last of the yard art we wanted to keep and cleaned up the carport. It's all ready to go on the MLS after the first of the year. Let's hope it sells soon. My prediction will be march. Don't know why, just feel like that will be the right time. We'll see.

We did have a last visit from the contractor's workers. They finished up the sewer clean out, took back some cabinets odds and ends that were hanging around and primed the posts. Today, I'll treck off to the paint store to get some more of the trim paint so that I can finish painting them. Our "helper" guy told us that yesterday was his last day.

I don't think I've mentioned it before, but way back in July (just about the time things hit the skids building-wise), we found out that our contractors had decided to finish our house and close shop. We were pretty disappointed to have to find it out from one of the subs. and quite honestly a bit panicked at the time. They did manage to hold things together (mostly) for the rest of the job, but in retrospect,  it explains a LOT. Like, why no one worked AT ALL pretty much the whole month of august.......
We appreciate that they hung in there and finished our job, and we totally understand that things could have been much worse. They did send us a HUGE bill for labor, an item that was not only NOT in the budget, but not discussed at all, and we had no choice but to pay it.

They've left a few bits undone, and we've told them that we will finish them. We don't want any more surpirses bill-wise, and there's no need to drag this out. We'll be doing our own painting of the columns, kennel, and there's still that little issue of the dirt work the city requires.

Don't get me wrong, we LOVE. LOVE, LOVE our new house, and I don't think we would have done it any diffenently. We're just thankful for the bank breathing down their necks and pushing them a bit. It is a small town, and they do have a reputation to uphold, they're not dishonest, just overwhelmed.

So.....as things progress, I'll still be here on this blog. It's just going to turn into more of a gardening and landscaping thing, as we (hopefully) make progress on our acre of mud!