The End is in Sight
I almost believe it's really going to happen!! After some ten years of delays of one sort and another, our house is nearing completion. It's not perfect but it's very, very good. Our house will not be heated by wood, but we do have a wood fireplace with a blower. In fact the heat with gas from a well on the property, saving us a lot in utility bills we hope.
To get to our house you go down a long winding gravel road through a woods. And then you see it. There is a small clearing with a cream colored ranch style house. Not large, but plenty of room for the two of us, surrounded by trees, with a rock wall behind it. There will be a waterfall over the rock wall, but that is a project for next year.
There is a lot of blue in our house. I like blue, and Dan acquiesced. I brought up the possibility of purple but evidently that was pushing it. The guys have done a super job on our house. We love the round swirly pattern the plaster guys made under the ceiling fan in the master bedroom. (I think the one plaster guy likes our house so much he is hoping to move in!) It is harder for me to imagine what things will look like, I think because Dan has a better spatial sense – all of that chess playing, I suppose. I was especially pleased with the way some of the bathroom lights looked that he wanted.
Our builder made the cabinets. They are made of oak but stained a light walnut. Quite lovely I think. We have wood laminate on a lot of our floor, but I wanted carpet in our bedrooms. We got a little storage shed to store the excess left over from us moving to a smaller house. (We hope it is large enough.)
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I have been transplanting flowers here and there that I want to take from our old house. Dan and I have been packing boxes, talking to movers, getting a new address at the post office. By the end of the month we hope to be moving or moved.
I have spent the last few days wrapping bubble wrap around 97, 384 picture frames with the stickiest tape in the world. This tape sticks to my fingers, the table, the scissors and itself (making globs that are impossible to straighten out) in fact anything but the bubble wrap. I asked my husband if he wanted to do some and he said, "You are doing such a marvelous job, I would not want to interfere." You might think that one of us is a big dummy (and it is not my husband). But I told him I was afraid to wrap our glass collection because my fingers were so shaky I was afraid I would drop something. (Alas, this is very true!) Let's see him do that marvelous job!
Next I think the kitchen will be boxed. But I am going to try to leave out the things I need to make bread for Thanksgiving. We are excited!
Rebecca and Dan
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