Home Owners Hard at Work

We actually DID close on our new house last week!  We're the new men on the culdesac.

We made our presence known by having a large orange dumpster delivered to our front lawn.  Hello neighbors!  We'll always keep it this classy...

We needed the dumpster because we are replacing tile and carpet with wood.  We like wood.  (*insert gay joke here*)

Did you know it takes 14 days for wood to acclimate to the environment?  The wood must be in the environment for 14-days before they will sand and stain it.  I didn't know installing wood was similar to curing meats.  You have to wait.  We can't really do much to the inside of the house until the floors are in, because apparently sanding floors creates a dust storm.  

However, since the buyers of our house were not interested in maintaining a fountain, they said we could take it with us.   I think it was a trap.  We found these little snakes hanging out in the rocks we were moving.  I screamed like a girl.  I asked my husband if I could burn the backyard down.  He said I couldn't because we didn't own the house any more.  He finished moving rocks.  I watched a safe distance from the grass snakes.  I'm not scared of snakes.  I just cannot function with snakes around. 

The day continued and my husband and I worked in the rain to relocate the fountain from outside the dinning room window of our old house to outside the dinning room window of our new house...

 

We also stopped to enjoy this beautiful little tree. 

I've always wanted a dogwood, and now we have one in the front of our house with beautiful little white blooms!

We visited the house at least six times today.  I love to walk through the house and imagine where my furniture is going to be situated in a few weeks.  I should be packing...but it's more fun to hang out at the new house.