Time seems to be flying right along in some aspects of our life and crawling on others. Specifically, the house is progressing very fast. The foreman even suggested it *might* be done the end of October!!! Andy and I were last out there on Friday Aug 6th. The whole place was framed out, the roof was up and the windows were in. Our wonderful front door was on backorder till the end of the month, but it will be worth it. Perhaps it will be in by Labor Day when I take Mom out. It was definitely nice to be able to walk through the whole house before Andy left for Afghanistan; made it seem all the more real, although it does still seem like a bit of a dream sometimes. I think it will even after we move in.
Since then Andy has left for Afghanistan. 37 days total this year, which seems like forever. Being the first week he's gone, these days are crawling even though I've been super busy. Suddenly seemed like everything hit with the house. Needed a decision on the dualzone for the HVAC guys, appliances had to be ordered, excavator needed to know about the propane tank. One thing after another. Add to that Mr. Boogie fell off the bed and really hurt his hind legs, so he's been down for the count. Thankfully the vet said he didn't break or dislocate anything and gave him some pain meds. He's got to get up standing and walking which he's gradually doing. I've bought all sorts of cookies as motivation to stay standing, so at least that's a bit of excercise. Still would like to seem him walking a bit more, but guess I should be patient. As the vet said, baby steps.
This weekend all 3 of the girls and I are off to the spa for massages and pedicures. I'm looking forward to that. The rest of the weekend will be far less exciting as I paint and clean so that the current house is in respectable shape for showing. Dear God I hope someone out there wants to buy our house and doesn' t mind closing on Nov 30th!!!
