THE HOUSE AGAIN/STILL

Our stay here at the rental appears to be drawing to a close. The insurance company has made it clear that the lease is up on the ninth of September and the company is picking up our rented furniture that day so I sure as hell hope the other house is done and our stuff back from storage.
The floors are finally in. The painting is done except for spots that need touching up. The wiring needs to be connected, the lights put in and the gas hooked up.

The carpeting is in for John's room and upstairs, and down the stairs.

This is nothing to most people but in all the years we have lived in that house we have never had carpeting, only rugs. And never upstairs or on the stairway.

We still have an unusable bathroom upstairs which will require re-plumbing, but it was undamaged by water and so the insurance paid nothing towards fixing it. We have decided to wait until we re-group after learning what we owe for the extra stuff we did-- like the furnace and this carpet.

The Laminate flooring is also in. We have always had the original tile on the floors and/or some other kind of tile, covered by rugs.

This floor to me is much more exciting than the carpeting. The depressing part to me is we are getting back the same junky stuff we shipped out, and it all has to be put away, oh good Lord what a chore!!

I had Cooper at the house the other day, with part of the flooring in, and he seemed to take it all in stride-- it was nothing new but they won't feel that way once we really move back. It will smell entirely different and, I suspect, need to be marked (Thank you, Nigel. He will have to be watched very carefully.)

And we need new curtains or blinds. And area rugs.

And something has to be done with the back yard.

There is so much to do.

I have contracted with my son and his glassblowing company to make us a fixture for the living room ceiling light.

My housewarming gift to me.