DAY 447: Yes, Really Did Work on Christmas Day

Merry Christmas Friends! 

Brent and Cole worked ALL DAY yesterday on the railings.  I stayed home with the girlies to get a Christmas Eve party together (it was great!).

We had a marvelous Christmas Day!  Good food, fun presents, and time with family.  After visiting my parents and enjoying a yummy Christmas Dinner we headed home around 4.  Brent headed over to the house to work again on the railings.  He has to take a load in tomorrow so that they can start the powder coating and baking.  I can't wait to see them done!

 I followed Brent over to the house around 5.  My job was to install hardware on the doors.  We now have many doors that closer in the basement!  Whoopie!

 The family room is prepped for painting the trim.  I just need to go buy (more) paint again in the morning. 

 Randy has finished the floor tile (still love it) and is working on the platform for the washer/dryer...

Randy has also started the master bath... 

  This is THE furnace we have been waiting for.  It's here!  Brent has been working on the wiring.  Somehow it's going to connect to those two black tubes coming up from the cement.  Those connect to our wells that we had drilled. 

 The recent good news is that we found and fixed the leak in Sierra's room.  Now we have to get all the drywall patched and fix the paint that was damaged with the water. 

 The grand question is always: when are you going to move in?  Brent and I just shrug our shoulders and say we don't know.  We hope it's soon.  But there are so many factors; how often Brent/Cole/and I can get over there to work, if the cabinets get installed this week/then we can get the template made for our counters, got to get the furnace up and running/then the wood can be delivered for the floor which has to sit in our house for a week to adjust, gotta find the electrical glitches, still have baseboards to install upstairs, still need rain gutters, need foundation plaster, and the list goes on a bit.  We had really hoped to be finished by December 31 for a tax credit, but that's not going to happen.  Oh well.  There is only so much we can do in the time that we have.  That's the story of building your own house!