Start of summer

The weather finally caught up with the calendar here in Iowa. It has been so rainy and it is flooding everywhere and now the humidity is like at a zillion percent! Yuck!

This week we are spending at the house; cleaning, scrubbing, cleaning and scrubbing. The carpenters will finish up today and that means no more saw dust flying everywhere and our cleaning won't be in vain. We are doing this work ourselves. Normally house builders have someone come in for big bucks and clean for you but we want to save money so a lot of this kind of work we are doing ourselves. Jeff's dad and brother came again to help out. They arrived Tuesday night and worked 2 LONG days thinking they would be able to leave sometime today but they will not leave until tomorrow sometime now b/c of the work. Filling all those nail holes on all the baseboards and trim is tedious. It is finally beginning to look like a house now and not a construction zone. Yesterday the counter tops came in. They are beautiful! I was a little worried because we chose black with brown flecks (granite) but it matches the cupboards perfectly! Yesterday the stone on the front of the house was started. It looks great! The carpet will begin going in on Monday.

The new closing date for our house is July 11th so our goal to start moving out of this house is in 2 weeks. That will give us plenty of time to move and then come back and clean this house a little. It is going to be a really busy next couple of weeks, months for that matter.