J&M got Maui'd!

So we finished moving our furniture to the new house. The renovations have not even started yet so we had to make do and fill the basement with most of our stuff. The move itself went fairly well. We hired a company to do the move, although we had already transported a good chunk of our stuff over to save on time and money for the big move (although I spent many days carting around tubs and boxes over so it was not really an overall time saver). One of the movers when he saw the house said that he remembered moving a piano out from the house not too long ago. He described the location of the piano and what it looked like, which matched the pictures of the piano when we first noticed the house. (The piano had been moved out by the time we actually stepped foot in the house.) In any case, we're nearly out of the condo now. Just a few more boxes left to pack and it will be good bye to downtown life..

The folks who did the renovations in the basement did an excellent job. While they were making the changes downstairs, they found an army helmet in one of the ducts. The posted a picture on Facebook so I was able to link it here. An old army helmet. I found that curious but filed that away. When we got the house, someone had left a card to call them once we moved in. I gave the person a call and he explained that he had lived at that house when he was a child and was curious if we were planning on remodeling the kitchen if the stained glass window was to be removed. If so, if they could have it. A nice stained glass window. It was made by his dad before he passed so I think it would be nice to give it back to the original family if we decide to take it down. In addition, I passed along the information about the army helmet and he's now looking into the whereabouts of his dad's old WWII helmet..

So we've been really busy the past month. We finally closed on our house last week and had quite the scare when we were told that the bank was down and no closings could be done that day. That day being a Friday which would have pushed everything back a few days. I did get the call late in the afternoon telling me that everything would be good to go by 1630, which was a lot later than I had originally expected. (I took the whole day off.) Still it is better than not closing, so I'll take not bad news over bad news. This past weekend was spent checking out the house, and cleaning up the yard a bit. This past wind storm did a number to some of our flora and two smaller bushes seem to have died. We cut one down, but the other is a little out of the way. We'll figure out something before the snows come. Inside, I was able to get the internet up and running. We finally got the energy auditor in and got the asbestos out. The fireplace works again, and we'll be replacing