Sunday, January 20, 2008

House Update... Again

I'm finally back from Cape Fear and very happy to be home. We finished our last well at 5:30 on Friday (next to the swamp pictured below) which meant we had to spend the night, as our company has a policy of not working/traveling more than 12 hours in one day. Already having 12 hours in after packing and shipping samples, we made the best of it and went to a nice dinner, extended our hotel rooms for one more night and left yesterday morning for the 4 hour drive home.
Here's a picture of the swamp that we were monitoring wells near. Great place for a graveyard, eh? This wasn't exactly next to the graveyard I metioned before, but it's close enough to show the eeriness of the area.

As I said before, Paul's got us on an excellent schedule so I got home and changed and we headed out for our scheduled second phase of appliance research. Our calendar says that we need to have these picked out this weekend, along with getting our utilities sorted out and house insurance.
I don't know how much we are going to get done, but we have narrowed down our appliances to Kenmore or Whirlpool front-loading washer and dryers and between a GE or Whirlpool side by side, stainless steel fridge. Paul of course has a spreadsheet set up with price comparisons of all combinations being bought from either Sears or Hhgregg, which makes it easier to see in terms of dollars and features.
As we were out appliance shopping, it started to snow! Sadly, it didn't stick to the ground and melted instantly, but it did snow almost all afternoon.
As promised, I have some pictures that we took last Sunday of the progress.

The driveway has been poured, and that's carpet laid out in the driveway, as the carpet workers were there on Sunday installing.


Granite counter tops have been put in and the microwave, sink and dishwasher


The floors have been stained walnut color.

The light fixtures have been put in too!

Carpet being installed in the master bedroom.

Well, that's it for now!!

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