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So close....

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 I can almost taste it.  Day 195 Finishing touches going in.  Including our kitchen appliances! Notice the floors have been cleaned, as well as the windows. Nice to see outside clearly. In addition, they've poured the concrete for our garage apron and walkway.  There's no color now because it is too cold for the color to take.  We'll have it stained in the spring. You may not find this too exciting, but I'm excited to see our washer and dryer. This project has been Roy's baby. He put up the mounting bracket himself, helped put the TV on it, and then spent half a day with the carpenter putting up these soundboards behind our big screen TV.   Notice our "peninsula" fireplace also. I'll close this post with a nice picture taken from the great room of our front entry way.  With clean floors and windows!   We leave for a week's family Thanksgiving vacation soon.  I wonder what we'll see when we return. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! 
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Small signs of progress

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 Day 184 I've sort of given up trying to predict when we'll move in.  It will be after Thanksgiving, and that's probably good.  FYI, the buyer we were under contract with has rescinded his offer.  Honestly, a bit more relieved than disappointed. I'll keep you updated on the house sale, but in the meantime work on our new house continues.   Love the lights!                                                                                Dining room                                                                     Kitchen.  A little harder to picture.                                                                        Front door entry.                                                      Hallway between kitchen and dining room.                                                     And finally, our living room sconce lights.                                                               
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Enough already!

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 Day 172  This is why we haven't had any work done in our house for the last several weeks!                     How much longer can they talk, dig, fill, re-dig, re-fill to connect the utilities. FYI, they started digging the trenches back on September 25, day 139.  And Roy is always watching. 
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An addendum to today

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 Decided to add a few more pics after going over to the house today, lest you think nothing has been done inside.  Roy put up the TV mount and he's holding some pretty cool paneling (courtesy of Costco).   Walking over to the house is quite an adventure.  I've never been quite so close to this bad boy! The latest excavation: our electric conduit. 
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Utilities

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 Day 170.  Well, as expected, but certainly not welcome, progress inside our house has come to a creeping halt.  Finding, trenching, laying, connecting the utilities - water, gas, electric and sewer, has taken longer than expected.  Part of it is the labor, and a lot of it is coordinating with both the city of Colorado Springs (gas and electric) and Manitou Springs (water and sewer).   But all is not lost.  Over the weekends, the deck railing was installed.  It had to be done on the weekends, because access to the house during the week was a mess!  
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Milestone

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Making progress

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 Day 153; 22 days til end of October.  (I don't think we'll be in by then, but we're getting closer) Most of the activity of late has been outside; specifically trenching the easement for our utilities.  But last week, we did see some actual work on the house.   Including starting our deck!  In addition, had to include this picture.  One of the workers brought his adorable puppy with him. Not sure how much help this little bundle of energy was, but he sure was cute! Meanwhile.....almost all of last week and currently, they are digging up the easement to connect the utilities. Next they had to break up the street to connect to the main lines. And of course, connect it all to our house. It's been a slow process, and they are not near done yet, but we are getting there!
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