Exterior Lights

The exterior lights were put on the house today. Two on the garage and two on the front entrance. Theresa is already eyeing up a replacement for them though :)


Here is one of the lights.... basic builder grade lights.
We also took a look in the house. The oven cabinet was missing, so they must be working on that... I really hope it's back by wed, I don't really want to postpone the appliance delivery. I called the Forino rep Sunday asking him to let me know when they think they'll have it back... today is Tuesday and no word yet.

Also, the laundry room floor looked like this:

Turns out that bump we felt in the floor was the underlayment for the lineolium. They had put it in too tight and it had buckled up. I'm not sure why they cut out just that little piece... maybe to look under it for a screw or something causing it to bump up. That, or when they installed it, they installed it like above and the Forino rep wants to show it to someone to chew out the installer... not sure. If that's the case though, I wonder what mysteries there are to find on the other floors. It wasn't visually noticeable, but when you stepped on that spot it became very apparent quickly.

Tomorrow is settlement. I got the cashiers check out of the bank yesterday. It was painful to watch my bank account to drop dramatically, but it's a better investment than letting it sit in the bank.

Theresa's brother is coming up Friday night to help us move the big stuff. I'm glad he's coming, I wasn't looking forward to trying to get the washer/dryer upstairs alone. Although, with the way the laundry room is right now, we might not be able to bring them upstairs.

We're going to stop by the house tonight and see the progress. Things I'm hoping they'll have done by tomorrow afternoon are:

1) Oven cabinet back installed and fixed (correctly)

2) Gutters on the house

3) Laundry room floor repaired

4) Driveway cleaned up (there are left over stones, cement, tools, etc all over the place)

They moved the dumpster yesterday, which gave us our first real look at our house overall. It's coming along nicely.

Oh one last bummer... the school board last night announced they plan on raising school taxes again this year. They went up 38% over the last 2 years, I thought we would be safe from another raise for a while, I guess not. 100 people showed up to the meeting last night (i'm surprised that many could fit) and it sounds like it was about 1 person short of a riot to lynch the school board... it's getting ridiculous... this year they want $7million for a new all weather track (the one they have now can't be used when it snows, so they need a heated one... because it snows like twice a year here... oh wait... that's right, when it snows there's no school... what gives?) and for a new stage in the auditorium. Well, at my high school, parents and students came in on the weekend and donated their time/materials to repair the stages... don't see why it shouldn't be the same here.

And don't even get me started on reimbursing teachers for taking college classes... I'm all for it when it relates to their job, i.e. a high school math teacher taking a teaching class, but a math teacher taking a class on history or spanish??? I don't think so.