We had the appraisal of our current house on Wednesday. The appraiser had said she was coming around lunch, so we worried about not being able to get our traditional Wednesday huevos rancheros, but we managed to fit it in before she arrived. That’s a major step in the process of selling. We, of course, have no idea how she will evaluate the house. We have certainly spent enough time and effort to make it as good as possible.
With that step out of the way, the closing date of July 21 looms.
The painter says he will complete his work by this weekend. He has a regular, full-time job as a painter and is doing our work when he can, which has caused the process to drag out longer than I had hoped. The plumber installed the toilets on Wednesday and is coming back Thursday to plumb the vanity in the guest bathroom, assuming I can get holes drilled in the back so it can be pushed up into place. I’ll need help unloading the master bath vanity, which currently sits on my trailer in the garage. The electrician needs to install the exterior lights and hang the ceiling fans in the living room and master bedroom, as well as the vanity lights in the two bathrooms.
When the vanity is unloaded, I can pick up the 12 interior doors that have been waiting at the building supply store and start hanging them. Leah and I have to decide on how tall to make the baseboards. I bought a six-inch and an eight-inch board Wednesday night so we can compare them. After putting them down in the living room, I lean towards the six-inch, although several sites I read recommend eight inches for a nine-foot ceiling. After we decide and I buy a fortune in pre-primed boards, Leah and I have to throw a painting party. And then I install baseboards for a while. And trim the doors and windows.
All of this in the next two weeks. That’s why “scary good.”
Oh, yes, Leah is worried about the cat situation. I have to fit in building two cat pens sometime before we move so that we can acclimatize the cats to their new home and lessen the danger that they will take off into the woods when we move them.
Leah is afraid they will travel up the road to our current house, so we got a sign.
You make my life sound like a summer vacation. Oh, wait, that’s what it is right now. Fingers crossed for only welcome surprises as you put the finishing touches on the new house.
I’ve been wondering about how the cats will adjust. While they’re used to roaming free, would this sun porch addition be a solution, at least temporarily until they realize that their food is at the new place?
From American Bird Conservancy: http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160701/FEATURES/160709977
It does sound scary good there! Still lots to do, but an end date and plans for transitioning the kitty cats to their new home. Looking forward to pics of the kitties in their pens, learning about their new abode.
Minnie — Summer vacation? Not for us. Maybe a fall vacation.
The catio in the link is very much like what we were planning to build for the cats at the new house, except that it won’t be up against the house. It probably won’t look quite as good, but it won’t be a permanent structure. We hope they can get used to their new home within a few weeks, maybe a month. Our vet said that we should keep them all inside for a month, but that just won’t work. None of the cats are strictly indoor, and Dusty is very uncomfortable when Leah brings him in. Plus we wouldn’t really want to have four or five litter boxes.
Robin — The “lots to do” is kind of closing in on us, especially when we stop to think about it. I need to give some serious thought to the cat pen.
It’s possible the cats would walk back “home”, find out you’re not there, and come back to the new place. When I went to college and my parents moved, my sister took our cat to her place about 5.5 miles away. She (the cat) walked back to the house, was spotted but ran away from the new residents, and ended up back at my sisters a week later.