Day 151 : Spending the first night in the new home

Okay... time to catch up. The last few weeks have been crazy with moving stuff, unpacking boxes and generally getting things set up and preparing for winter. I will write a bunch of blog entries almost three weeks later, but will date them according to their sequence.

Notice that I did not use the words "moved in" in the blog title. Because there is too much to be done to call it that. Even on this Thanksgiving weekend we are still far from having everything in its place. But I will stop counting the days now.

It was Friday, Nov. 7th when we spent the first night in the house. It's been a long time coming after roughly 5 months of construction. We set up the bed platform during the week, but waited for a new mattress memory foam topper (we discarded the old one when we moved out). It arrived earlier in the week but had to air a bit. On Friday, we called it close enough....