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There has been a little activity at the house site, but no framing yet - next week?!? The gas company came around to all the new sites, three in all, and dug trenches from the supply line to the foundations, ours included. It is interesting to see the exposed supply line, because normally it is invisible. The supply line is plastic and has a wire accompanying it (though not attached to it). Presumably this wire is so that DigSafe can find the line later. I took a picture so we could tell the general place the line is located later. Pretty much all of the utilities come from the same place and go to the same place, so if we ever need to dig in the future, we just need to avoid that one corner.

We made a few changes to our flooring choices, most notably finally going with linoleum in the laundry room instead of tile. The flooring guy thought it was wise, as a mis-aligned washer bouncing on top of tile could break a tile. While we plan to buy a front-loader, so that won't be an issue, I thought linoleum was wiser in case things got wet and also because it seemed pointless to spend good money on a room few will ever see.

Finally, congrats to Rob and Bridgette on selling their house and finding a new one to buy! Good news all around!