Walls are going up

I think the real craziness will not die down until tomorrow, once Halloween is over. Yesterday we had scouts, and today we have the closing and trick or treating. Tomorrow - nothing. A chance to breathe - hopefully. Oh, yesterday we were able to catch our other cat - that was good, as it means no searching in the woods and no tears from the kids. I'm glad - she's my baby, even though she pissed me off pretty well. She is aclimating to her new surroundings as well as can be expected, I think. A few more days, and she'll realize this is where she's going to be for a while and she can get the lay of the land.

So today is a big day, we sign the papers to formally sell our house. The only thing remaining at the house for us to get are our garbage cans. After all the packing and all the grief from the buyers, I say good riddance. I'll always have good memories of the house, but I'm so ready to be done with it.

Meanwhile, the work continues with some earnest at the new house. The drywallers did a bang-up job yesterday and went until almost 5 o'clock. Karen spoke to them and they told her that by the end of the day today we would be duly impressed. As it was, it looked totally different. The insulators had finished, which meant we now could not see many of the walls - the laundry room and bathrooms were insulated 360 degrees, and the guest bedroom was insulated from the family room to avoid sound leakage from the TV into that room (or vice versa). I'd guess that 25% of the drywall was up, and if they did that in just a few hours, I'm excited to see what it looks like at the end of today.

The other major thing is that the siding was started. I feel a little bad, because Adam's house has been sitting more or less idle for about three or four weeks, all ready to be sided but not. Well, I guess I don't feel too bad... they can get to his house later, right?

I went to take a photo at noontime, because after 5 is now too dark. They had not done any siding when I drove by, so they did one little corner in just a few hours. Given a full day, there ought to be some really visible progress by noontime today. My pictures will now, for the first time, include workers and their trucks - the supporting cast in this saga.