SLEEP

We have been in the house since Tuesday. The first piece of furniture to be delivered was our bed. You never know how you're going to sleep in a different bed, but we have been sleeping like babies. Maybe it's because we're so tired form working so hard. :-) Most of our furniture is here except for the living room stuff. It sounds like it won't be here until mid March. Thank heaven for camping chairs. The first three days were didn't have a TV, so I got a lot of things unpacked. The TV is here now and all hooked up to the dish, so I can watch TV or listen to music while I'm unpacking. Makes it easier. I'm all done except for unpacking my craft room. I need to get a shelving unit then I can finish it up. I want it all done before the pod gets here. It will be here on Wednesday, March 2nd. Vern won't be able to help me much with those boxes, because it's mostly dishes and my baskets. It will be nice having my Longaberger dishes and baskets. The hard part will be where to put them. :-)

HOUSE

Tuesday morning we met with the painter and went over the estimate and the colors I has picked. The painters started at 9:00 a.m. Thursday morning and finished about 2:30 p.m. on Friday. (a crew of five, and one of them was 81 years old) I made it easy for them, just 3 colors. I really like the colors. You never know for sure what they will look like. We got the sample size paint and put it on the wall, but a 5 inch square looks different than a whole wall. The painters did a great job.



We started moving some things in on Thursday and took 4 car loads over today. Vern has everything out of the motor home basement and I will have almost everything out of the motor home on Sunday. The only thing left will be clothes and a few dishes.



We went Friday and ordered most of the furniture from 3 different stores. Most of it will be delivered on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Our bed will be delivered on Tuesday, so our first night in the house will be Tuesday.



One of the neighbors stopped by and introduced himself and told us a little about some of the other neighbors. He said he was on the way to the recycle center and would take our garbage if we had any. Here you can have a garbage service with curb side pickup, or pay a yearly fee and take your garbage and recycle things to a recycle center. That is what we are going to do. We have always recycled until we sold the house, so we'll be able to start it again. More about the house in a few days.

BIG CHANGES

Monday was the day of big changes for us. Some of you figured out what the changes were. Our big news is that we bought a house on the Francis Lake golf course here in Lake Park, GA. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths. It is a story and a half and has a bonus room upstairs, or it could be a 4 bedroom. I told Vern it could be his man cave. :-) One of the bedrooms is going to be my craft/sewing room. YEA!!!!! I've spent the last couple of weeks picking out paint colors and furniture. It has been fun and a bit stressful. I've changed my mind a couple of times on paint colors, but today we met with the painter and gave him the colors, so I can't change my mind again. Picking out furniture has been a lot of fun. Vern keeps saying whatever I want. He has giving me his in put a couple of times. Some of the furniture has been ordered and will be here in a couple of weeks, the rest I'll order this week and will be here in about a week. We plan on being in the house by the first of March. The painter plans on being done next week. I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This has been a very long month waiting for the closing day. Today we went to the bank and got our accounts set up. In the last 2 days we have signed our names more than I can count. Our new address is --

5331 Tall Oaks Drive

Lake Park, Ga 31636

We've already had some mail. Now comes the fun of notifying everyone of the change of address. Oh, we also sold the motor home.

SHOPPING

I've been dragging Vern around shopping. Well window shopping. I've found a lot of things that I like, but will have to wait awhile before I can buy anything. That gives me time to decide for sure which things I want. So many decisions. :-) We have driven by this one store called Country Cobbler many times and wondered what it was. I said it was a shoe store. We decided to check it out to see what it was. I was right a shoe store, an expense shoe store.



We've been driving around Lake Park and found some housing areas we didn't know were there. We've also found more lakes and ponds. We've also found a couple new restaurants, but haven't checked them out yet. Let you know when we do.



Our big change is getting closer. It's just not getting here fast enough.