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The furniture has arrived!!!

Well..the furniture arrived all intact....no breakage of anything!! So thankful for that! The two guys who went to Michigan were magnificent....as were the other helpers on both ends. We are so blessed with wonderful friends!! On this end, our handyman Charles and his helper got the major part of the furniture unloaded in 1 HOUR!!! Placed it all to our satisfaction....it all looks great. Since then have been busy unpacking boxes and putting stuff away. So glad that I got the kitchen all dealt with before the rest got here.



Now it pretty much is as it will be! Some pictures to hang up....some things to put out. The back porch and the guest rooms are pretty much not done yet at all....but it will all fall into place. If we have not communicated with you individually during this time, please forgive us! You cannot imagine how tired we are at the end of the day....up and down the stairs many, many times....lugging around and unloading boxes! Our feet, legs and back ache!! And half the time our mind is boggled with lists of things to do and get! I go to Walmart AT LEAST once a day. Thank goodness there is one in this little burg. I leave for MI tomorrow. I will leave the Internet connector (our Broadband) here with Mike. He HAS to have something to do as we have VERY limited TV!! Will be in touch as I am able. Will go to the library daily. And have my cell too! Better go now....Mike says the pork steaks are about ready....and I have corn to do to go along with those and the potato salad. Wish you were here....but really...we DO need this time together since we are not together much these days at all. Will add to this in about 2 weeks. Check it from time to time....when I send reminder emails, I don't mean to bug ya.....know that everyone is BUSY too!

Here is the foyer/sitting room....coming together really nicely. We are pretty happy with it!

Here are two views of our TV room....where we most likely will spend a good deal of time. It also does not have all the pics on the walls...and everything on the shelves. Need to bring the DISH box, the DVD player, and all the stereo stuff....then plug in the empty places with books....which we have PLENTY of!! It was hard...but we fitted our massive mission furniture into this moderate space! Right now we get NO channels on our new big screen HD TV (which we bought with our stimulus money like the good patriots we are!). So we spend time sitting on the couch and in the recliner watching a BIG blank screen!! ;-)

The dining room. If you do notice that there is no table....you are not hallucinating! We cannot find the bolts which they took out when they took the table apart. They are sure to turn up at some point. Til then...we will eat on our porch or outside. (When we get the patio set up!!)

Here is the pond area....really looking lush and good but needs attention and weeding! Our front porch

Our Rhododendron! Thanks Laura for confirming it to be that! And thanks to Micki and Barb for identifying that tree in the previous post as a tulip tree! They are sooo pretty...we love them!

Two photos of our bedroom....still a work in progress...but progress is being made!

The latest from Owensville

I have been here for the past 3 days. Got all the boxes I brought (all the kitchen stuff) and most of the boxes Mike had brought on previous trips (mostly books) unpacked and put away. Worked literally from 6 AM to 6PM at least. Here is a picture of the sitting room starting to come together. Mike and his buddies are on their way with the bulk of the furniture now. Will arrive Thursday and then the fun will begin! The kitchen starting to come together.....

Our pitcher collection on the high shelf in the kitchen

A tree outside in the back yard...anyone know what kind it is? It has leaves that look like maple leaves.....and yellow blossoms. We have 3 of these trees......

Looking down toward the patio....we have what I think is a Rhododendron bush too!

The upstairs hallway starting to come together. The rest of the rooms don't have much furniture yet. Will post more pictures when it comes and is in place. I do have to say...love it here! Love the town and love the house. So does Cali!

Update....from Michigan

Hi everyone.....Mike did come home and now is back in Owensville. Soon it will be reversed! My last day at my job is Thursday. I will leave Saturday and head down with the car fully loaded. Mike will get back here on Friday and his two buddies from St. Louis will arrive that day also. They will then load up the van and the huge covered trailer that one of friends from up here is lending us....and take off with most, if not all, of the furniture. We then will have (at least) 2 more smaller loads of small stuff.....clothes and shoes, lawn furniture and planters and odds and ends to take over the rest of June....and then we think and hope we will be done!

Our house here will be put on the market this week...realtor coming out to put out signs tomorrow. When I get the link to it, I will post it. Until we sell, we will leave here a futon, tables and chair in the livingroom, a smaller dining room table in the diningroom, a double bed and chest in the downstairs bedroom and the bunkbeds upstairs and out in the bunkhouse. We will leave some lawn chairs too. We will come back from time to time...maybe not so much this summer but if we still have it, will for sure come back next summer. We will have to come back each spring and each fall to winterize and unwinterize and clean up the yard also. We really, really hope that it sells soon, but the real estate person is not very optimistic I am sorry to say. Times are very hard up here in Michigan.

Right now, it really doesn't look that different here inspite of all the knickknacks being packed away. Most of the kitchen stuff is packed also. Once the furniture is packed, it definitely will look different!

When I get to Owensville and unpack some stuff, will get some new pictures up. Until then..... Judy