So the time is very near when the house will be complete and we will be able to move into it!! There is now a bright light at the end of the tunnel on my 400 hours of sweat equity. Sheila asked if I could please complete the remaining hours of my time doing the landscaping and construction that needed to be finished. My home is set to be on the Tour of Homes which begins on July 17th if I'm right. This means that the house has to be complete, completely detailed and cleaned up, the house fully staged with furniture, and ready for the public to walk through and admire, etc etc etc. Of course, after the public gets to walk through and admire my home for two weeks, then I get to claim it as my own. I sign the closing documents on July 30th and the dedication ceremony is August 1st at 11:30 am. I'm not sending out invitations because, quite frankly, I lack the energy at this time. You're welcome to show up if you know the address or call me if you don't. we will be having a carne asada/arroz/frijoles barbeque after the event, BYOB (I'm saving my money for the Las Vegas wedding three weeks later). So anyway, back to my lovely photo. Why do I wear a hat whenever I'm working? I definitely don't look at my best and my hair is all frizzy. So, we had a group of women to start off the morning of some hard manual labor until the boys from Juvenile Justice showed up to help us move a mountain of dirt and gravel around in the hopes of creating some beautiful landscaping for me. I was exhausted by the end of the afternoon and then it was on to work at good ol' T-Mobile for an extra shift for Rachel, 5 1/2 hours pay to help go towards said Vegas vacation.
We got the last pieces of sod to lay down and finish off the yard. The hot summer temperatures are drying it out fast though. I had thought that someone on the jobsite today would have watered it but they didn't. I'll have to start driving over twice a day in order to make sure it doesn't die before it even gets a fighting chance. Jose wants to clean up the edges near the bioswale so that they look nice. Later on this fall I will start putting in a small white fence around the house to keep the kids in the yard where they belong. We don't need a Kara incident happening, not on this busy street.
The countertops were all installed today in the kitchen and bathrooms and I am very pleased with the results. I chose a dark finish for the cabinets to compliment a brown psuedo granite/marble countertop. It looks really good in the bathrooms as well, not quite sure how well it's going to look with the princess motif in the girls bathroom but I'm sure they'll adjust. Only three more days and the whole house has to be completely finished and spic'n span for the Tour of Homes. Tomorrow I'm off to purchase the day lilies, flower pots, soil, and other flowers to put in the finishing touches.
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