Signing Off...for now...

To all our family & friends...

We have moved out of our rental house as of tomorrow noon & are currently putting the finishing touches on our new house. The HVAC (heat & air) is now installed & working properly...we installed the following items in the last 24 hrs.: Culligan Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water system, toilet paper holders, shower curtain rods, master bathroom vanity cabinet, solid aluminum tubing for our dryer vent, (our builder ran aluminum foil flex hose for 25 ft!!! FIRE HAZARD!) We rec'd 9 out of the 14 storage boxes today...stuffed full of our stuff. (I can see a SUPER HUGE garage sale in our very near future...or a huge bon fire!) Tomorrow we will receive the remaining 4...and our appliances...china cabinet, tractors, heavy equipment, etc. It will be fun!!! But where do we put it all?

Remember the post where our patio door leaked water under the sill & into our basement...conveniently ruining our hardwood floor??? Well, the flooring guy from Carpetland came out today to "fix" the ruined wood. Much to our surprise, there was black mold growing underneath the 3/4" hardwood floor boards!!! Yeah, carpet guy loved that. He was already honked off when he saw that our builder ruined his hard work by rolling our new fridge right over the hardwood floor with no protection...dented the grains in the wood...forever ruined...what an eye-sore...and we haven't even moved completely in yet!!! We just got a letter today from the zoning comittee...they were wondering when we were going to stake out our property so we could start building!!! Our contractor hasn't even been filing with them...so what did my $500 for permits go to??? Hmmm... ANYWAY, I have to ask him to fill out the proper forms for the zoning comittee...and then they're going to make sure that we are "building" within our boundaries. If we didn't then I guess we'll have to move the road!!! What a joke...when is this ever going to end??? Ya gotta babysit the guy to ensure stuff gets done right...(or just done in general)...but then gets ticked off when you try to help...

SO, ANYWAY, here it is...11 p.m. and Liza & the girlz are out at the new house...and I am here cleaning all night long. The "technology" items are last...computers, DVD players, VCRs, etc. etc. etc. I'll be dismantling stuff all night long...and then cleaning. I can hardly wait to start...oh wait, that's why I am on here. Just wanted to let one and all know that we may not be on for a while. We don't have internet out at our new place...so the posts from now on may be few & far between. Liza said it is a good excuse to load up the laptop & go to the coffee shop. I told her to just drive around DBQ, find a unsecure connection...& just park!!! HA!!! Save some money that way. We'll see.

We love you one & all & apologize that we won't be here much in the near future...but we'll see where we are in a month or two...hopefully we can scrounge up a way to get connected once again. Until then, this is the Tuckers...signing off. Good day...