unicornduke | We own a house!!!!!!

A log home is off center in the photo. There is green grass in the foreground of the photo. The house is mostly in the shade of trees.

Awkward framed photo to cut my truck out of the photo lol

After tuesday's check panic, the closing went pretty smoothly. F did the walkthrough with our realtor just to make sure everything was out. The seller's pod was still in the driveway but they moved it by the time closing happened. I met up with F at the credit union to get the check and that was no problem and was done in ten minutes or less. The temporary debit card limit increase worked perfectly so if you ever need to do something like this, the other bank can take a debit card for large amounts so long as you get your bank to increase the limit.

I went and grabbed lunch at the new cafe in town that was started and is owned and run by trans and GNC folks and got chorizo tacos. Delicious and set my face on fire. I sat outside and brainstormed house things and it was lovely.

Then I went and picked up my PHF signed jersey that had been shipped to my old address because of a glitch in the auction companies website. I can't remember if I even posted about that here, but it got shipped to the wrong address back in April and I noticed last week. Thankfully, the maintenance people at the apartment complex had picked it up and I was able to get it!

Then to the closing! The closing office's AC was out, so we all went in a room, our attorney walked us through all the paperwork with probably more speed than usual but nothing was new or unusual and we got everything signed within an hour. Only hiccup was that we were told to make the certified check out to the seller but since the seller was closing on her new house today, her attorney wanted to handle the check. No big deal, there was a credit union location right around the corner and it was easy to get the check re-issued.

Then we owned a house!

F and I zipped down to the house and started cleaning lol. She also had picked up new doorknobs that could be keyed somehow to the same key and replaced all the knobs. I did some general cleaning stuff, removing things from walls, moving shelves, poking at the carpet. Looks like there's plywood under the carpet layers so we should be good to lay new flooring over it although I need to make sure it's level and even.

Around 6:30, F's local family got there and we had dinner and cake (I made that monday night during crafting hangout) and sat on the porch and it was lovely. It was so quiet and perfect temperature and sitting on the porch was very nice. Apparently our little hill has some excellent wildflowers so I'm planning to keep that area clear for them. I need to remove some small trees that are growing.

(also not great womp womp, F and family were exposed to covid over the weekend, currently testing negative. we were so good about masks all day except we got too excited about the house and were in there without masks together so I'm being careful for the next few days and will plan to test monday/tuesday I think)

I don't think it's super sunk in but I've been thinking about it all day and we've been texting back and forth about plans and things. Work has gotten so busy so I won't make it down there again until this weekend. I'm taking a vacuum and cleaning supplies down and we are going to mop all the floors, vacuum everything, remove all the cobwebs, move the shelves the seller left out of the living room, rip up the carpet, tighten cabinet hinges, rasp down the pull out countertop thingy. Not too much for the weekend. Then we will start moving stuff in without putting anything in the living room. Order the plank flooring tomorrow night and it should be there within a week or so and we can lay it. I'm hoping to get my plants in the flower bed as well as some aggressively offered daffodil bulbs by A lol

Some more details about the house: it's built on a hill with the small porch leading on the first floor (porch visible in the picture), there is a second big porch on the far side of the hosue, first floor bedroom which will be mine, a bathroom with a shower and stacked laundry, the kitchen which has nice U counter with a three bowl sink (BRIGHT ORANGE), tons of cabinet space, and an antique stove that uses wood or propane in addition to a normal propane stove, dining area next to the kitchen, huge living room with lots of closet space, two bedrooms upstairs, one big and one small, full bathroom up there, and the half finished basement apartment. 14 acres total with most in woods. A shed that I can finally store things in and get them out of my truck.

House <3

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rose_griffes

Yaaaaaaaay, HOUSE!

Orange sink sounds cool. I hope it actually is cool.

unicornduke

It is a pretty cool sink! Definitely 70s vibes but not in a bad way.

graydon

Yay, house!

Crossing fingers about exposure.

Remember you can trust a positive test result but not a negative one. (I know someone who is having the GI version; the tests assume you're having the lung version, and don't detect it.)

That is some excellent drainage; long may the wild flowers prosper.

Thanks! Yeah, I'm going to be careful for a while, probably through next weekend at least. Given secondary exposure I'm being hopeful that I won't get it but careful about masking around anyway.

The wildflowers were kind behind me as I took this photo, you can't see the moss part of the yard which is really cool actually.

The figures available to me say real effectiveness -- ask people who say they wear them all the time -- for surgical masks is about 50%, N95 about 75%, and elastomeric respirators with P100 cartridges they have to investigate individual failures. (Usually through the eyes.)

AND they're cheaper on "whole year" sorts of scales AND you can get different cartridges for pulling up the carpet, painting, etc. (Though probably not the same one for carpet and painting though I would be in a full-up gas mask for the carpet. Mold is a cruel god.)

Oooh, moss. Moss is indeed cool! (And a splendid indication that the garden won't need that much watering, too. :)

I've been wearing masks indoors anywhere that isn't a small circle of people and it's the KN95s because it's not really practical to do a respirator. I'm out and about a lot for work and if all I'm doing is running into a gas station to pee, then the KN95 feels good enough. But in the next week, I'll mask with those indoors around other people even in my little group of regular people.

I'll need to pick some better masks for house work which is in the plan.

The moss is kinda on a rocky outcropping and no grass grows there which is nice. The whole area is pretty shaded which I like :)

ranunculus

WOO HOO!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Bright orange sink??? Could you re-purpose it in the garden? I can't imagine brushing my teeth over it.
Glad you are getting rid of the carpet.

Thanks!!! I'm super excited. The sink is actually in the kitchen and surprisingly not an eyesore. It tends a little towards burnt orange with the lighting and I kinda like it. Carpet removal this weekend, should be fun.

Don't forget LOTS of "before" pictures! I lost most of mine from Henry St (computer crash) and am still regretful almost 20 years later.

Oh definitely! I've been taking pictures as I clean and I think I'm going to put together some kind of photo folder for them all so I can share a lot of pictures easily. I also need to do a bit better on my photo storage. They're auto uploaded to dropbox/my computer but I worry.