A Busy Weekend

We swung out to the house Friday morning before heading to Milwaukee where I had to do a couple of doctor's depositions. When we got to the site, the workers were already at it. So we were less than enthusiastic about barging in and poking around.

Outside, we could see that the sidewalk had been poured as was the walkway up to the front porch. We even have a porch step finally.

I ran inside briefly and looked around the downstairs. The drywallers were taping and spackling away. Kerry didn't come inside and we decided we'd return on Sunday when the workers would be away.

In Milwaukee, after the depositions, we went up to my mom's furniture store and looked at more dining room sets. And we actually found one that we could actually agree upon. It didn't have a matching buffet server but it's definitely a possibility. We just need my mom to price it out. We then went to The Chancery with Gerry, my mom's husband. Back at my mom's, Kerry stayed up for a few hours but was wiped out before my mom got home from work.

Saturday, we visited my dad's gravesite and saw a couple of coyote's running through the urban/city cemetary. That was very interesting. We then buzzed down to my buddy Mud's house for his wife Suzie's 40th birthday. We got there well before the party was to start and Mud gave us a 10% off coupon at Home Depot. We then killed a little time there and bought an electric weed-whacker and a landscaping book. We stayed at the party for a few hours and headed back down to Illinois.

Sunday morning, we headed back out to the house and saw the house had been entirely drywalled and taped. Still appears to need some smoothing but with the walls up, we could really start to imagine the living space. When we got out to the garage, we saw that the vinyl siding had been delivered. One would have to assume that the vinyl would be going up this week now. We then ran out to Elk Grove Village for Bill and Ann's son, Liam's 1st birthday. So we had a very full and fun weekend.

We'll have to see how long we're still able to get into the house before they start securing the locks. I would have to think it would just be a couple more weeks once the stove, ovens and fixtures start going in. I doubt we'll be given a construction key.