Today was the day! My sister and her boyfriend showed up at the apartment in the morning, and off we headed in some of the thickest fog I’ve ever seen in the valley. When we arrived… the keys weren’t where we’d been told they would be. Uh-oh. Actually, we could see a pile of keys in the house, but we couldn’t find the outside door key… Happily, we had the best realtor in the world, she answered the phone right away (IN THE DOCTORS WAITING ROOM!), got ahold of the sellers agent, and tracked down the keys for us.

Keys!!!

First impressions… holy cow, there’s some work to be done. This is the mudroom at the back of the house blogs.asburyseminary.edu… it’s obvious where the dog slept, isn’t it!? Stinks, too.

We took a break from the house and went for a walk.. Ana found an old watering can — here she is demonstrating that it still waters.

Around 1pm, the delivery guy showed up with an enormous pile of laminate flooring.. Turns out he just hauls it here, though, so we all had to stop our cleaning and painting prep and help haul heavy boxes from the truck into the house! They were so heavy we were afraid to put the all in one place on the floor, so we made 3 piles.. this is the one in the dining room. Thank you especially to Ana’s boyfriend, Johnny, for hauling heavy boxes in the cold on his birthday!!

After a long hard day: the contents of the fridge. Looking good!