We have basically finished the shower, there are some trim pieces to finish in the master bath still, and a shower curtain to install… and some closet fittings to obtain and put in… but otherwise the immediate building needs inside are complete. The yard needs work still (and will, for some time to come!), and there are some accoutrements outside that I need to put up (dragonfly door knocker, plant hanger, family “name plate” that I made for Tom).
But today the county signed off on the “Certificate of Occupancy.” So tonight, for the first time, Tom and I are sitting in front of the fire, NOT urgently trying to install, finish, polish or fix anything.
It feels so very good. We will move this coming weekend, clean the apartment and be done with being “city people” for a good long time, forever I hope!
Here are a few pics.
The first is from last weekend, when Grant and a friend were enjoying watering the front garden. It is taking shape, and I want to post about it, but so far haven’t had light when I had a camera.
It did, of course, rain the next day!
This is the fireplace, with some treasures old and new: from left to right the mason bee house that I need to put out for our native bees, a picture of my great-aunt and her sons, a sculpture by one of my boys when he was about 3, a lovely little vase from Denman Island up in the Salish Sea, a sake set my uncle gave me when I was four… an antique soy sauce bottle from Vancouver Island, a cup one of my grandmothers loved, and a picture of Grant as a young reader.
Here is Tom in the kitchen… there will be so many pictures like this!
My grandmothers table is under the new tablecloth and all the seed packets…
And one last picture, of a book I love and thought I hadn’t saved after the fire. The story (LeGuin of course) is exquisite, but the title is prophetic. I found it in the first box of books I started unpacking when they got here from the “cleaners” last week.
Home.
It has such a nice ring to it!
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