You'll have to wait

So instead of putting up a large amount of photos, I thought I would wait until many of you show up for a visit to reveal the current state of the house. But I do have a couple of stories to tell. During the past couple of weeks we have been focusing on making the house "livable" and "visitable." We have a large portion of the rooms painted (though the touch-ups remain) and the vast majority of items have been put away. I have been side-tracked lately with getting free mulch from the city and fixing up the outside of the house in preparation for the visit - I'm hoping that the first impression is a good one. However, we are finally done with fixing up the outside of the house and you won't believe the large amount of stones we found under the previous layer of mulch. I think I could put the local quarry out of business! Our other large project has been the full bath, which has given us many surprises! Just last night we had a bit of excitement when the cold water valve sprung a leak and water gushed forth soaking the ceiling, walls, and the subflooring. Of course this had to happen around 11:30 p.m., so it was a late night for us! The bathroom still needs new flooring and we need to put some things away, but other than that we should be in pretty good shape!