No brick termiites!

The inspection has been completed and we are going forward with the pruchase. (We'd better -- we finally told Rosa and she's going to try and fill the place for Dec. 1. $1000/mo. for a cute 1 bedroom 5 minutes from Davis. Help her out here folks. She promises to get the loo fixed, first.)

Let's see... details. (Skip this 'graph if you don't care.) The roof is about 4 years old, the furnace 20. The kitchen is slightly smaller than we'd remembered. Hell, everything is slightly smaller than we remember. But the windows are actually bigger. Our inspector was a nice Irish guy from b-sure inspections, last seen on Trading Spaces and This Old House. If it's good enough for Norm, it's good enough for me.

We're still aiming to close on Halloween, and planning to see Arthur Banks, our mortgage guy, this afternoon. After that, our plans run something like this: Get the led inspectors in. Get the lead mitigators in. Knock down the wall to the pantry (which, alas, is also smaller than I remembered). Paint the place. Go to Ikea, buy many hundreds of feet of shelving of the library, the storage area, and the pantry.

Then move in. Before Thanksgiving, if the Gods are kind. Most likely after.

Than begins the long process of retrieving our stuff from the attics and basements where it has been stored for years.

If anyone can recommend a decent moving company, Christopher and I have decided that we're over 30 and have a baby and the "get your friends to help you out" doesn't work any more. Though, since we've moved David Hobeman sixteen times, we're going to make him help pack all the books. (Joking!)

Let's see... anything else you might be interested in? Oh, we're painting May's room a pale green, the living room bright buttery yellow with red highlights, the kitchen will be white with dark blue accents (this blue, in fact!), and our bedroom will be a very pale blue.

The color of the library is much debated. But we'll be using the Billi bookshelves from Ikea because... well, because they are cheap and modular.

Fianlly, I'd like to announce a brother blog! Christopher has decided to start a blog about all thing WWII. And if you're thinking that WWII is over and there's nothing new, you're wrong. Not about the war being over, but about there being nothing new to think about. Or so Christopher assures me. So check out Doolittle's here. And please note that the misspelling of Doolittle is my fault, not Christopher's.