The Ducky Bathroom

It has been quiet around here this week. Well, quiet during the day anyway. At 9 PM, like clockwork, the rodents begin gnawing on things up in the ceiling. I can't tell you how dismayed I am that my new house is already infested with mice. I was so looking forward to a mouse-free zone for a number of years, after repeatedly trapping 2/day every winter at the old house. These seem to be a different species of truly annoying rodents, unlike the last species that merely showed up smooshed in the traps periodically. I finally went to Wal Mart yesterday for battle gear: D-Con and glue traps. I can tell you, that at 9:37 PM, there is still one alive in the Library ceiling gnawing on something...probably a pecan.

The construction crew has been out this week on another job. They have promised to return on Friday to pour concrete in front of the driveway and for the stoop at our entrance door (so that we no longer have to use a packing pallet to step on). I assume that means that they will actually return tomorrow in order to get the forms set up. I hope that next week they can finish in the storage/utility area so that I can put the stuff that has stacked up in the Family Room away...it looks like a smaller, cleaner, rodent-free (I think) version of the garage in there!

We did finish the girls' bathroom. They requested that it be decorated with rubber duckies. I decided to use adhesive wall stickers so that when they tire of the duckies in a couple of years, it won't be too hard to change. There is a crack in the bathtub, which apparently happens frequently in construction. Someone is coming to fix it next week.

The counter is loooooooooooooooooooong! It will be perfect when the girls are teenagers and have piles of make-up and creams and doo-dads to put there!

In the meantime, it is swimming lessons week, so we are spending 2 1/2 hours a day at the pool. J worked on the back stroke today, and L played "Simon Says" in the shallow water.

Filling Up

We drove up to Poplar Ridge yesterday for Hubbby's weekly visit. This week lots of things have arrived for the house.

The furnace...

...and the air conditioning unit.

Here is a sneak peek at our decking...it is a composite material. The railings, in a white vinyl, have arrived too. No more deck staining for this country girl!

The girls' window at the egress window well has been installed. It has been backfilled along the driveway side of the house.

The window well is still a popular place for the girls to play. It is filled with pea gravel, and will have a lattice or clear plasic cover. I'm thinking...terrarium with ferns and little froggies...?

The septic lines have been buried all the way out to the tank.

Because the walls are poured concrete inside of 5 inches of styrofoam, they will not be framing inside the house, or putting up extra insulation...there is no need. The drywall can be fastened directly to the styrofoam, so the wiring is run through channels cut into it.

It seems like the wiring and plumbing is taking forever! The builder is hoping to get the dry wall people out in 2 weeks...things will really start to shape up then.

We dug our folding camp chairs out of the garage and set up in the great room. It was so quiet, with a nice breeze. I'm getting impatient to be there! I'm about to go crazy here in town with the traffic noise now that the windows are open every day. I CAN'T WAIT TO LIVE HERE!