Practically Done

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The sod was put down July 2nd. Once the sod was down the sprinkler system guys came back and fixed the malfunctioning heads. Now we have the sprinkler system setup to run three times a day. 3am, Noon and 6pm. The heads are also adjusted to over-water. Once the sod takes, the sprinkler system guys will come back and turn down the heads so that we're not watering the street.
There are a couple of areas that were not covered with sod that will be covered with mulch once the sod takes. The area next to the porch that always seems to fill with water when it rains will be filled in with black dirt/topsoil. We plan on putting a small tree there. We also plan on putting a small tree on the right side of the front lawn.

Something exciting happened the day the sod was put in. We came home from running errands and discovered Al, the trimmer (and assistant to Dave and Tom), at our house. He had come over to assist the irrigation guys with the water access and discovered a small pool of water in our basement. Apparently one of the weld points on a water line to our master bath had broken. He cut a hole in our wall and got the plumber over to fix the leak. He also cleaned up the water in the basement. Basically all the excitement was over by the time we got back home. I'm just glad that the problem happened on the main floor, since the basement is not finished. Had it happened on the top floor we could have had a bunch of water damage to our ceiling and possibly floors before it was found.

Moved In

Moving day went great! We had lots of help. I had told everyone that donuts would be there at 8. They arrived at 8:10. As soon as people arrived we started emptying the first of two PODS. Everyone agreed that donuts would wait until the first POD was empty. I was really surprised how fast everything went. We were done unloading both PODS by 11am. At that time we ran to the store and purchased some pizzas and cooked them in the new ovens. They were delicious.
Now that we are moved in we are only waiting on a few things to be completed. The main one is sod. The graders were here again this evening and the sod is supposed to be here tomorrow morning. I'm hoping that it gets here before it starts raining, which it is supposed to do tomorrow.
While the grader was doing his thing he clipped our gas meter. He shut the gas off and called MUD who arrived about 20 minutes later. They got everything fixed and up and running by 10:30pm. I must be getting old because that seems really late to me now.