We Moved In!!

I received a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy on Wednesday 11/25 – the day before Thanksgiving! There are a few things to finish up for it to be permanent and they are all being worked on. Some are not even related to the house itself (2 items are for the shed), one related to the water treatment system, a request for the written blower test report and the rest have been done since the last inspection. Wednesday, movers had all my stuff from storage in the house in 3 hours. Thursday, I made two trips from my mom’s to the house for the rest of our stuff.

I have been working my tail off to get boxes unpacked and things settled. The hardest part is organizing everything when you need shelves to put stuff on. We have chairs but no couches to sit on and no bedroom furniture. I did save the drawer units from my last house for the closets and got those installed. That helps us at least get our clothes organized. The other hard thing is not buying everything at once. I placed an order for my bedroom furniture. I need to try out couches before buying so that will be awhile (after COVID). My garage looks like a cardboard recycling area!

I’m getting used to the various noises in this house. There is a pressure tank & pump that goes on every time you use water, the septic makes a kind of humming noise that you can barely hear and the bathroom fans run a lot, but overall, it’s really quiet. Definitely better than the suburbs where I lived before with sirens nightly and racing cars going by!

The house is absolutely beautiful and the view is amazing! Pictures don’t do it justice. I wake to a beautiful sunrise and get to watch the sunset in the evening. I’m SO HAPPY to finally be in my new home! I started to think it was never going to happen!