SLOW SATURDAY

Nothing much to post today, but wanted to update. I'm in my jammies drinking coffee.....all the coffee I want to drink because I'm deliciously staying in the apartment going nowhere today. Normally, If I have to go out and about, I limit my coffee drinking. If I didn't, I'd get absolutely nothing done because I'd be heading to every restroom in every establishment all morning long! Sad, but true....I know the location of every single restroom in the DFW area.

Tex and Brian are in Dallas attending the Dallas Safari Club Expo today. This is also sad but true. We haven't moved into the new house yet and Tex is already on to the next adventure. We are leaving May 29 to go on safari for two weeks. Is the man intentionally trying to send me to an early grave?

We were at the house on Thursday afternoon to witness the fellow from Fox Energy give the house the smoke test. Well, not really a smoke test. They do a negative pressure test on the house to see how well insulated it is. The house passed with flying colors and then some. He was impressed. A house our size could get a reading of 4,000 and get the energy efficiency rating. We had a 1,578 (the lower the reading, the better). Tex and Phil the Phantastic Phoreman were high-fiving.

A couple little things in the house that need to be addressed. The laundry room looks like we shoved 10 pounds of you-know-what into a 5 pound room. The front loader w/d on pedestals really fills up the space and extends out beyond the cabinets. The extra refrigerator fills up its space and then some, too. We do have clearance enough for the frig door to open easily. It just looks "stuffed" in there to me. Had the same size laundry room in Keller and an extra frig. Guess the appliances were smaller and therefore everything looked spacious. Now we have to decide whether or not we want to get a different w/d and refriferator for the laundry room.

The cabinet man built an enclosure for the refrigerator in the kitchen to specs, but when they put it in the space it extends out two inches and looks weird. Solution is to get another refrigerator or knock a hole in the wall behind and push it back two inches. Ugh!

On the plus side! The deck is awesome.......just awesome. And, they took a chain saw to the tree just off the bluff that was smack dab in the middle of the lot. That opens up the view from the house and from the deck. Makes all the difference in the world. Tex is still griping about the loss of that tree. Hey, it wasn't a California Sequoia we felled.....it was a scrubby Texas post oak......get a grip, Tex.

I will try to take pictures of the deck and the front of the house tomorrow.....that is, if the snow flakes don't start falling (which is in the forecast). It has been so beautiful this past week with temps reaching almost 70. Wouldn't you know we are supposed to have record cold this week......in the teens at night with the highs during the day in the 30's. When you move, is it better having the temp 110 or 30??? Nothing new to take pictures of in the house but I will try to get one of the front with the garage doors on now and one of the deck.

First furniture delivery of our things in storage is to be delivered a week from today! We will be spending the night for the first time next Saturday night. I haven't decided whether I'll try to stay out there that next week by myself or not. The next furniture delivery is Jan. 21 and the other three haven't been scheduled yet.

Better hop in the shower and get going. I've got laundry to do and then I'm going to prepare a nice dinner for the Great White Hunters who will be getting back to the apartment around 7:00 this evening. I will have to sit through dinner being regaled with exaggerated tales of their adventures at the Expo today. (This will be great practice at honing their skills for the tall tales they will have to tell in June after the Big Hunt!)

Nervous Nellie