This and that…. and checking in

Hi Everyone.  Happy Thursday!

Lou and I have had a busy week so far – let's see what we/I have been up to:

•  I've spent hours on the phone organizing television, cable, telephone. 
• Setting up appointments with all sorts of people at the new house
• working 🙂
•  celebrating my birthday
• thinking about packing
• thinking about how I really need to make some cards
• changing paint colors for the new house… yep…. now that was a story!
• re-choosing light fittings for the dining room… yep… now that's also a story!
• making little cutouts of new possible furniture to make sure it fits – some does.. some doesn't! 🙂
• Deciding what needs to be recycled and what needs to come to the new house
• trying to find a suitable kennel for the cats
• meeting with handymen and service men to do repairs in our old house
• rescuing mice at 2.50am!

It's been a chaotic few days to say the least.  However, it has been fun – for the most part.  I'm not entirely sure how I feel about getting out of bed and rescuing mice at 2.50am…..  but I am pleased to say that the mouse was none the worse for wear – even though he had relentlessly been chased by the hairy, furry things.  I managed to extract him from Bilbo's mouth and capture him under an old plastic mixing bowl we use for just such occasions.   In fact, I managed to extract him from Bilbo's mouth and capture him with the mixing bowl all with one movement.   I then found out just how useful my crafting mat is….as it was the perfect thing to slide underneath the bowl and carry the mouse outside.   I think he was grateful :-)   Poor Bilbo.  He sat in the basement staring at the last place that the mouse had appeared from for oh….. about 10 hours before he finally gave up!!!!

I do have a couple of pictures to share with you.    This one is quite a house that we saw.  In fact… I think this house will be the envy of thousands of children…… Lou and I couldn't believe it when we saw it.  We went to visit a cat boarding facility up in the cities and as we were driving past looking for parking we saw this!

Isn't that AWESOME!  I mean… seriously… it is the grand-daddy of all treehouses.   We were gobsmacked.  I just had to take some pictures.   I kept thinking how fabulous it would be for kids…. I mean.. it has a crow's nest right at the top of the tree!!!!  Can you imagine what they do with this at halloween?

Not much to update you on at our house… as not much had happened since our last visit.  When we arrived, we were hoping to drive down the road into the cul de sac and see the siding up – finally we would get to see the colors that we had fought so hard for….. errrr….. mmmmmm…

So, unless we decided to make the house white with green writing… I don't think this is quite what we had in mind for the color scheme :-)   We found out that the siding and stone work was running a couple of weeks behind but should be up this week… we hope…   The siding is quite a story…. the developer will not allow houses within a certain proximity to have the same colors for siding.  Well, that was great, but the base color we wanted – and the only color we could both agree on – was being used by the house next door.   Mmmmmm…. we really could not agree on another color and decided we would have to think about it.  Luckily, the neighbor's had a change of heart and decided they didn't want that color anymore!  The developer immediately called us and we were so happy that we could have the color we wanted!  Now… we really want to see if we made the right decision!

As always… thank you so much for your visit – and for spending a little time in my area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits do mean a great deal to me.

Have a wonderful Friday.  Warm hugs and prayers to those of you who need a little lift tonight and Pammie… you know that I will be with you in spirit at 1.15 local time.

Hugs

Jaydee