A day of smooooth

Yep. Easy peasy weekend after a super-busy past few days, and it feels great.

Although it was lovely to sleep late this morning, the blasted PMS headache ate my will to live... But after a big breakfast, pain meds and a walk in the warm, dry and breezy field with Vegas and the doggies, I'm functional enough.

We hit the grocery stores and then the liquor store for a good bottle of red, tonight I'm making spicy baked sweet-potato fries and acorn squash to go with the leftover pork tenderloin roast, that'll be just awesome.

Mid-afternoon lunch was a salad: fresh tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, diced spanish onion and crumbled feta cheese tossed in olive oil, aged garlic wine vinegar and cracked black pepper. Another coffee and a piece of sugar pie topped that off. Hah. No wonder my flippin' pants keep shrinking.

Oh well.

Had enough about food yet? :-D

So yeah, the house. Inspection went very well, although I think we paid way too much for the lackadaisical approach. It's like the two guys thought it was funny or something.

Inspector, squinting: "Looks like some shingles are missing from the roof."
TD: "Well, you will put that in your report after you've inspected the whole roof, right?"
Inspector: "Oh, the roof's too high. Our ladders won't reach so we won't go there."

Duh. That was just lazy.

Like, all over.

I'll be curious to see the report they send us, with photos and recommendations, as I've seen what a $500 inspection got us the last time.

So, there were a few issues on the outside of the house but most are easy things to fix and the owners will have to do a few repairs on their dime before we move in.

We've agreed to do some other stuff, like lowering the deck and fixing the side of the house that it's attached to, as it was declared before we agreed to buy the place.

In essence the house is a concrete bunker, there are no cracks in the foundation (which is wrapped in a waterproofing membrane), the plumbing and electricity are new, the windows are tight, everything is straight and works properly, there are no humidity or air problems and frankly, we're so in love with the place that we'll just deal with any problems as they surface.

We're chuffed!!

Also, the bank evaluator was a super nice gentleman who actually knows the owners, how cool is that? He said to sleep tight over the weekend and that there shouldn't be any problems with his report so by Tuesday or Wednesday, we'll know for sure that we've got this damn mortgage!

OK, time to throw another load of laundry in ze machine.

No rest for the wicked!

/end of Where Are The Knob Jockeys? post/