Uh-oh...we seem to have a leak...

So, I walked into the kitchen this morning, a couple of hours after breakfast, and saw a small puddle of water on the floor in front of the refrigerator. Then I noticed a drip from the ceiling. When I looked up, I saw a "blister" of dry wall hanging down from the ceiling, dripping water...
Here is a close-up...you can see there are water stains around the light fixture also. The blister is about 2"x4.5"...
About 1-2 feet away from the blister and stains are 2 more circles of water stains, about 1.5" in diameter each...
My first thought was that our master bathroom shower was leaking. Upon further investigation, it appears that the water is coming from somewhere near the furnace that is on the second floor in the laundry room (adjacent to our master bathroom shower). You can see a puddle of water near the bottom of this photo.
There is also water puddled in the leg of the furnace. I put an old towel down to soak up the water. Most of the dripping in the kitchen has now stopped and the blister has shrunk. Luckily, we have the builder coming by tomorrow to look at a couple of other things, so he can take a look at the leak while he's here.
I noticed another oddity yesterday on the porch roof over the front door. If you remember, the roof in this area is made out of metal. I guess the snow and ice started to fall off the roof and froze in place, in the shape of the metal roof slats.
So, Tortellini the tortoise loves to eat! Here he is chowing down on his dandelion greens, romaine, and collard greens...
The only problem is that he usually ends up standing on top of them, and can't figure out where his breakfast disappeared to!
Here is a video of Tortellini eating...

Grass!

We have grass! It's not all there yet, but it's a start...
We've gotten some rain the past couple of days, so hopefully we'll get some grass in the areas that the sprinklers aren't hitting...
So, I've been working on making some napkins to coordinate with the bowls and plates that I bought the other day. I embroidered leaf outlines on the orange and yellow patterned fabric and backed it with cream fabric.
Here's a close-up...
And another one...
The KD's photographer came today and took a gazillion photos of the kitchen and master bathroom. The KD will use them on his web site or in his store to show to potential clients. The landscapers also stopped by today and took some photos of the patio and deck.

I'll have to take some updated photos of the kitchen now that everything is off the counters!

Flies galore!

Oh, dear - someone please make these flies go away! I guess that's what you get when you have someone spreading smelly topsoil on the same day that the doors are all open so the movers can unload the moving van. I swatted a bunch of them, but there are a gazillion more, I think!

So, I spent the day unpacking boxes. Here is a photo of the vent over the cooktop. It is 1000 cfm and doesn't block my view of the family room like a regular vent would have...

The granite backsplashes look nice for the most part. There are a couple of spots where it looks like they filled in gaps with some kind of caulk, or something. We may have to complain about that. Here is the backsplash near the beverage area...
And the splash behind the main sink still needs to be done...
I took a photo of the scratch that I put on the floor when I moved the table. It's about 5" long, I think...oops...
The plumbers were here today and hopefully fixed whatever was leaking into the basement. They thought it was the ice maker. They also ran a test to prove that the gas lines weren't leaking so the gas company will come and finish hooking up our gas so we can shower and run the dishwasher. We are supposed to have hot water sometime tomorrow morning (fingers crossed).

I think I'm actually going to try to cook tonight, although I may leave the dirty dishes for tomorrow when we have hot water.

I smell the bread in the breadmaker, so I'd better go start dinner! Yummy!

Pack, load, haul, unload, repeat...

Hey, this part of the house almost looks like we're living there already, with the new rocking/swivel chairs and some things stuck up there on the mantle! Yeah, I wish!
We drove 2 more van loads of "stuff" to the house today and packed up the van with one more load to go over tomorrow. DH and DD took the first load over and emptied it while I packed up the kitchen. We loaded up another load and DH and I took it and emptied it. This is a photo of some of the things that have been moved into my sewing studio already...

And the kitchen is full of boxes because we moved all of the kitchen things ourselves...
And more boxes in the kitchen! You might also notice that we angled the lights over the penisula to open up the center, give it more interest, and to move the right-hand lights away from the wall a bit more. I think I like it this way better!
Here is a shot of the master bathroom so you can see how the granite looks with the rest of the stone in the bathroom.
And here is the tub side of the bathroom. There are still several things that need to be done in the master bathroom - some of the tile in the toilet area isn't grouted, the shower door is hinged on the wrong side, there is a pull missing from the cabinets, and a few other minor things...
Tomorrow the movers arrive bright and early. I think DD and I will head over to the house with the food from the refrigerator and freezer and spend the morning unloading the van and attempting to put things away in the kitchen. We might even take DS with us to help unload. We'll come back here on Wednesday to do some cleaning and to move the cleaning supplies, vacuum, etc. over to the house.

I can't believe this is the last night we'll be sleeping in this house - we've lived here for 11 years. That's the longest we have ever lived in any one house since we were married 26 years ago!

Countdown to move day: 1 day and counting! (or, more accurately, 10 hours and counting!)