We are still having some frosty cold mornings. But it has some advantages like the weeds and grass are dormant. We also got a fantastic moon halo on Tuesday night.

Wednesday, today is our final inspection. Fingers and toes are crossed that it goes without a hitch. Dave arrives to get that toilet fixed. After closer inspection there is either a manufacturing flaw or maybe it’s a fine crack in the cistern. Either way it can’t be used. Luckily we have an extra two toilets for the other house so we just steal one of those. I will worry about warranty issues later. Our council man arrives and everything is easily ticked off the list. I just need a little paperwork and then I can apply for code compliance certification. Feels great to have the council part done.

I got a layer of stain on the deck, I put an additive in that makes it non slip.

Last coat on the deck! We won’t be staging the house AI will do that for us. Here are a few fun ones I have played with.

A digger came to site to bore our holes for the fence posts. About 60 holes in total.

Saturday we had a pj day. It was wonderful, I feel like I need another day off, but we got one at least.

On Sunday we went up to Jim’s farm for lunch and got a load of wood for next week winter. It has already had a year of drying so it will be perfect next winter.

On Monday we went down to site to do some tidying so I can update photos. I have a few hours of touch up paint to do and Rowan has a bunch of fencing. I really want the driveway completed so it looks more tidy outside. It also means I then can put a screen up to hide the utilities area.