I can't believe 10 days have flown by since I last posted and that we moved into the townhouse. We've really settled in and done our best to make it a home. We continue to do so, with a few plants in a window display and a freezer full of Schwan's delivery thanks to our amazing delivery guy. We are outside of his area, but he's figured a gap in his schedule to make sure he doesn't lose us as a customer for a year.
It drives me crazy that the house is just sitting there being all burned and destroyed and with snow or rain in it. Even though there is nothing else we could want to take out it just seem miserable that it's wide open to the elements. Thankfully we are meeting with the contractor tomorrow afternoon and I'm hoping the demo will be coming soon. I'm sure there are permits required, but dumpsters need to start showing up and emptying it out! Can you even imagine what that fridge will be like! Yes, it's going to the dump, but GROSS! Thankfully it's cold so the place doesn't stink.
Work is going well. I'm close to being caught up on data entry and pulling acknowledgement letters. Some stragglers haunt me, but I'll get them under control soon. The staff at the zoo could not be more amazing with making sure we are settled into our home. It's crazy things like a bread pan! A bread pan showed up today in the hands of a lovely woman that I've gotten to know even better because I joined a group of folks I knew well enough to say hi to for lunch last week and now my circle of friends has expanded even more.
The mail is amazing too, when we make it to the PO Box. We've yet had anything delivered to us at the townhouse. Blake's support system has reached out to make sure he doesn't feel the stress of worrying about his family by sending us cards and care packages. It makes us feel so good to know that he has people where his that are just as caring as the support systems we have here.
I've just about mastered getting the Scrip cards ordered as I'm checking out to a science. There is no point in us spending money to replace the things we need to move forward without it benefitting someone. We are setting up an office space in one of the bedrooms to get all our paperwork organized and start a dream station. Since we are in a rental I hesitate to put bulletin boards on the wall, so we've pushed a sheet of plywood behind the desk, taped cork board up on it and with a handful of pushpins we are armed and dangerous.
We went through about a dozen homes with the Parade of Homes this past weekend and are starting to see things that we can dream about, like a stove top separate from the double oven, and somethings that we are truly amazed why anyone would do "that"! I'm sorry but a laundry room on the far end of the master bathroom!!! Um, NO!
Some things we've learned... Property taxes need to still be paid. With the fire report, proving the date that we lost the ability to occupy the house and then when we are allowed to move back in we will be given a declaration of occupancy we will get reimbursed for those months of property tax. That is a bummer, but it is what it is.
The adjuster authorized a preliminary check to be cut and I about freaked when I opened that envelope. The check was made out to us and the mortgage company, so we sent it off to be held in escrow to be available distributed as the house gets torn down and built up. I'm ready for that step to start. I want my neighborhood to see something start happening.
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