First Bill Arrived in New Mailbox

October 12, 2024 The first bill, the utility bill, arrived in our mailbox yesterday. It felt like a milestone. I spent a few minutes downloading the utilities app, paying the bill, going paperless and setting up autopay.

Amusing FedEx Tracking of Our Bed Frame

October 10, 2024 Our bed frame was scheduled to arrive on Monday. It is Now Thursday. Just for fun, I am sharing the text messages I’ve been getting from FedEx. For your reference, Madison, Alabama is 55 miles away from our house. I don’t think they know what is going on.

Stop at the Post Office and onto Blackberry Homestead

October 7, 2024 After buying the refrigerator, we headed to the Muscle Shoals post office to pick up our held mail and to let the post office know the mailbox is now the correct height. We drove to Blackberry Homestead and parked in the garage. I cleaned the pink bathtub and pink sink in the […]

Moving into House List

October 6, 2024 I realized I mentioned a list I am using for the move to the house. Here is the list. Things to After House Purchase This list gets updated frequently. I am keeping it on my phone. I add new items as they occur to me and a check off items as they […]

Moved Sites Today and then Visited the House

October 5, 2024 The Florence AL RV Park couldn’t reserve one spot for us for two months. They worked with us and got us a spot for eight nights. Then we could move in the park to another site for the rest of the two months. This morning, we moved sites. We moved from our […]

Current House Pictures

October 4, 2024 I received a strong hint from a fellow blogger that I should share more pictures of the house. Here are some pictures I took this morning at sunrise of the back of the house. Here are the pictures of the current state of the kitchen. Here are pictures of the original pink […]

Cleaning House

October 1, 2024 On Sunday, September 29, we stopped at the house to make sure everything was fine. We saw large tree limbs down as we neared the RV park. We were worried we might have tree limbs down. While at the house, I noticed signs of mice. Yesterday, September 30, we stopped by Rural […]

House Buying – Main Inspection and Radon Testing Completed

September 5, 2024 This morning, we drove to the house to meet the inspector at 10:45 AM. When computer programs work as they should, it is great! As the inspector went through the house, he filled out the report and took pictures of his findings. He went through the report with us and answered all […]

House Buying – Septic System Inspected Today

September 4, 2024 We hired a plumber to do a scope inspection of the septic system at the house. Today, the plumber did a scope of the septic system at the house. The septic system is in great shape, as well as the line to the septic tank. He found two problems. The newly installed […]