A little update

August was a bit of a whirlwind.  The last days of July saw a hard push toward getting us ready to move into the house.  It was nip-and-tuck (everything last minute) all the way, but we vacated our Livingston apartment and landed in our new Absarokee home one day before family arrived from Germany for a visit.  We moved the last of our belongings into the house on Sunday and didn't even have hot water yet.  On Monday, we received our company AND hot water.  The house went from a construction site to full of life literally over night.

Our company went right to work helping us move furniture out onto the patio and assemble what needed assembling.  We played games on the porch, grilled burgers, and after a few days of testing out the house, we loaded up the cars and toured Yellowstone, Beartooth Highway and Chief Joseph Pass, and made a stop at the old ghost town of Bannock.

On the last day, before our family left to go back to Germany, we were visited by a little wildlife. 

 With our company back home in Germany, it is now time to put some real energy into cleaning the house and preparing to unpack.  Everything has a a good layer of dust on it from the construction process so I wipe out all the shelves and drawers of the cabinets and then give the wood a good polish.

We have been waiting for a few weeks for the final pieces of granite to be installed; the window sill and a small backsplash by the kitchen sink and the island top.  Those pieces finally went in on Tuesday.  Now I can unpack and organize the kitchen while the contractors come to finish up the tasks that were being held up by the missing island top.