It's ours!
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lord_kjar and I signed the last of the paperwork and picked up the keys to our New House. This pleases me immensely. I have wanted a house of my own since I was a child, but they are hard to come by when one is on a student budget.
Something that pleases me even more is how clean the previous owners left it. The plan for today was 1) meeting at bank to close the sale 2) take cleaning supplies to the house, along with a few other things, and start getting it ready to move in.
Because I am me I added to that list: bake bread in the new house. Last night I started a bread sponge, and this morning, after my run and before we went to the bank I turned the sponge into dough and set a loaf into the bread rising basket. I then put that and a few useful things, like a bread knife, baking sheet, hotpads, butter, etc. into a box, ready to go.
About the timelord_kjar got home from his couple of hours of work before our 10:00 meeting I was ready to go, so we went into town and bought a house. Then we came home, had a very quick lunch, hooked up his brother's little trailer to the car (we picked it up from his brother's house in Skellefteå on our way home from the gaming con this weekend), loaded onto the trailer the pallets and logs (future dishing stumps) and my trike (which still has a flat tire, because I haven't had time to deal with it for weeks now), and put the cleaning stuff and box of bread baking stuff into the car.
When we got to the house we backed the trailer up to the garage door and started carrying things that go into the house inside. Just as we had naught left to unload but the pallets and tree segments our nearest neighbour came over and introduced himself. He is a delightful man in his 70's and we had a pleasant visit with him. Sadly, my Swedish wasn't up to following the entire conversation, but I could catch much of it, and was able to participate a little. (I did run up stairs to put the bread in the oven while they continued to chat, and then I ran back and forth a few times to check on it.)
He wandered home after a bit, and we had just time to check the outbuildings and rooms in the house to see what sorts of treasures we have been left in addition the house. The list includes a "spare parts" washing machine (in addition to the working one in the house), a couple of wheel barrows, some boards, a decent sized vanity mirror, a work bench, a couple of sets of shelves, a corner cabinet, and a guest bed.
After that quick tour the bread was done, so we shared some before he returned to work. I then started "cleaning". Not that it needed it. I have never in my life moved into a house that was so well cleaned when I took possession. I did run a sponge over all of the shelves in the kitchen cabinets, because you do when moving in, but not one of them needed it. This pleases me immensely.
After that (and another slice of bread, because I could) I decided that I needed the exercise, so I walked back to the apartment. It took me 56 minutes to walk from there to here, which means that Google's guess that it will take 45 minutes to walk from there to my office is probably pretty close to correct, since my office is 10 minutes from here, in between here and our new home.
Now I will relax a bit, and we will decide what to start moving tonight. Our big moving day will be Friday, when his brother will come up with his large trailer. That trailer is large enough that it may well take only two trips to move everything over. Indeed,it makes sense to do two trips--one to drive over the stuff going downstairs, which we can take straight to the garage door downstairs, and the stuff going upstairs we can take to the front door. Needless to say, we have been sorting as we pack. Just now all of the boxes in the bedroom will be going upstairs, and all of the boxes in the living room will be going downstairs. We still haven't packed the kitchen or his computer, but that is pretty much all that is left to do, and it won't take long.
Stay tuned for a decision on when we will have the housewarming party. It may well be the weekend before my birthday, which would give us just over a month to finish moving in. All of my friends are, of course, invited, though I don't expect so many of you in other countries to make it. (Note: anyone who can come from a long way away: we have plenty of room for crash space, come on up!)
lord_kjar and I signed the last of the paperwork and picked up the keys to our New House. This pleases me immensely. I have wanted a house of my own since I was a child, but they are hard to come by when one is on a student budget.Something that pleases me even more is how clean the previous owners left it. The plan for today was 1) meeting at bank to close the sale 2) take cleaning supplies to the house, along with a few other things, and start getting it ready to move in.
Because I am me I added to that list: bake bread in the new house. Last night I started a bread sponge, and this morning, after my run and before we went to the bank I turned the sponge into dough and set a loaf into the bread rising basket. I then put that and a few useful things, like a bread knife, baking sheet, hotpads, butter, etc. into a box, ready to go.
About the time
lord_kjar got home from his couple of hours of work before our 10:00 meeting I was ready to go, so we went into town and bought a house. Then we came home, had a very quick lunch, hooked up his brother's little trailer to the car (we picked it up from his brother's house in Skellefteå on our way home from the gaming con this weekend), loaded onto the trailer the pallets and logs (future dishing stumps) and my trike (which still has a flat tire, because I haven't had time to deal with it for weeks now), and put the cleaning stuff and box of bread baking stuff into the car. When we got to the house we backed the trailer up to the garage door and started carrying things that go into the house inside. Just as we had naught left to unload but the pallets and tree segments our nearest neighbour came over and introduced himself. He is a delightful man in his 70's and we had a pleasant visit with him. Sadly, my Swedish wasn't up to following the entire conversation, but I could catch much of it, and was able to participate a little. (I did run up stairs to put the bread in the oven while they continued to chat, and then I ran back and forth a few times to check on it.)
He wandered home after a bit, and we had just time to check the outbuildings and rooms in the house to see what sorts of treasures we have been left in addition the house. The list includes a "spare parts" washing machine (in addition to the working one in the house), a couple of wheel barrows, some boards, a decent sized vanity mirror, a work bench, a couple of sets of shelves, a corner cabinet, and a guest bed.
After that quick tour the bread was done, so we shared some before he returned to work. I then started "cleaning". Not that it needed it. I have never in my life moved into a house that was so well cleaned when I took possession. I did run a sponge over all of the shelves in the kitchen cabinets, because you do when moving in, but not one of them needed it. This pleases me immensely.
After that (and another slice of bread, because I could) I decided that I needed the exercise, so I walked back to the apartment. It took me 56 minutes to walk from there to here, which means that Google's guess that it will take 45 minutes to walk from there to my office is probably pretty close to correct, since my office is 10 minutes from here, in between here and our new home.
Now I will relax a bit, and we will decide what to start moving tonight. Our big moving day will be Friday, when his brother will come up with his large trailer. That trailer is large enough that it may well take only two trips to move everything over. Indeed,it makes sense to do two trips--one to drive over the stuff going downstairs, which we can take straight to the garage door downstairs, and the stuff going upstairs we can take to the front door. Needless to say, we have been sorting as we pack. Just now all of the boxes in the bedroom will be going upstairs, and all of the boxes in the living room will be going downstairs. We still haven't packed the kitchen or his computer, but that is pretty much all that is left to do, and it won't take long.
Stay tuned for a decision on when we will have the housewarming party. It may well be the weekend before my birthday, which would give us just over a month to finish moving in. All of my friends are, of course, invited, though I don't expect so many of you in other countries to make it. (Note: anyone who can come from a long way away: we have plenty of room for crash space, come on up!)
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