The plumber is plumbing. The electrician is wiring. The heat & A/C person is running ducts. The back porch got a floor. They've started the exterior siding (I suppose that means paint color selection is imminent). The mud wasps are apparently having a national convention inside (luckily, they're not aggressive). The glass block window was finally installed in our bathroom!

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They also installed little transom windows in two of the upstairs rooms. Even though they're small (due to the roof line), the light they let in, and the view of the tree tops, changes the character of those rooms considerably. Those little windows cost us $1600. Worth it, though.

I've been looking forward to picking out the stone that they'll use on the exterior accents, and this weekend was the time to do it. I had visions of wandering around a big lot, touching piles of rocks, doing some geology, wondering what kind of lunatic would use this on a house, or who could even afford this hideous stuff! Ha! Morons. It was gonna be awesome. Instead, there were three 2x2 sample boards (a dozen bits of stone fixed to a particle board back) waiting for us in the garage: a light brown mix, a gray mix, a dark brown mix. The builder had said "go drive around the neighborhood, so you can see them installed." But he didn't tell us which house had which, and many houses had none of the three, and ... just three? Options! I want options! Bleh. I'm sure we could have all the options we wanted, for a price. We picked the dark brown mix. Anticlimactic.

This week, we're going to start talking with a realtor friend about selling our current house. There are already six houses for sale between us and the closest main road, and it seems like a new one comes on the market every week. Our neighbor across the street has had their house for sale for close to a year now, but that's unusual. Most seem to sell within a few months. Regardless, we're already committed - we can do two mortgages for a while, but not forever - and the proceeds from selling this house are going to fund a hopefully big chunk of this new house. So, we'll be joining them soon.