Success!

Open House at Ben's is over and was successful. Many family members made it to our party, despite the short notice. Everybody was very impressed with our hard work and the end results. There is a lot to do to the exterior of the house but the interior is done. (We really should paint the basement walls but will not be doing that quite yet.) Ben received loads of well wishes and very nice house warming gifts as well. The weather was nearly perfect, and thankfully, cooler. (The day previous we got nearly 4" of rain!) Ben still has to move his office stuff and other bits and bobs, but he has been living there for nearly 2 weeks.

Saturday, the refrigerator was hauled up out of our basement accompanied by a lot of grunting and groaning and bruises. Ben managed to get his "vintage" Chevy pickup running but whilst in town his ignition burned out and battling the pounding rain, he fixed it and drove it home to load the refrigerator into. The fridge finally arrived in Ben's kitchen at about 7:30 P.M. We are grateful it still works after all of the bumping, jerking, and moving it did. Ben is glad to finally have a full sized fridge instead of the dorm sized one he had been using. We also put a chest style freezer in his basement. It is new and is actually lighter than the fridge even though the fridge is smaller than the freezer.

This afternoon, Ben plans to go to Friends of Felines to get a kitten. He will name it "Chessie." (like the railroad.) I can hardly wait but won't see it until tomorrow. Andy is going along though. Life can really be fun!