Our stuff is here!

Yay, our stuff is finally here! The moving truck arrived on Friday morning, promptly at 10:30am. They had called the night before to say they would be here between 10:30 and 11:00am, which is the smallest window I've ever been given by any sort of delivery or service person. Luckily the truck was able to park OK in front of our house (we're situated at kind of a funny intersection and regular access to the house is via a private driveway in the back), and in two hours the guys had all our stuff in the house and the futon and W's bike reassembled. Nice work!


They really pack those trucks in when they're driving cross country. Our stuff was stacked up to the roof, but amazingly there was no serious crushing of any boxes. The guy used a ladder to get to the things up top and take 'em down.

So now the house is a big mess with boxes and general stuff everywhere. Oh well, we'll get there a little bit at a time. We did finally make our first furniture purchase today too, a very cool counter-height table for the kitchen. The picture I took of it isn't very good so you all will just have to come visit us to appreciate it in person :) It'll be nice to have at least one piece of real "grown-up" furniture in the house. Bad news is that it's out of stock right now and we have to wait until late October or so to get it.

Oh, W. mowed our lawn for the first time today too. My parents gave us a manual mower that they didn't want anymore. Our lawn area is relatively small so we thought a manual machine would be more economical for us. It worked fine, but takes a little more effort--Willy definitely got a good workout. If we don't let it get quite so long in the future though, hopefully the mowing will be easier. The leaves are starting to change colors and fall here too, so more yard work but we're looking forward to enjoying a real Autumn for the first time in years.