Operation Broadwell: operation house sold ~ rooftop

It has been a while since I last blogged. It seems the past couple of weeks are a blur. Our house in Emden appears to be sold with the inspection being scheduled for January 3rd and closing scheduled for January 18th. If all goes as planned, we have exactly 25 days to be moved.....somewhere! No, I have no idea where we will go. I am hoping for a miracle and that we will be able to move into the basement of the Broadwell house while we continue to renovate. What an adventure! So, as if the race was not already on to get the house completely sealed up, it is now. We will need to completely seal and paint the basement to be ready to move in there. Of course there will be no water, so we will still have the port-a-potty outside, which will be interesting. I opened the door the other day to find about two inches of snow in there. Exciting times ahead! So on to what we have been up to. We have finished the floors and walls to the additions. The roof is on and mostly covered. Hopefully this week we will have the house totally sealed up where the snow and rain will be kept out completely. Did I mention that my living room has snow in it from the blowing blizzard we had last week? :-) Anyway, once it is sealed up, David will order the steal for the roof and put the windows in so we have some light to work by. We also took the wood stove we bought back and exchanged it for another. Something was definately wrong with it. Every time we closed the door completely, the fire would go out. The new one works great and we can get it up to 500 degrees within a half hour to forty-five minutes. It is toasty warm in the basement now and a huge blessing to be able to go there to get warm. In one of my many trips to Menards, I found a great tool. A contractor's pencil that does not have to be sharpened. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite things. It does not dull very fast at all and stays sharp. At this point there is not a lot for the girls to do but take trash to the burn pile as we tear out things. They spend their days getting muddy, riding their bikes or just drawing and reading in the camper. I often find one of them asleep in there when I go to look for them. Oh, I forgot to mention that David bought me an interesting torch thing to dry block with so that Jonathan could tar the basement outside. What a job, but it is done and we can now lay pipe and get the dirt back in. I was really hoping to get some grass planeted before the ground got frozen solid. We will see how that goes for me. LOL