July 30th, 2018. I just finished the final cleaning of the rental and locked the doors for good on that place. I have to run the keys over to the office this afternoon, but we are no longer residents of 1644 Blountville Blvd. We live at 268 Highfield Road, Bristol, Tennessee. It is HOME!! And we love it, despite the lack of air conditioning (I’m sure we wont’ mind that so much in October through April), the mess everywhere, and having to carry the dishes to the other building to wash them and then carry them back for them to dry in the clean space. It is an adventure and we love it!

Hopefully we are going to take a bit of a rest from the remodeling and just settle into our new home. We need to save money for a few months to pay the HVAC guy to finish the heating/air conditioning on the right side before cold weather sets in. We’ll also want to get at least one wood stove set up in the right side, with the necessary chimney work. I think any extra money will probably go to insulating the right side a bit, particularly over the bedroom.

But we are both ready for a bit of a rest – it has been a wild couple of months!!