Crane Way

We've spent two whole weeks in the new house, and it's starting to feel like home. We've got plenty of boxes to unpack still, but we reached a milestone tonight- cleared enough of the garage to fit both cars! It took two bulk pickups, two recycling runs, and i still have one dump run to make. We only have one clicker though, so Liz is parked outside still. Technicality.

It's been quite a ride. We started looking in early 2011, and must have walked into more than 40 houses and virtually toured another 150.
We actually signed for the house just before xmas, which marked about 9 months of serious house hunting. We were all over the map in what we wanted, and we put or agent through the ringer and had her harried more than a few times. After a while, it becomes very easy to talk yourself into something mot quite right; we actually were in contract on another house, which thankfully fell through, and we ended up getting into this one a few weeks later.
Though this house wasn't the move-in ready house we pictured, it has amazing bones and we quckly saw ourselves setting up shop here for a good long while. But it took quite a bit of vision and elbow grease. Mostly other people's grease, but still. A complete kitchen overhaul was the biggest project, which we were lucky enough to get done before move in day (a couple of late nights from the crew got that done).  Now I only have about three dozen small projects around the house.  New tools arrive in the mail every week just about (thanks Amazon.com!).

We've met a bunch of the neighbors and are settling in to the neighborhood. All that's left is for you to come and visit.
 
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