We got GAS!!!
Literally, gas line was run yesterday and today! Dave got a new sauna stove and relocated the wood stove and both were fired up and running well last night-making for a tasty cedar smelling aroma throughout the basement....and the move?? Yeah..about that
We all have heard the expression "Too good to be true" and I was anxious and worried that would be the case, we went to relocate our mortagage from the Montreal Home to our Kimball home (so that legally a Land Contract could happen) And they would only give us 100% of our purchase price-$27,000. That's a problem-as we owe $58,000 on this house. So instead of moving the last two beautiful weekends, we simply assesed what would stay, what would go, or come back to our Montreal Home. I rebooted full cable for Halloween Haunted House shows and we're settling back in for the winter. It's tight needless to say, but we are making it work.
Now...about Fred....
So a few weeks back, when I was taking some family pictures at the town park a mile or so down the road, Dave was working at stacking rocks for his workshop entrance (aka Hobbit Hole). I brought the family there because they had a little girl and we had a little playhouse. Then Dave comes around from the backyard with a cement block in his wheelbarrow. Immediately, I thought "Gravestone?" and Dave said "No, Property marker" and the fellow agreed, saying thwey had huge markers like that 100 years ago. It was broken at the base and Dave propped it up at the edge of his rock wall.
Later that night he comes home giggling, showing me the photo on his Ipod..."Fred Hamlin Born 1883 Died 1905" Ah yes, a resident unsettled spirit. Great, authentic halloween decor at the new house! Nice!
The pictures are mostly hung, curtains also, bedroom developing personalities of their occupants and of course, I have made it as much mine as I can. We will be waiting until spring to fix plumbing, install furnace and finish family room drywall. Next March/April, we will move permanently out of Montreal, leaving this place empty for sale, or for rent, or maybe even a business location for myself, Mikhayla and ?? My photography business ran rampant this fall, and I feel I could utilize the basement as a Studio, and Mikki could even "rent" here and have her pugs, her art studio and set up some kind of online business. Whatever will be, will be!!
In hnidsight, I think it's for the best, in talking to the furnace man, he was under the understanding Dan (our buyer/wheeler/dealer) was paying for the furnace and labor-Dan told us Geno (Furnace guy) owed him money. Then we asked Dan several times for a signed Purchase agreement, even meeting with our lawyer last september 19. To date, nothing signed, no money down. We looked him up on circuit court access, and a telling tale of multiple creditors, judgements and a shady looking real estate deal about a decade ago have us breathing a bittersweet sigh of relief. It was not meant to be.
