Countdown

It's ANZAC Day and the guys doing the lining showed up for a mornings work. I was quite impressed. And - they are very tidy - I went in this afternoon after joining the whole of Helensville at Woolworths, and they have swept up in all the rooms and all the house and double garage (but not the west wing) is lined!! The kitchen (and my pantry) look great, to have the kitchen, dining, and family room all lined really makes it feel almost finished.

I was thinking today about what I was most looking forward to about moving into the house; here's my list:

• the quiet - the lack of rain and wind noise. It's raining now and it sounds heavy but you go outside and you hardly get wet. The wind blows all the building paper in the roof and sounds like sometimes it's going to blow the iron off the roof - again we go outside and it's not nearly as bad.
• space - space to unpack everything and put things away in proper places. I love unpacking into a new house - finding places for everything. Plus to have space to scrapbook, sew, watch DVDs, do yoga - all that kind of space stuff.
• a dishwasher - oh it will be heaven to have a dishwasher again
• the quiet -oh did I mention that already lol
• warm - the house is already nearly warmer than the barn and it doesn't have any garage doors yet!! With underfloor heating, double glazing and facing north - I think we will be very cosy.
• Looking forward to being able to find things again - with a workshop and a messanine full of boxes you kind of think about looking for something then change your mind because it's too hard. To have everything out of boxes and in a place will be awesome.
• Internal garage - our cars have had to live outside for a year and of course we get wet getting to them, and back inside again - plus dirty feet - it will be nice to get into the car and stay dry and clean. At the moment we still have a manual gate but George has sussed out an automatic opening one which will get eventually.
• and not having any dust - the concrete floors in the barn create an amazing amount of dust so it's hard to keep anything clean.
• Our new washing machine (front loader) will be nice - and our new convection dryer (no vent required.
• A nice big fridge again with double doors - we have been living out of a bar fridge.
• Being able to use a stove top again - having most of our meals from a crockpot or the $34 Warehouse oven gets kind of boring and limiting. It will be nice to be able to cook pasta and veggies again and use a proper oven. I won't even start on about the bench space.
• George is at work but his top two would be 'to have light' and 'to have a clean house'. Then the rest as above.