I’m still walking sort of funny, but that’s not why I didn’t swim today. It’s Friday, and we usually go out to lunch on Fridays. I wasn’t planning on going to lunch today, though. Today we had our final walkthrough with Ivory Homes on our new house. It was scheduled for 4 hours (from 2:00 to 6:00). So I wasn’t planning on swimming at lunch. If I was going to swim, it had to be before work.

I guess the stress of the final walkthrough and the possibility of forgetting something important that we wanted them to fix made it hard to sleep last night. It also rained like mad. In fact, when I go to the house at 1:55, there was still some snow on the roof of the house next door. Yes, I said snow. It’s not supposed to snow in September, and if it does, it’s certainly not supposed to snow low enough to get on houses.

The combination of multiple days of rain (and a bit of snow and hail) made the walk around the outside of the house very muddy. We all took our shoes off on the front porch for the rest of the walkthrough. Ron, the neighborhood supervisor for Ivory, has been great to work with through the entire process. Today was no different. Everything we pointed out or asked for, he agreed to fix. Charmaine was thoughtful enough to get a gift certificate or traveller’s check or something to say thanks. I was very impressed.

The house looks really good. I may be slightly biased due to the fact that I am ready to move in this very moment, but I really do think they’ve done a good job overall. There are still some things that I’m not impressed with, but none of them are a huge deal. I sort of wish I had thought about blogging the house building project from the beginning. We did take a lot of pictures along the way, but capturing the just-in-time emotions at each step is no longer possible. So that project can’t ever happen. If we ever build another house (probably likely, even though I dread the though of it) I’ll probably blog all about it.