Today our contractor Isaac got to work on the demolition of our bathroom, along with his worker Terry. Everything has fallen into place with our whole move, along with finding Isaac. Isaac is originally from Indiana and is friends with Brett's friend Matt from Wildman. When Brett told Matt that we were moving down here, Matt told him about Isaac. It has been so helpful having someone that we know we can trust to help us out!
Here are some pictures of what went down today. This is Terry doing the work. He is hilarious. He told us that he wants to open a store where you pay to throw things like glass plates and hit appliances and things with baseball bats and axes. He was dead serious about this! He said they do this in other countries. I had no idea, but maybe some of you have heard of such a thing. 😁
We have found that people in Tennessee like to hang chairs on the walls. We're not really sure why exactly, but we had one in our stairwell that we could not reach. Isaac had a ladder and was able to get it down for us. Brett hung a sign on it with Isaac's name on it and said that was his assigned seat now. 😊
That space will soon be the new home of one of Brett's deer heads. Brett is currently painting the walls there, which totally freaks me out! The ding dong thought it was a good idea to stand at the top of the ladder in flip flops to paint. I put him in his place!😂
While all this work was being done inside the house, I ran a few errands. Our new bank is right down at the bottom of our hill. Quite handy!
Everyone there is so friendly. It really is true that people in the south are a special kind of friendly. Southern hospitality is really a thing!
Also at the bottom of our hill is our new go-to place for fast and fairly cheap food. Unfortunately, I'm afraid to walk down there since we have seen that bear cub every day since we got here!
After we are done with the majority of our renovations, we have vowed to get back to our healthy lifestyle. It's just so hard when you're working on every room of your house! Fast and easy is our friend right now.
One of the few areas that we aren't doing much with is what I call the family room. We got the curtains hung, which really makes it feel like home, and bought a rug . We will eventually hang the tv on the wall and get new furniture, but those things are on hold for a little while. Brett's little desk will be moved out of there too! 😊
We finished out tonight with another trip to Lowe's. It was our most expensive one so far, but we think we have just about everything now. As we were leaving, Brett said "Look, you can see the mountains from Lowe's. You don't see that every day!" You do down here though!
It's a lot easier to appreciate God's creation here for some reason. It's so beautiful and peaceful, even amidst all of the craziness down here. 😊 We have noticed that the traffic has died down a lot these past couple of days. I guess with schools starting back up, less people are vacationing. It sure makes trips to the store a lot faster!
For those of you who are thinking about coming down and visiting us, my in-laws and the kids highly recommend you visit a place called Wonderworks. They were there from 11:30-9:30 and didn't get to do everything. There were ropes courses, laser tag, a magic show, a simulated roller coaster and much more that I haven't heard about yet, I'm sure! I'm jealous I didn't get to go!
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