House Pictures!

Alright…we have been here 10 days and we leave to head back to Omaha tomorrow morning. EVERYONE has been asking for photos of the house. We have been working really hard to get all the boxes unpacked and put away most of the things. The three bedrooms upstairs are still a work in progress, but all the other living spaces are set up. Thanks to Rich, we even have things on the walls. So here are a few photos of the house….inside and out.

Sorry for the crazy order in which I posted this…but it is a lovely house and we love it. Now if we could only CLOSE on it! I refuse to name on my blog who the company is until it is all said and done, but man, I do NOT recommend them! We are still waiting for our mattress to arrive, so currently we are using Lily’s queen mattress on our king size platform. It is a little hinky getting in and out of bed with 8 inches or so of extra wood on either side of the bed, but it will work until we get back. It should be in by then. Rich doesn’t have a desk yet. We have looked at the furniture stores here….all three of them. We have traveled around the Flathead Valley looking at desks on Craig’s list. Still no joy. We will get it figured out. Unfortunately, there is only the two of us and it is supposed to go upstairs, so it can’t be a beast of a desk.

We have met four of our neighbors in our little neighborhood. They are all a bit older than us and are lovely people. Two of them brought us loaves of bread, which was really wonderful. (It’s gone!) Another brought us cookies. I think we will go around and bring cookies to our neighbors and introduce ourselves once we get back and have some time. I was telling my mom tonight that we have really busted our humps trying to get this house set up…and we haven’t had anytime to sit and enjoy it yet.

We did go to the annual open house for the Bad Rock Volunteer Fire Department, which is just under a mile away. We had hamburgers and Rich had ice cream cones and we talked with the chief for quite awhile. We walked away with two applications. They meet for two hours every Thursday night for training. We will see if we have anything to offer to them. I may not be able to do the firefighting, but with my nursing background, may be able to help with the QRU (quick response unit) doing EMT stuff. We will follow up with them when we return. We also have attended St. Richard’s Catholic Church in Columbia Falls the last two Sundays. We enjoy the priest. He is more on the conservative side and is shared with St. Charles Romero Catholic Church in Whitefish. They don’t have daily Mass, but they do have Mass once a week at either parish and the Latin Mass is one of two Masses offered each weekend. We will see. We need to attend a few more times before we think about having to travel 25 minutes versus 10. Well, off to pack so we can take off bright and early.