More progress and some excitement

Matt was back up this weekend and although I didn't get to see any of the work in action since I was stuck at H&R Block, the progress they made was easy to see. All of our faucets finally work, Aaron finished up installing both the ones in the hall bath:

He also did the kitchen, but I forgot to get a pic!

They also put up the new light fixtures that we bought, replacing one broken cut-glass ugly thing in the kitchen and this nasty thing (dissassembled but still clearly hideous) from the dining room:

The new fixtures for both rooms now look like this:

and one small fixture of the same design is waiting to be put up in the connected hallway. Aaron and I stopped by together on Sunday to do some minor touch up work on the paint in the carpetted rooms and to get our new smoke/radon detector officially attached. We probably could have been doing more on Sunday, but we wanted to relax and we had something distracting us:

This is Dash, our new addition to the family. He's a 7 mo old boxer who was just too much for his last owners to handle. With the help of Xena, we are getting him settled into the family and teaching him how to be the good little boy that he truly is!

Next on the list for repairs is replacing all the insulation in the crawl space because, unlike what the inspectors said, it's all completely shot. Given the nice little $232 bill we just got from NYSEG, we definitely want to rectify that problem! Also, cleaning, replacing the hardware, and putting the doors to the bedrooms/office back up so we can be sure the construction dust from our kitchen/dining room projects don't muck up our brand new carpets.