Hoop Jumping

On Day 1063...

Sometimes the home building (and buying too I am sure) process feels more like a dog show than actually conducting a business transaction. Sit, now shake, now sign here. Well, our house is continuing to move along, but the progress is not so visible. Last Friday we passed the Plumbing Inspection (YAY, running water!) and the Mechanical or HVAC Inspection passed on Monday (wohoo, heat!) . Tomorrow we should get the Electrical Inspection and then the Framing Inspection on Thursday followed by Insulation on Friday & its Inspection on Monday. Isn't working with the local government fun!

It is sometimes even more fun to work with the local inept Bank-Loan-Draw-Officer-Dude. He came to our house on Monday to make sure the work was being done, and so that he could release the money for projects that had been completed... well it was too muddy for his alligator skin boots or something because he just asked one of the workers that was standing around instead of going inside and looking himself, and when we picked up the check and asked why we didn't get the money for the doors and windows he said that he hadn't seen them and that he couldn't release the money until it was verified. AUGH. MAN, OPEN THY EYES! Oh well, we will just remind him that he has no room to complain when we call him in a week and ask for more money. :)

L