It's ours!

One week ago tonight K, E, Randy and I sat at the dining room table with a notary and spent about an hour signing the papers that made the new house ours!  Tuesday the funds were transferred to an escrow account, Wednesday afternoon we got the keys, and that evening Sarah arrived.  Thursday movers loaded the furniture in Phoenix and then delivered it here Friday afternoon.  Sarah and e "helped" the two young men who delivered the furniture by watching them and offering encouragement.  We ordered Chinese take-out for dinner and ate in the new house.  Our first adventure--when we shut the door into the family room to help e stay put, we couldn't get it open again.  Fortunately E's tool box was on the bar, so Randy took off the door knob.  No, didn't help.  He took out the linch pins from the hinges.  No good.  The bolt was securely holding the door in place.  Finally K began to chisel out that part of the door.  We called Bill and Carol, who live around the corner, and asked if they would come help us, thinking that if they pushed on the door from the other side it would open.  When they arrived Randy dropped the keys out the window to them.  Nope, no good.  Finally K got the bolt out, and we were free!  We invited Bill and Carol to join us in the Chinese dinner, but they had left their meal on the stove and went back home.  The door is nice and sturdy, heavy wood.  But the door handle was either poorly made or poorly installed or I don't know what.  There was simply no way we could get it open.

Saturday and Sunday E and K worked on unpacking, stocking the pantry, that kind of thing.  Today E is working here at our house because the internet is not ready for her to use securely.  She figures it will take maybe a week to completely move their things out of here, but they were able to sleep at the new house last night for the first time.