Tuesday evening we had arranged to go to Barnhartvale and pick up a Kenmore clothes washer that we found on Craigslist. It was a great deal and it was something we were definitely going to need. It seemed silly to cart it all the way back home, only to have to load it and move it back up to the house in a few weeks, so we decided to put it straight into the basement at the new place. Being the summer solstice, the weather gods had finally relented and thrown us a bone. It was a beautiful 27*C day for the official first day of summer. We had a nice drive up to the house, enjoying the fruits of my Sunday labour - a driveway with fewer holes and ruts.

We were excited to see that all the plywood decking had been installed all the way around the house. It makes the place look bigger! Many of the roof rafters were also in, with the roof sheathing started over the master bedroom. It was nice to see the shape of the eaves and, of course, led to imagining how the finished house was going to look. Very exciting!

We managed to lower the washer out of the truck box without causing any damage to it or our backs. After sliding it over the basement threshold on a couple of 2x12 planks, we were able to roll it into an out-of-the-way corner and covered it with a tarp. It was kind of cool to realize that we had started to move in!