7 weeks

We're at 7 weeks post-disaster and work is underway to put things back together again.

Here's a quick list of the updates:

• I've received an updated scope of work that includes a little more money for work on the chimney and a shed that was completely demolished when they moved the tree off the house.
• Inside demo is mostly done I think.
• Wood showed up Monday and they've been pulling off roof and re-framing the house all week.

• We had the bulldozer guy show up to move the tree.  Now we still have a mess to clean up from the crushed shed and the bulldozer wasn't quite careful enough and cracked the lid on our septic tank.  It's just one thing after another it seems.

• I stopped by the scratch and dent appliance place and left information about what I'm looking for along with my name and number in case something good comes in.  Since they tossed my stove and dishwasher when they demo'd the kitchen I'll need to find replacements.
• We've put down two loads of mulch along one side of the big tree.  I wanted to get landscape cloth and mulch down in preparation for the playground.  I also didn't want grass and weeds to grow up along the tree and make it more of a mess to clean up later.
• I've been looking through catalogs for cabinet styles to get some idea of what we might want in the new kitchen.
• I can tell that the mortgage company has received my checks and paperwork and it looks like they've set up the escrow account and made the first disbursement.  We haven't received the check yet but I'm hopeful that it's on it's way.