We moved. And closed on our house. In that order. We had been waiting on a USDA loan, which was already going to take two months. And then the government shutdown, so it took even longer. We decided to just move so we could hopefully rent out our apartment sooner, and so we weren’t in limbo anymore. But then, two days after we moved in, the loan finally went through and we closed on the house.

We moved three blocks, and Joe and I did almost all of the moving with a pick-up truck and a day off of work. We worked our tails off for a few days to clean a house, apartment, move, and unpack.

Here’s the new house:

And guess what? Two of those awful arborvitae are already gone. And 33 cats from next door.