On Saturday, Oct 18^th we spoke to Jimmy Hale; ha had been in Jury duty the whole week. Although he had not been there, he said there had been people working in the house and that he would be there this coming week…

I don’t think the house will be ready on Nov 1^st as he had committed to before; he did say that it would be ready for the appliances delivery on Nov 4^th and that when we go on Nov 14^th we will be able to stay in the house…

Later that day, at around 11, Scotty Newman called; he said he was sitting in his porch and that it was 55 degrees and sunny, crisp, and that the changing colors of the leaves were glorious… He said he would be going by the house to take a look and would report back…

Jimmy suggested I sent Beth an e-mail requesting an updated spread sheet; I did. We are looking forward to all the updates and to our Nov 14^th trip!

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Spoke to Jimmy Hale, our builder, this morning. He related to me that today is the first day of work for him this week: he was on jury duty. Like me, after one bad experience, he tries to get picked whenever he's called to serve because 'there are some many gullible people out there'...

At any rate, he said all the ceiling work - including beams - is done and all the tile work (all the bathrooms) is done. He told me he had all the e-mails I had sent and he would respond sometime today or tomorrow... My latest e-mail to him was asking for:

1. Progress to date and tasks taking place currently
2. Updated spread sheet
3. Confirm/verify November 1st as the due date
4. Confirm/verify we can have a walk thru and closing procedures as needed on Nov 14th and 15th

... and a couple of reminders:

• Call the Ben Lomand people once you are ready for them to install the phone and Internet
• The appliances and beds are being delivered on November 2nd.

(I was corrected later on regarding the Sears delivery date: Nov 4th, instead of the 2nd).

Will report back here as soon as I hear from him...