Views of the home over time

A view from the rear of the property

View from above

Well, looks like I've been remiss in keeping my blog active, so I guess I'll finish this episode, which probably dates somewhere around July or August.

Pictures show to the left the house before a roof went on, with the inset picture above taken closer to July.

This house took a good 60 days more than we were told it would take, and our house on Longboat Key sold after nine days, so we had to spend aa good five months in temporary quarters, with only two suitcases of stuff to last us - fortunately my pension continued to hit my bank account, so we could buy stuff that was locked up in storage.  Better yet, the builder paid the $500 a month storage fees for the three months past the time he promised us the new home would be done.

the picture to the left shows a pleasantly smiling wife who toward the end lost that smile and was cursing the work ethic of all Florida subcontractors who couldn't show up on any day that the fish were biting.  Heck, they even took off when the mosquitoes were biting (which was often, located next to a nature preserve area).

Well, finally the house had a roof, flooring, appliances and was ready to move into, around the end of September 2016.  So Elizabeth called to movers, got our furniture out of storage and proceeded to move in, with my son's help.   Me, well, that's another story but suffice to say I didn't break my right leg in order to get out of helping move in.  So, from my hospital bed at Doctors Hospital, followed by my Sara Bay Club Rehabilitation facility, I spent all of September laid up and unable to assist.  I did not plan it that way, and still contend that had the builder met his goal, I wouldn't have been living where I fell down and broke both the tibia and the fibula in my right leg.  The next blog can pick up from this news, circa the first week in October.  Stay tuned.