These two dudes dug it out, and moved it south about 18 inches. Notice the nice braid on the guy on the right.
Luckily, it was about 70 degrees that day. I wore shorts and did a lot of sidewalk supervising. Gave 'em a Diet Coke. There was a leak, right at the meter, so the super-competent City will fix that.
They put all the sod back in place, and they'll have to pour a new slab of stupid concrete, because this one broke into pieces. Happy New Year, everyone! Don't drink & drive.
The Smart seemed to need decorating, too, so we bought this little outfit at Walgreens. We have named the Smart "Pookie", after the lion puppet on Soupy Sales, so this is Pookie the Red Nosed Smart-deer:
Those of you who remember Soupy Sales' kids show (mostly us Midwesterners) might like to check out some of his shows on youtube (my F&J coworkers had better not view this at work - check it out at home!) Here's a good one - fast forward to 3:42 and watch for Pookie singing the "Chew Tobacco Rag" - keep on watching until 7:11 for the last gag.
Jim likes guns, so everything is a gun to him. Thanks for the nice shelves, boys!
Next, they had to hang some artwork for us. It took a lot of precise measurements, but we didn't have to patch over any holes. 
Later, out on the patio, this katydid (or whatever bug) hung out with us:
Finally, here I am getting some free water from our rain barrels. 
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
This car would make the Batmobile look like a salt ride.
Here's a picture of the interior I got from the Morgan USA website. Even if you're not into cars, wouldn't you like to sit in that cockpit, take a deep whiff of the leather smell, and just drift into a nice daydream about gliding down the road in this beauty?
Dining room (that artwork on the floor has been hung up now):
Hubby took this pic from the bridge this evening. We can look down and hawk loogies at each other. Ewwww! More artwork that needs to be hung up.
Here's the same shot today. That's a Texas redbud tree in the back corner.
Here's the front again, complete with grass.
I have missed working in the garden for about 8 months now - yanking up that ivy around the tree all summer didn't count. They left us a spot in the back yard to plant kitchen herbs - that's about all I can do - the rest is done! 
Along the west side, we had rain barrels installed this week, along with some gizmos called rain tubes that are supposed to keep all the leaves & gunk out of the gutters. We didn't mind cleaning them out at our old, one story house, but there's no way we're climbing up two stories to clean out gutters. Anyway, with the rains we get here, we should be able to water the plants now & then with free water.
Here's a front yard shot. All that mulch they put in really stinks!
Big Dave likes to call it landscraping. Well, they do a fair amount of scraping, don't they? And digging, and planting. Our landscape guys are hard at work, and they have unearthed another lucky horse shoe. There it is on the right, next to the 4 that turned up on St. Patrick's Day. That horse had big hooves. Blocky fellow.
Here are some of the plants in the back yard, these grassy things will fill in and look nice.
They haven't put them in the ground yet, but these shrubberies have beautiful purple berries. The birds will enjoy them.
Here is the front yard. Our Bureaucracy Oak has been yanked out & replaced by this Little Hip Hawthorne. It's going to have to be moved, though, because it's competing with the stained glass window for attention (the window ALWAYS wins).
Have you missed the blog posts? Suggest a new topic, if you want. 
Here's the family room, I think I took this pic the day after we moved in:
Here it is now - we still need to hang some pictures, but we're getting there.
They're using some of the stones we brought over from the old house - more recycling. 
Right now, the irrigation guys are digging trenches and putting in the sprinklers. Once that is done, the landscaper will come back & do the planting. 
Big Dave could have restored this 'Vette, except this one is in Texas. 
Everyone is always interested in kitchens. Here is ours, as empty and clean as it will EVER be:
Here's the stairway to our 2,000 sq foot attic (the upstairs).
And here is the master bathroom, downstairs. 
Is Denny's open? When are the movers coming? 
This is the back of the yard. We chose a taller fence than we had before. 
We had extra brick and stone from the house, and our builder had some workers stack it neatly in the back corner of the yard. Where it was directly in the way of the fence guys. So hubby and I got our gloves and moved about a half pallet of brick, along with the stone, about 3 or 4 feet. In the picture below, you can see the pallet it used to be on. We moved those bricks, two by two, into the pile on the right. Those of you who go to the gym - here's a new workout for the whole body: Go out in the hot sun, move a bunch of bricks and stone, and stack them out of the way so somebody can access the area they need. Woof! We lost a couple pounds of sweat on that job.
Here's the finished fence - nice!
God bless those workers who are out in our hot weather every day. They have built us a lovely new home, and we are moving tomorrow!
We'll be off the blog for a few days until we can unpack, and get our internet connection going again. 
Here is the red tag the inspector left - see the middle line? "No sidewalk." Thanks, dude, you couldn't have mentioned that the same day you required the Bureaucracy Oak? 
So, we called the movers and delayed everything for one day. We had planned to move on Wednesday, but everyone would have to slog through this mess:
They should pour the sidewalk and re-pour the driveway on Wednesday. The movers will have to leave their trucks on the street and bring everything in, but that's what they usually do, anyway. Look, they had to move the Bureaucracy Oak to make room for the sidewalk:
We're keeping a sense of humor - what else can we do? Lucky for us, the apartment is still ours for 12 days.
Rocco wears a pin every day that labels him a Global Warmer. I have one of those pins, too. I'm going to dig it out and wear it tomorrow. While I pretend my Smart is a Morgan.
Here they are now, we look across and see the soft lavender color of them:
