Five Years Ago Today...
May. 14th, 2009 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gerisullivanOn Friday, May 14, 2004, I got up early and drove from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
debgeisler and benveniste's home in Middleton to Country Bank in Brimfield. I allowed an extra half-hour for morning traffic into the Brimfield Antiques Show, but was still running most of 15 minutes late. Luckily, it didn't take the bank long to prepare the cashier's check I needed for that afternoon. I was soon on my way south on Route 19, headed to the property that would become Toad Woods in just a few more hours.
The final pre-purchase inspection went reasonably smoothly. My Realtor and I headed to the courthouse in Springfield where we met up with my lawyer, the seller's lawyer, and the closer. My lawyer then filed the deed with the courthouse and Toad Woods was officially mine. Well, mine and the mortgage company's.
The futon I'd ordered wasn't in yet. The bunk bed store sent me away with a plastic encased loaner mattress...a youth mattress that was the most uncomfortable mattress I ever remember sleeping on. Before the weekend was over, I'd bought an inflata-bed. That proved to be a superior solution and I kept sleeping on it until my furniture was delivered a few weeks later.
Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after closing, the Charter Guy was here to install my high-speed internet. Here are the first two posts from Toad Woods.
I still like it here. Even more than I did then, which reflects the core fact of the matter: while the last five years have been far from easy, they have been good.
Now if I could just get around to unpacking the last of the boxes...
debgeisler and benveniste's home in Middleton to Country Bank in Brimfield. I allowed an extra half-hour for morning traffic into the Brimfield Antiques Show, but was still running most of 15 minutes late. Luckily, it didn't take the bank long to prepare the cashier's check I needed for that afternoon. I was soon on my way south on Route 19, headed to the property that would become Toad Woods in just a few more hours.The final pre-purchase inspection went reasonably smoothly. My Realtor and I headed to the courthouse in Springfield where we met up with my lawyer, the seller's lawyer, and the closer. My lawyer then filed the deed with the courthouse and Toad Woods was officially mine. Well, mine and the mortgage company's.
The futon I'd ordered wasn't in yet. The bunk bed store sent me away with a plastic encased loaner mattress...a youth mattress that was the most uncomfortable mattress I ever remember sleeping on. Before the weekend was over, I'd bought an inflata-bed. That proved to be a superior solution and I kept sleeping on it until my furniture was delivered a few weeks later.
Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after closing, the Charter Guy was here to install my high-speed internet. Here are the first two posts from Toad Woods.
I still like it here. Even more than I did then, which reflects the core fact of the matter: while the last five years have been far from easy, they have been good.
Now if I could just get around to unpacking the last of the boxes...
