Officially the owner of 2 homes/properties now - until our current home sells of course. It isn't listed yet. The photographer came by on Thursday afternoon to take photos of the house. It should be officially listed on mls by Tuesday, since Monday is a holiday.
We took my in-laws to the property yesterday to have a look. There is a lot of work to be done there that is for sure. The previous owner left some unwanted items and garbage behind, we took care of that today. He came back to clean the rest up.
Hubby and my 11-yr old went over today to start cleaning up some of the trees and brush. 2 truckloads to the dump already. Thank goodness for friends, because we'll need  lots of help in the next few months. We have a lot of big trees on the lot that will need to come down because they are in the way of where we are building the house. My hubby works with an arborist who came by today and had a look. He said that he can drop the trees in the yard, no problem. This is good news.

My hubby is set on having a word burning stove in the house. I don't care for them. I don't like the idea of fire in the house, don't like the smell of wood burning or smoke.
I actually did some research into Gasification Wood Burning Furnaces. They can go outside or in a shop or garage. The basically are wood fed, and can be used as stand alone units or in combination with your existing forced air system. They can heat your house, water, pool, hot tub...whatever. Pretty need actually. And it would give us a good start at reducing our carbon foot print. I'm sure it must cost a fortune but I'd be interested in checking it out. http://www.woodheating.ca/ There are all kinds of information online about it but this is one of the Canadian based companies.

Well hopefully by this time next year we'll be doing Thanksgiving dinner in our new house.