A lot of things are finally coming together. By mid July the pool deck and been put down, the fence was put up and the equipment was installed (it took a little while longer to get a leak in the plumbing fixed). The construction was largely finished with several smaller things to get finished up or fixed. In the third week of July we had all new carpet installed along with tile in some of the downstairs. Right at the beginning of August we had landscapers come in and shape the ground, create a planting and walking area in front, plant a number of plants in back and on the side, clean up a lot of the remaining weeds, and fill in the area under the decks. We worked on doing the rather precise borders for the driveway/parking and will have it filled with pea gravel in the near future.
But one of the biggest new items is that we put down a contract on a second house in Duck! It is an oceanfront house that is on Sea Tern Drive in the Northern part of Duck about 2 miles up Duck Road. We have started doing a lot of things for that purchase and hope to go to settlement sometime in mid September.