Now that we are moving into our new home one of our regular viewers asked for some photos showing how the home looks with furniture and such accoutrements of life. Here are some recent photos showing a lived-in look and a few of the extras you always have to do to a new home once you move in.

We rounded up some of the furniture from our corner storage and arranged it in the living room. Bookcases were filled with boxes of books carefully chosen on the basis of the box in front of the pile. The piano probably needs tuning after two years in storage. We each have a desk on opposite sides of the room with Internet wiring and such. In this photo Logan is arranging the dining table.

This is another view of the living room showing Logan's corner.

There is a nice lounging space with a rug and rocking chair.

This is another view of Logan's corner.

Here is a view from the kitchen.

Ours is the only house I've ever seen with overhead crane service in the dining room. We installed an I beam on the roof with a hoist and a 3x4 foot platform and cage. It's the only practical way to get the rest of our stuff up to our storage mezzanine.

This is the hoist in up position on the mezzanine.

We installed some storage shelving on the mezzanine. And we've begun hauling our extra junk up here. It needs to get out of the way to begin finishing the rest of the unfinished part of the house where it has been stored for a few months now.

Here is another view of the storage shelves. Some are open, and some have doors.

The kitchen is still cluttered with stuff that doesn't go anywhere yet. It takes time to sort it all out.

We installed a row of irrigation and other piping in the utility closet. Red handles are water. Black handles are compressed air. We can blow out the outside water pipes in the fall (an annual task where pipes freeze) by turning an air valve handle.

Outside we installed a row of electric valves for sprinklers. We can't water the whole 20 acres but a few feet of green around the house will be nice and keep possible forest fires back some feet.

Each corner has a hose spigot and a sprinkler. There are more sprinklers every 25 feet in-between. They water out about 30 feet or so from the house.

Just when you thought we could put away the shovels. Underground piping was laid after the foundation wall and before it was backfilled as shown in some previous pages. It seems that our concrete floor crew staked one of our pipes while installing a board across the front door to keep the concrete from pouring out. Dig...dig...dig. Here you can see the piece of broken pipe, the one with the hole and crack, laid next to the repaired section.

Out across the parking lot our RV dump station now has water and compressed air for tires or whatever.

Now that the house is finished and we have moved in, or at least phase 1 is finished, my son Justin left Washington to go back to New Mexico where his brothers and his high school friends still live. We just have our own cars lined up in front of the house now. Almost lonely.

That's enough photos for one page.