The Stapleton Family

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Sorry for letting the blog go a little stale I have been busy working on the new Stapleton Mansion.  If I have not been traveling, working, or at church I have been working at the house.  It is coming along nicely although we are having a bit of an ordeal getting the kitchen ordered.  But I am feeling much better now that I have resided myself to the fact that when we move in, our kitchen will be freshly painted with a new floor and all of our new appliances hooked up with no cabinets or sink.  I seem to deal better this way.   Home Depot has just really dropped the ball on this project.  The basement room walls are up and studded I hope to hang some drywall next week once the plumbers get done (I don’t do plumbing) and we get the electric ran.  We had a painting party last weekend and did not get as much done as I had hoped but my garage looks very very nice.  You have to have your priorities you know!  As far as work goes busy as usual I was in Indianapolis much of last week at our annual customer conference.  Jess started back to school last week and already has papers do.  Fun  fun  fun. Once this move is over I am looking forward to life getting back to just plain old  “busy”  instead of being “freakin busy” all the time .

Well just wanted to catch everyone up it’s 1:00 AM and I am going to bed have a great week everyone!

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Just wanted to let everyone know that we have a closing date on the house! We will be closing at 4:00 this Friday. That gives us 49 days to do the demolition, construction, re-model, & oh and I nearly forgot move! With my business travel it will be tight but I am confident that we will be able to make it. Lots of busy time ahead but also a lot of quality power tool time and you just can not beat that. I will post some pics later have a good one.

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Well, I normally do not do little posts like this but I thought I would share my morning exercise with you. The morning started out like any other I took Petey out so he could go to the bathroom. Then I hear hooves and turn around. In the middle of my road about 3 feet from me a fawn skids to a stop. The fawn and I look at each other, both a little startled. Then Petey sees the fawn. There they stand face to face, about 6 feet apart (all of a sudden I started hearing The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Theme in my head). Petey and the fawn lock eyes (I would imagine that Petey is thinking “big brown dog”! The fawn is probably thinking “too small to be a hunter”!). Petey starts to run toward the fawn (Jack Russell’s are hunting dogs ya know.) as it loops around me and around Petey and starts running down the road toward the Jehovah’s Witness Temple at the end of our road.

Now this is the funny part if you were looking out the living room window of the town house 2 units down from us this is what you saw. Please keep in mind that the town house in question is recessed and has a very narrow field of view, like a set of horse blinders. So, if they were observing the morning sunrise, they saw a 4 foot tall fawn running down the middle of the road, running from a 18 inch high dog, both being chased by an overweight mouse jockey in Birkenstocks. I know I would have been laughing my head off. Have a good one Jake.

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Just wanted to drop a quick note to let everyone know that the home inspection went very well and unless the house does not appraise, its ours. To be honest, I see no way that the house will not appraise so the deal is done in my mind. So now I have to work up some pricing for improvements that I am going to add into the loan to finish out the house. I am also trying to move the closing date up. There is a lot of construction that will need to take place before we move in at the end of September. With the exception of the kitchen, I am going to be doing most the work myself and with the help of family. So looks like I have a rough 60 days ahead. But I feel that the Lord has taken great care of me and Jess and provided this home for us, so I know it (and I) will be taken care of during the process.