December 4th!  Praise Jeebus, we finally have a closing date.

It's starting to look like a real house finally.

Miss Mems.

 

The fireplace is TALL! I'm actually shorter than the top of it.

Garage.

Two-thirds of the awesome pantry. 

Hallway.

That space on the right will be kitchen.  I'm sitting on the fireplace here.

 

 

 

And this little dude is visiting us for a few weeks. He's Emma's science teacher's and they're on fall break. He's an Arizona Desert Tortoise. They only get to be about the size our six year-old sulcata is now.  Bailey the sulcata will be around 200 pounds in a few years. 

 

 

Bailey and Lightning, a comparison. They can't hang together though, awwww, how sad.  Bailey would try to eat him and I'm pretty sure Mr. Science Teacher didn't lend him to us to serve as a Bailey snack.

 

 

Spiky tortoise buttocks.