I'm writing this blog from sunny Las Vegas where we arrived a couple of days ago, so obviously I'm a little behind, but I'll try to remember what our last week in Idaho looked like and piece a little story together! 

It did bring us some more (light but continues) rain, about a whole day of it, and 2 days of very low hanging clouds. It was pretty much dark the whole day, very gloomy .. 

But afterward everything emerged refreshed and clean ..

     

The walnuts were especially striking, when the sun back-lit their bright yellow leaves ..

The house was all of a sudden quickly nearing it's completion, with everything happening and coming together at the same time. The ceiling of the carport went in .. painted sky-blue! Not our cup-of-tea but 'to each it's own' I guess ..

All the bathrooms got finished. this is the guest-one:

 

And this next one is the shower in the master (the rest was already finished). I like the pebbles on the floor ..

    

This is the Master bedroom:

And this is the laundry room, with the washer and dryer installed and working:  

               

The beautiful walnut stairs got a handrail ..

                                               

All the kitchen appliances went in and all the plumbing was taken care of.
The roof-fascia on the back over the deck was finished, as well as some miscellaneous metal strips that were on back-order, but had arrived last week.

 

There's still some stuff to do but Austin and Lee should be able to do those 'finishing touches'. They'll stay on our payroll for another week and after that it's Sam's responsibility. James will be available for questions for a while longer, until it's all done, but other than that this job will be finished!

We'd planned to leave on Saturday (the 24th) but the weather forecast showed a storm coming in with  frost and snow at higher elevations, so we decided to move our departure to Friday. (Sam, Ryan and Ronnie already left on Wednesday).

With the usual crunch to get everything packed and wrapped up we managed to get out of there at 12.30, about an hour later than we had hoped, but at least it had warmed up a little because that morning it was a chilly 27F!

                                  

                                 Brrr! Las Vegas here we come!

 

Well, that was pretty much what happened. I think. After James walked Austin and Lee through an extensive punch-list, we all said our goodbyes, which included a cuddle for Mahogany ..  (wow, hasn't she grown?!)

 

And on the road we went! Goodbye Wet Gulch, goodbye Salmon River! We will miss you!