Walls! We have walls!!!

So we had our "pre-drywall walk through" Friday morning with Steve. It basically amounted to Steve saying "See, here's insulation. Here's some power outlets;" and us saying "Yep, that looks like insulation to me. Yep, that appears to be an outlet of some type." We also were supposed to make sure that all of the options we selected were in place so far--which they all were, except for the hole to vent the range hood to the outside and the extra faucet outside the house. Steve assured that was all stuff that was supposed to be done in the finishing stages. Steve said the drywall was the next step, and that it would take about 5 days, and then he would e-mail us with his estimated completion date. So we said everything looks good and went on our way after about 10 minutes.

When I came home early Friday evening, there was a van in our "driveway" and they were hanging the drywall in the garage! As I drove on by I was able to see through the front door that they had drywall up in the front room, too! We tried to go by later that evening (while it was still light so I could get some pictures--that house gets awfully dark at night with no lights), and they were still working. We drove by a couple of times on Saturday while running various errands, but they were there working again (not that I'm complaining about them working, I just wanted to get in and get some shots of the in-between stages).

But here we are now, we finally have walls!!!

A shot of the living room/dining room towards to front door (and boy do I love that cathedral ceiling!)

A shot of the kitchen area (with the hole in the wall for venting the range hood to the outside)

Besides the walls (or more likely, perhaps because of the walls), we also have a our first fly. Perhaps we should give him a name and make him our mascot, since he is apparently the first thing to actually live in our house? (Although we have also seen a cat skulking around in the evenings.)