The Great Fort Myers House
Closing Quest!
April 2006
Wednesday 19 April 2006
Day 3
I love my new house
- WOO HOO!
I am sorry but I am having technical difficulties with my laptop right now, and
I'm unable to upload pics. This is very frustrating to me, as I took lots of
pics and want to share them with everyone I know.
Suffice it to say that the house looks grand, and I can't wait to move in! I am
really pleased with how I did picking the colors and the tiles and all. The only
thing that MUST GO is the color of the front door. It is some shade of burgundy,
and totally does not go with the rest of my color palette. I was forced to take
it, however, because they give you this whole exterior color package - the
walls, the trim, the roof, and the front door. And some person with NO TASTE AT
ALL put a weird colored front door in the package with the rest of the colors
that I like. But I have the name of the painter, and will get it changed just as
soon as I can.
The workmanship is great. A couple of minor things need fixing (scratches here
and there on cabinets, and on one of the bathroom mirrors), but that will get
done before I close next week.
I talked to a mover today, and it looks like I will be able to load the truck on
the 10th of May. As soon as that is all confirmed and squared away, I will book
the auto train, and away I go!
WOO HOO!
After finishing the walk thru, I "went west" - well, as far west as I could go
without a parking permit and still be on West Gulf Drive. That would be Gulfside
City Park. Still lots of bits, a few more kibbles, and only 4-5 gastropods,
small. The rest of the kibbles were largely small-ish cockles, but I'm getting
sick of picking up cockles, so I started picking up jingles, which seem to be in
fair quantity at Gulfside. Oh, and I found an operculum! It's about an inch and
a half long. When I first picked it up, I didn't quite know what it was, but
then it hit me - some little guy lost his trap door, and now it's sitting on a
towel on the bathroom sink with the rest of them, drying out.
I also found a nice sized mac-n-cheese. I was doing the random squat thing along
the cruncher line, and saw a bit of orange poking from the sand. "Nah!" I
thought - "Can't be!". Well, I turned it over and it was whole and nice! So, the
moral of the story is, even if you think it's just a piece poking up out of the
sand, turn it over anyway, 'cause you just never know, do ya?
By "turn it over", I mean poke the toe of your water shoe under the piece and
push up and over, to expose the whole thing and see if it really is something
before you go to the trouble of bending over to pick it up. Also, squat randomly
- getting down there at eye level takes the pressure off your back and neck, and
you see things you would not normally notice from your full height.
The Nanny is still here, but I think she is losing steam. She is, however, a
pain in the butt to clean out of the net-on-a-stick. Fortunately, Gulfside has a
powerful foot wash - it's not a little shower type thing, but a forceful jet, so
that made it a bit easier to clean all the red tendrils away. Normally I rinse
each shell in the Gulf before putting it in my bag, but with the Nanny still
hovering, that's sorta useless - you might rinse the sand out, but pieces of the
Nanny still cling. So it's good to use beaches that have a shell cleaning
station (Holiday Inn has one, behind the Tiki Bar), or else beaches that have a
foot wash/shower thing.
Tomorrow, I work from the hotel. Hoping to get out for a few walks on the beach,
maybe before work and for a break later on. The sucky low tide times will
continue until Saturday, when we will have a nice friendly one at 3:01 PM. The
new moon is not until the 27th, which is the day I head back to Long Island, so
I can't expect much help there.
OK, gonna hit the sack soon, will try to resolve my computer issues and get some
pics posted soon.