The last day of 2013 and we are still in limbo. We tried several times to call the sales lady as she was supposed to be in the sales office. The first 6 times she didn't answer so we were convinced that she had gotten caller ID and was ducking us. One last try at 5:40, the office closes at 6:00 and she answered. We asked our questions, most of which she couldn't answer. She did tell us that the lots were cleared and since they have spent the money on that they will want/need to get them sold. She keeps asking and keeps being told that she will be the first to find out. Then she tells us that when she is told we will be the first to find out. We did find out that between two of the lots there will be a bike path down to the Loveland bike trail. We were currently planning to head down January 17 - 20, but now we are not sure if this will be of any good. She said that we could go through the design center, but choices could be changed at any time. I asked if there was still a chance for us to be in our new house by the end of August. I could hear her counting the months and said that there is still a chance, but I wonder how likely that is. Douglas starts full time on campus August 24 so he would not be able to help us move. He said that he would come up for a long weekend to get somedifficult things moved out of the basement and to take some things apart, like our bed. We don't have to have the light bridge, but it is handy. We can keep somethings in the living room and some in the garage. We will hire movers to move everything into the truck, drive the truck down then come back up for the rest. Since there is the uncertainty of when this house will sell and when the other house will be ready we were trying to figure that out. One thought was moving twice, that was my blood pressure going up. We would need a 3 bedroom place so that each of us had a place to work, and we would have to put a lot into storage. But we can't put the big loom into storage in a place that isn't climate controlled. So maybe instead of two moves we will look into a bridge loan. Mary gave us the name of a person in their organization to contact. I like that much better than moving twice. The sales lady has decided that I can teach crafts classes there. I told her that I can teach basket weaving. Teaching weaving if people don't have looms is an issue. I suppose that I should feel better about this, but I still need a firm date. So much more stuff to go through. Happy New Year.

Ah, something is actually happening. Yesterday I decided that I needed a day of rest after having company, cooking, baking and picking up after everyone left. I was cruising around on the internet looking at different things. One thing that I was looking for was other 55+ communities in Northern Kentucky. So far nothing that I like and they don't have the prices listed. I also wonder if Denise is licenced to practice in Kentucky. I found the Drees Design Center. This is where we will go when we make our choices for the house. I thought that maybe they had cabinets, flooring, etc on line. Well no luck, but you could sign up for a newsletter. I figured no harm I could always cancel if we decided to build elsewhere. Shortly after that I got an email that was clearly auto generated since it was addressed to: Dear No Name Listed. Haha. I pretty much ignored it and went on, then I got another one. This one asking me where I was interested in building. I explained our whole situation with the STILL no lot after being promised that we would choose one in August. This morning I got a real email from Chris, the person who is the website contact. She was forwarding it to Mary at Heritage. I also heard from Mary. She told us that the area has been cleared but they have not done anything else due to weather. HUH? it hasn't been bad there, they have been warmer than us. We decided that it was time to call Mary, but we put a call into Denise first. Duh, its Saturday, she is busy so I left a message and then forwarded the emails and put in an explanation. We went out for lunch and picked up a shirt for Douglas. When we got home there was a message from Denise. She said to go ahead and call Mary. There we were with our list of questions on the timeline. We called and got Connie, Mary is off until next Tuesday. She did tell us that the area was cleared and as far as she knew the permits were in place. We will call next Tuesday and maybe get a timeline for the building and moving. In the meantime I am creating pinterest boards for different design ideas for the new house. Keep tuned, the story changes every day.

We heard from the sales person at Herritage at Miami Bluffs. She sent an email asking if there was anything that she could do for us. Robert answered "Yes, you can get us a lot." In the meantime our real estate agent called to purchase two of my crinkle scarves. I mentioned this email to her. She said that she would call Mary and find out what is going on. Then we hear back from Mary. It turns out that she didn't really email us, that was an auto generated email with her name on it. There was nothing new, but she "hoped that we would be in our new house in 2014." OK, that statement didn't fill me with hope. It sounds as if she doesn't think that this is going to be happening. Douglas and Michelle were up for Christmas. The running gag all week was how many more years it would be before we moved. I got a new set of pots and pans and a cookboo holder. These will be unopened until we move into the new house. Again, how long until that happens. My sister Cindy called on Christmas after discussing all sorts of other things we talked aobut the house and when we will be moving. She told me that if they do not have a plat map at this point nothing has gone to the planning commission and it will be 3 years minimum before we will be moving in. She sent me a link to a few different 55+ communities in Northern Kentucky. I don't really want to move to Kentucky, Douglas and Michelle will be living north of the city and while I don't want to be across the street, I would like to be within 12 miles of where they live. However if Drees cannot get their act together maybe we should look into that. I will have to find out if Denise is licenced to practice real estate in Kentucky. We are currently planning to go down the 3rd weekend in January. If Drees hasn't come through I guess that we could start to look elsewhere.

Well, we got more news, and its not bad, but not good. They have started to clear trees for the lots and nothing else. It seems that they are awaiting county approval. Oh dear county approval means governament and obviously they didn't already have the approval in place. As of now we are planning to go down the weekend of January 17 to make choices and hopefully sign something. For now there is nothing that we can do except wait.