"You can't always get what you want," I was downstairs weaving and things were just not going well. I kept making mistakes and wondered if this was a good idea. Then the phone rang, this is when you hear the "dum, dum, dum" that you get in movies. It was Denise, our very patient and understanding real estate agent. Oh dear, I could tell by the tone of her "hello" that this was not a happy call. So we talked about how cold it was instead. It isn't quite as cold there as here, but their houses and infrastructure are not built for the cold that they have right now. Both places are having the snowiest and coldest Januaries on record. This is not good news for the road building. so finally we got the nerve to discuss what she had called about. She spoke to Mary the sales lady yesterday. Yeah, not good news. She cannot write any contracts until the roads are in and they won't start to put the roads in until sometime in March. Sigh, this pushes our dates back to moving in sometime from mid September to mid November. Well, after I finish with the Common Ground Art Fair I would be ready to up and go. Mary is going to ask the highers up in Drees if there is any way that she can sell the lots before the roads are in so that we can start the design process. This way then once the roads are in and the lots ready they can start building. Here's hoping that those in positions of power will see reason. We have three weekends in February that we can go down there then two weekends that we can't. We really wanted to have this all done in February. Then because this wasn't enough Mary told Denise that they are not going to be doing much in the way of negotiations. She did mention $60,000.00 in upgrades for $30,000.00, but it might be $50,000.00 for $25,000.00. Either way, that isn't bad, we had hoped to get basically $80,000.00 for $40,000.00, but we can make this work. We have decided to go with UPack for the move and hire Labor Ready for loading and unloading. They can take up to two days to get the truck to us so we are figuring out what to do for those two days. We will pack a bin with essentials and wait for the truck. We had thought about staying with Douglas and Michelle, but Baron could be an issue with two dogs. At first we were going to borrow their airbed, but now I have decided that if Douglas and Michelle can get the futon to us we can sleep on that. So we have the move figured out, now we just need a place to move to.