First night on board!

Greetings on Memorial weekend to everyone! Giving a few thoughts to the men and women of the generations before us who personally sacrificed for what we as a nation hold dear.  And thinking of the new young American men and women around the world on the front lines tonight,...thank you for your commitment.  Driving from McLean to Lake Anna, we pass through two major battlefields of the US Civil War (Chancellorsville and Wilderness) and I always reflect on the courage of both sides, while dreading the cost in huge battle casualties (Wilderness: US killed & wounded - 18,000, Confederate killed & wounded, 10,800).  Just some memorials on this day...

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So, we are moved in, having spent the Memorial weekend at the house!  Kinda like luxury camping while we figure out what we need and what we forgot that a brand new house needs. Continuing to wrap up the details of the house finishing and the grounds refinement.  We were rained out last week on gravel delivery for the driveway, so hoping for gravel and hydro-seeding this week...

First time seeing the house at night.  The 17-year cicadas are incessant during the day with the droning squeal, but fortunately calm down at night.

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Camille getting in some early evening archery practice with her recurve on the future front lawn...she's very good, I don't recommend crossing her.

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We pulled "Phantom", our Jet 14 sailboat (built the same year as me, 1967) out of the winter underbrush.  Here, after a wash down, she is poised to enter her new protective home in the basement.

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A view of the "boathouse" basement.  This side of the basement will eventually be the workshop and tractor area, with the boats moving to the other side of the basement once we get the other double-doors installed.

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We are turning-to on the bedroom paintings in order to get the carpet installs underway.

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Next: landscaping & driveway