Our property is on an edge of the burn area, so while we lost the house,
greenhouse, and one of our sheds... our other shed and many of our trees
-survived. So we quickly decided to re-build on the same property, and hope
-the new house will be ready by late summer 2014. In the meantime, we're
-living in an apartment in nearby Colorado Springs.
+survived. So we quickly decided to re-build on the same property, and hoped
+a new house would be ready by late summer 2014. In the meantime, we leased
+a 2-bedroom apartment in nearby Colorado Springs.
+
+We slept for the first time in our wonderful new house on 27 September 2014.
+
+If you want to hear more about our experience, feel free to view the video
+of Bdale's
+[talk at Linux Conf Australia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJcnllq3VYY)
+about the fire and some of the lessons we learned.
###Helping###
-For those of you who have asked how you can help us restore and rebuild,
+For those of you who asked how you could help us restore and rebuild,
thank you. We put together several wishlists and a registries of items we
needed to get started in the apartment, all of which were quickly and
completely filled. We are extremely grateful to have so many kind and
### Journal ###
+* 2014 October 3<br>Finished cleaning up the apartment and associated garages,
+ and turned in those keys.
+* 2014 September 27<br>Began to move out of the apartment and in to our new
+ house! We're home!
+* 2014 September 25<br>Our builder passed his final inspection with regional
+ building! A list of final (mostly cosmetic) details to finish up,
+ then we can move in.
+* 2014 July 31<br>Hardwood floors are in, tile floors are in process, finish
+ electrical has started, trim material in the process of being stained.
+* 2014 June 10<br>Rough-in inspections for plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and
+ so forth all completed... on to insulation!
+* 2014.May 8<br>Exterior doors and windows in, roofing begun,
+ duct work underway.
+* 2014.April 26<br>Concrete slabs for basement and garage floor poured.
* 2014 April 9<br>Roof trusses installed.
* 2014 March 25<br>Framing started.
* 2014 March 14<br>Concrete poured for the foundation / basement walls.