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@@ -10,13 +10,20 @@ structure loss... the count of destroyed homes is over 500.
 
 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
@@ -48,6 +55,20 @@ were directly fighting the fire on and around our property:
 
 ### 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.